What are the folk activities of the Lantern Festival

Previously celebrate the Lantern Festival are people spontaneously on the streets, in the lively streets set up a variety of lanterns for visitors to choose, there are a variety of riddles to increase the popularity of the activity is also very lively. Now we will review, what are the folk activities of the Lantern Festival, the following is a small number of carefully recommended folk activities of the Lantern Festival, I hope to be able to help you.

Folk activities

1, eat Lantern Festival

New Year's Eve to eat Lantern Festival, in China has a long history. Song Dynasty, the folk have been popular on a Lantern Festival to eat novelty food. This Yuanxiao food was first called? Floating Yuanzi? After the name? Lantern? The businessman called it "Yuanbao". Yuanbao. Nowadays? Yuanxiao? is? Tangyuan? The filling is made of sugar, bean paste, sesame, yellow osmanthus, rose, jujube paste, nuts, walnuts, etc. It is wrapped in glutinous rice flour and formed into a round ball, which can be vegetarian or non-vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, steamed or deep-fried, and has the meaning of reunion and happiness. Shaanxi dumplings are not wrapped, but are made in layers of glutinous rice flour. It is rolled in layers of glutinous rice flour. into, or boiled or fried, heralding the relatives of hot, hot, and reunion.

2, the lamp

Han Ming Emperor Yongping years (AD 58 - 75), because Emperor Ming advocate Buddhism, coinciding with the return of Cai _ from India to seek the Buddha, said India Moju country every year on the 15th of the first month, the monks gathered, to see the relics of the Holy Buddha, is a good time to participate in the Buddha's auspicious day. So Han Mingdi in order to promote Buddhism, the order of the first month of the fifteenth night, the palace and the temple are ? Burning lamp table Buddha? From then on, the Lantern Lantern custom by the original only held in the palace and spread to the people. That is, every year on the fifteenth day of the first month, whether the scholarly family or the common people have to hang lamps, urban and rural all-night lights.

The custom of hanging lanterns on the first night of the lunar calendar developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty, when Chang'an, the capital, was the world's largest city with a population of one million people and an affluent life. In the emperor personally advocate, Lantern Festival naturally do more and more luxurious. By the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it had developed into a national carnival. Tang Xuanzong (A.D. 685 - 762) period of the Kaiyuan period, Chang'an lamp market scale is very large, burning lamps up to 50,000, lanterns in a variety of styles, the emperor made a giant lamp building, as wide as 20 rooms, 150 feet high, bright gold, very spectacular.

In the Song Dynasty, Lantern Festival Lantern Festival in both the scale or light decoration of the fantasy exquisite, are better than the Tang Dynasty, and the activities are more folk, national characteristics stronger. Lantern Festival through the development of successive generations, the Lantern Festival is held longer and longer. Tang Dynasty Lantern Festival is? One day before and after the fifteenth? , the Song Dynasty added two days after the sixteen, and the Ming Dynasty added five days in front, from the first nine to eighteen whole ten days.

3, welcome to the purple aunt

The purple aunt legend is a good folk girl. On the fifteenth day of the first month of a certain year, Zigu died of poverty. The people therefore sympathize with her, miss her, some places then appeared? On the fifteenth day of the first month to welcome the purple nun? The custom of welcoming Zigu on the fifteenth day of the first month appeared in some places. Every night, people use straw, cloth, etc. tied into a life-size purple nun model. Women stood by the kitchen, pigsties and toilets where Zigu often did her work to greet her, treating her like their own sisters, holding her hand, saying sweet words to her and comforting her with tears in their eyes. The scene was very vivid, reflecting the true ideological feelings of the laboring people who were loyal, kind and sympathetic to the weak.

4, go a hundred diseases

Lunar New Year's Lantern Festival in addition to celebrations, there are activities of a faith-based nature. That is? Walking the hundred diseases? also known as? Roasted hundred diseases, scattered hundred diseases? Most of the participants are women, they walk in groups, or walk along the wall, or across the bridge, or across the countryside, the purpose is to drive away the disease and eliminate disasters.

With the development of history, the Lantern Festival celebrations are more and more, many local festivals added to the dragon lanterns, stilt walkers, lions, twisting rice-planting songs, rowing the dry boat, playing the drums and other activities.

5, rat

This is mainly the activities of the family of sericulture. As the mouse often eat the whole piece of silkworms in the night, they heard that the first day of the first month of the 15th, with rice porridge to feed the mouse, it will not eat silkworms. Therefore, they are in the night of the first month of the fifteenth night, boiled on a large pot of porridge, some also sprinkled a layer of meat foam on top, with a bowl full of porridge, placed to the rat frequented places, such as corners, roofs, etc., and the mouth also read the words, cursing the rat if you eat silkworms again, it will not be a good death.

Customs around the Lantern Festival

1, Beijing

The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. The annual Shangyuan Lantern Festival, dragon and lion dances, old Beijing hawking and other traditional programs of the Lantern Festival that are full of old Beijing's folklore are a big reason why old Beijingers look forward to this festival. The traditional Old Beijing Lantern Festival events mainly consist of 3 parts: the flower show, the lantern show, and the eating of the Lantern Festival.

2, Hebei Province

Hebei more unique Lantern Festival customs are Jingfu pull flowers, Jingfu pull flowers is a strain of ancient art oddball. Zanhuang County Lantern Festival custom pulling Thresher? , La Lu Thresher is a dance that expresses the labor life, the main activity in the Lantern Festival, it is accompanied by percussion. There are big drums, big gongs, cymbals, water cymbals and so on. On the Lantern Festival in Yongpingfu, women with illnesses gather under the kiln, called ? Tao Moxibustion. Children staggered bridge, said? Duo Bai'er? There are also people who cut paper into nine paper ropes and tie knots in order to divine the blame, called ? Knot sheep's intestines?

3, Anhui Province

Ancient city of Fengyang County, swinging, picking lanterns, put down the torch and other folk customs, into the Lantern Festival of the three major customs. Fengyang folk have? Lantern Festival swing, a year of back pain? The saying goes. Every Lantern Festival, the most exciting thing for children is to pick lanterns. Pick lanterns. Various kinds of lanterns have been put up a few days ago. The most important thing to do is to choose the lanterns. Listed, different shapes of lanterns will be decorated with a new night in the town of Fu. Putting down the torch is a kind of youth collective activity. In the rural areas of Fengyang, pay attention to the children will be early and consciously collect, ready to some of the old broom, brush, in preparation for the Lantern Festival put torch.

4, Shanxi Province

Hanging lanterns is a necessary form of celebrating the Lantern Festival in Shanxi. Whenever the Lantern Festival comes, every family hangs up all kinds of lights, from fourteen to sixteen, every night. Fireworks, for the people of Shanxi Lantern Festival is the most delightful activities, Lantern Festival night in the square to fireworks activities, when the whole family went out into the street, to see the beautiful fireworks. Literary street, known as folk culture makeup parade. From fourteen to sixteen, three consecutive days in various counties and districts are organized in various cultural performances to the city.

5, Shandong Province

Juggling activities is an important part of the Lantern Festival. Various forms of juggling, lion dance, dragon lantern dance, stilts, dry boat, flower stick, rice-planting songs, catch donkey? There should be everything, the content of the main opera. Qufu city around the village village to play dragon lanterns, each village's dragon lanterns to perform in the Confucius Palace. Kongfu play dragon lantern place in the second door in front of the hall, usually not allowed to enter the Kongfu, this time also allows outsiders to enter to see the play dragon lantern. When the dragon lanterns are played, the officials of the Kongfu and the Firecracker household? In the side of the fireworks.

Lantern Festival riddles

Entry level

Riddles:

1, feet small, legs high, wearing a red hat, wearing a white robe (playing an animal name)

2, green vines hanging all over the shed, the result is like a green dragon, when young when the vegetables to eat, the old is also useful (playing a melon)

3, small fat dolls covered with hair, the pink layer of a good taste (playing a fruit)

3, small fat dolls all hair, pink layer good taste (playing a) Fruit)

4, white fat doll lying in the mud, waist thin heart more (playing a vegetable)

Riddle:

1, dandelion

2, loofah

3, peaches

4, lotus root

silver level

Riddle:

1, Zhishen plucked down the hanging willows, the Wukong dismissed the crowds of Monkey (playing five-character idiom)

2. Huashan Sect? Six monkeys? s unique view (playing an idiom)

3, monkey head (playing an idiom)

4, Wu Sung beat the tiger, the monkey fishing for the moon (playing an idiom)

Riddle:

1, the tree toppled monkeys scattering a sinking ship

2, a great deal of insight

3, cited and applied

4, catching the wind and the shadow