What are the customs of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month?

Customs of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month are stilt walking, lion dance, rowing a dry boat, lanterns, guessing riddles, playing dragon lanterns, welcoming the purple nuns, sending children lamps, twisting rice-planting songs and so on.

1, stilt walking.

The stilt-walking is a popular mass skill performance program. Stilts as early as the Spring and Autumn Period has appeared, the performers will be long wood tied to the legs walking, but also jumping and sword dance, the highest stilts up to more than ten feet high, they sing while acting, lively, laughter, such as walking on the ground.

2, lion dance.

Lion dance, also one of China's best folk art, every festival or gathering, people will be lion dance to cheer. The custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and became popular in the North and South Dynasties, and has a history of more than a thousand years.

3, rowing dry boat.

Rowing dry boat, also known as running dry boat, is in the bamboo and wood tied into a colorful boat set in the body, on land to imitate the movement of the boat, and then sing some local ditties, singing and dancing, is rowing dry boat. This custom, legend has it, is to commemorate the Great Yu water.

4, lanterns.

During the Yongping years of Emperor Mingdi of Han Dynasty, in order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Mingdi of Han Dynasty ordered to "burn lanterns for Buddha" in the palace and temples on the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month. Since then, the custom of releasing lanterns on the Lantern Festival has spread to the people. On the fifteenth day of the first month, both the scholars and the common people would put up lanterns, and the whole city would be illuminated all night long.

5, guess the lantern riddle.

Guessing lantern riddles, also known as playing lantern riddles, is the Lantern Festival later derived from a word game. The earliest appeared in the Song Dynasty, good people to write riddles on paper strips, pasted on the colorful lanterns for people to guess. So it is called "guessing lantern riddles".