Customs of the Lantern Festival What are the customs of the Lantern Festival?

The Lantern Festival began more than 2,000 years ago during the Han Dynasty, when Emperor Wen of Han celebrated the pacification of the Zhulu Rebellion by going out of the palace to play and have fun with the people at this time of the year. Later, when Sima Qian created the Taichu Calendar, he listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival. Inherited to this day there are also many customs passed down, the following I carefully organized 5 Lantern Festival customs, take a look at it.

1, eat the Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month to eat the Lantern Festival, "Lantern Festival" as a food, in China has a long history. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat novelty food. This food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully named "Yuanbao". Lanterns to sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, meat or vegetarian, different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried, steamed, and has the meaning of reunion. The north is called Lantern, the south is called dumplings.

2, send lanterns

Send lanterns is a traditional folk culture. That is, before the Lantern Festival, the mother's family to send lanterns to the newly married daughter's home, or general friends and relatives to the newly married family of infertile, in order to add Ding auspicious omen, because the "lights" and "Ding" resonance. This custom in many places, Xi'an, Shaanxi area is the first eight to fifteen during the first month to send lamps, the first year to send a pair of large lanterns, a pair of glass lamps with colorful paintings, hope that the daughter of the marriage of the lucky star, early birth of a child; such as the daughter of the pregnancy, in addition to the large lanterns, but also to send one or two pairs of small lanterns, wishing the daughter a safe pregnancy.

3, enjoy the moon

Lunar New Year's Eve, a full moon quietly climbed into the sky, the lively crowds of people flocked to the streets, calling friends and friends, enjoy the moon and talk about it, such a custom has been passed down for thousands of years.

The bright moon, like a mirror like a disk, warm as water, when the moonlight sprinkled on the earth, the lights and the moon, light and shadow, reflecting the fireworks and reunion on earth. On the Lantern Festival, people gather together to enjoy the bright moon and savor the Lantern Festival.

4, welcome the purple nun

Welcome the purple nun is a traditional Chinese folklore activities. Zigu is a kind and poor girl in Chinese folklore. On the 15th day of the first month, Zigu died of poverty. The people sympathized with her, missed her, and in some places the custom of "welcoming the purple nun on the fifteenth day of the first month" emerged. Every night on this day and night, people use straw, cloth, etc. tied into a life-size portrait of the purple nun. Women stood up to the toilet, pigsty and kitchen where Zigu often did her work to greet her, and treated her like a sister, holding her hand, saying sweet words to her and comforting her with tears in their eyes. The scene was very vivid, truly reflecting the ancient Chinese working people's goodness, loyalty, and sympathy for the weak and the weak.

5, walk a hundred diseases

Walk a hundred diseases, also known as the 'tour of a hundred diseases' 'scattered hundred diseases', etc., is a traditional folk culture in the north since the Ming and Qing dynasties, some in the first month of the fifteenth day, but more on the Some of them are held on the 15th day of the first month, but most of them are held on the 16th day of the first month. On this day, women dressed in festive costumes, groups of people out of the house, walk the bridge across the danger, climbed the city, touching the nails to seek a son, until midnight, to return.

Walking for a hundred diseases, spread in the northern regions of China, especially in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi Province, is a kind of excursion to walk to eliminate a hundred diseases of a fitness exercise, mostly among women, the elderly, children or the infirm. This activity was initially limited to women, and has been gradually promoted to the elderly, small children and sickly people.

The Lantern Festival has been passed down because the meaning of the festival is reunion and harmony, which are what we aspire to and what we hope for. Above I organized 5 customs, if you have to add or want to say welcome to leave a message in the comments below to discuss.