What are the customs of Anhui Lantern Festival?

The customs of Anhui Lantern Festival include: eating Yuanxiao, eating lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, playing with dragon lanterns and setting off fireworks.

1, eat Yuanxiao

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", contains sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors.

2. lanterns

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, because there are customs such as hanging lanterns, lighting lanterns and watching lanterns. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual lantern fireworks. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called "Lantern Festival". In Shanxi's county-level city walls and even towns and villages, these residents are concentrated in busy and lively areas. Before the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets were covered with lanterns, flowers were everywhere and lights were swaying, which reached its climax on the fifteenth night of the first month.

Step 3 solve the riddle on the lantern

Solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is a unique form of traditional folk entertainment with rich national style in China. It is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival that has been circulated since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess.

Step 4 play with dragon lanterns

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 5 set off fireworks

Setting off fireworks is an ancient folk activity in China. Developed on the basis of gunpowder. At first, it was a pastime for nobles to compete for hegemony and luxury. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, fireworks production technology had a new development and gradually became a holiday gift.