What are the customs about the Lantern Festival?

1. Lantern viewing is an ancient folk culture in China. Generally, activities are held on the Lantern Festival, which literally means watching lanterns. During the period of Shun Di in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling, a native of Pei Guofeng, held a "Lantern Festival" ceremony in Hemingshan, Sichuan, which is the oldest known primitive Lantern Festival.

2. Boating, also known as "driving ghosts by boat", is a folk activity popular in western Guangdong, especially in Huaxian County (now Huazhou and Wuchuan). This folk activity is usually held on the eve of the fifteenth day of the first month, and this folk tradition has been circulating for nearly a thousand years.

3. Lantern riddles, also known as playing riddles, are a unique form of Han folk cultural activities with national style in China, which has been passed down since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess.

4. Playing Dragon Lantern, also known as Dragon Dance and Dragon Lantern Dance, is a unique traditional folk entertainment activity in China. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, China has the custom of playing dragon lanterns in both urban and rural areas. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, playing dragon lantern has become a traditional dance with lively form, beautiful performance and romantic color.

Walking on stilts is one of the traditional folk activities of Han nationality. Walking on stilts is commonly known as binding firewood feet, also known as "stilts", "walking on stilts", "binding high feet" and "walking high legs"

It is a popular mass skill performance in northern China. In some folk festivals, dancers tie their feet to tease, while Wushu stilts emphasize personal skills and unique skills. All localities have formed distinctive regional styles and ethnic colors.