Lantern Festival custom in rural North America

First, the custom of Lantern Festival in rural areas of North America:

1, send lanterns

Sending lanterns is also called sending lanterns to children. In ancient times, before the Lantern Festival, newlyweds always received lanterns from their parents. Because lanterns are homophonic with Ding, it means that their daughters will be able to import more flowers and the population will flourish in the new year. Now there are many such scenes in many TV dramas, where women put lanterns in the river.

Step 2 walk on stilts

Walking on stilts is one of the traditional activities of the Han nationality. Every holiday, people will move out and walk on stilts together to celebrate excitedly. At the same time, walking on stilts is also a traditional opera with various forms, which is deeply loved by ordinary people.

Second, the significance of the Lantern Festival

1, the first month is January, the ancients called the night "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night of the year, so it is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as "Shangyuan Festival".

2. According to the folk tradition in China, the moon is high in the sky and there are thousands of lanterns on the ground on the festival night of Spring Festival. People watch lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, eat Yuanxiao and get together with their families. Yuanxiao originally meant "the night of Shangyuan Festival", because the main activities of Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month were to eat glutinous rice balls and enjoy the moon at night, and later the name of this festival evolved into "Lantern Festival".