What is the English introduction of Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuan Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival. It takes place in the first month of the lunar calendar 15. The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, rooted in the ancient custom of turning on the lights to pray for good luck.

Lantern Festival is mainly a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern parade, lion dance, walking on stilts, boating, yangko, beating gongs and drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on the lights to pray.

Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.

Lantern Festival customs

1, play the dragon lantern

Playing dragon lanterns, also known as dragon lanterns or dragon dancing. The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays. According to Sui Shu Le, Huanglongbian, which is similar to the dragon dance performance in Yang Di's hundred operas, is also very wonderful, and dragon dance is popular in many places in China. China worships dragons, and thinks that dragons are auspicious symbols.

Step 2 walk on stilts

Walking on stilts is a popular folk performance. Stilts, originally one of the hundred plays in ancient China, appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. China first introduced stilts in Liezi Fu Shuo: "There were orchids in the Song Dynasty, and they used their own skills to dry the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Summoned in the Song and Yuan Dynasties to see their skills.