What I know about the Lantern Festival Activity Reflection

1. General Knowledge "Lantern Festival Reflections

General Knowledge "Lantern Festival Reflections 1. Trivia about the Lantern Festival General Knowledge

The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Yuan Lunar Calendar, also known as the "Festival of the Upper Yuan," or Festival of Lanterns, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. In ancient books, this day is called "Shangyuan", and its night is called "yuan night", "yuanxi" or "yuanxiao".

In ancient Chinese custom, the Upper Yuan Festival (Lantern Festival), the Middle Yuan Festival (Bon Festival), and the Lower Yuan Festival (Shui Kuan Festival) are collectively known as the Sanyuan. The Lantern Festival began more than 2,000 years ago during the Qin Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen ordered that the 15th day of the first month be designated as the Lantern Festival.

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Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and setting off fireworks, delighting in guessing lantern riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, pulling rabbit lamps and so on.

The traditional customs are to go out and enjoy the moonlight, burn lanterns and set off fireworks.

New Year's Eve to eat Lantern, "Lantern" as a food, in our country has a long history. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat the novelty of food. This kind of food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" later called "Lantern", businessmen also beautifully called "Yuanbao". Lantern that is "dumplings" to sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, can be meat or vegetarian, with a variety of flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion and happiness. Haunted flowers

Haunted lanterns is the Lantern Festival traditional holiday customs, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lights prevailed, and inherited in later generations. And the first month of the fifteenth, and is the annual lantern fireworks ***. So the Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of Lights". Guessing riddles

Playing riddles is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival. Every first month of the lunar calendar on the 15th, the traditional folk to hang up colored lanterns, fireworks, and then there are good people to write riddles on the paper, pasted on the colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because the riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so the response of many people, and then riddles gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival. Stealing Vegetables

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The so-called "steal green", that is, to steal people's vegetable garden inside the green. According to records, the Lantern Festival, "regardless of men and women, young and old, do not wait for deeper, after the meal that is, everywhere raging, potential with the plunder, the gardeners a little negligent defense, that is, was swept away."

In addition to stealing vegetables, people also steal lamps - send lamps or steal lamps to wish for a child, "Years and Years Guangji" quoted in the "Materia Medica", said the Song Dynasty people think that the lamps on the fifteenth day of the first month of the first child, if the couple *** with the same to go to other people's homes to steal the lamps, placed under the bed, the month can be pregnant. In ancient times, the night of the Lantern Festival, in front of every house are burning some pinched with bean flour or carved with water carrots into the lamp, there are women three years after marriage infertility, the Lantern Festival on the streets to steal lamps to eat, generally steal the surname of Liu and Dai surnamed, "Liu" sound "stay", "Dai" sound "with", to take their harmonies, meaning "keep the child", "with the child", although it is superstitious

2. "Thoughts on the Lantern Festival" essay about 150 words

The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month is a traditional Chinese festival, a festival of family reunion and celebration. People are so happy to set off firecrackers and eat Lantern Festival!

The firecrackers were set off at Xingdong Park at 7:00 pm. Our family ate a full meal at 6:30, dad, mom, grandpa, grandma, grandpa, grandpa, grandma, sister and I went to Xingdong Park to see the fireworks, on the road, people come and go, endless streams of people, there are the city, there are from the countryside, there are driving a car, there are riding a tricycle and so on, our family talk and chat, not a moment later to the. To the Xingdong Park you will see in front of the park, from all directions to watch the fireworks and lanterns, among them there are old people on crutches, there are babbling children who can not speak, lively. Time to, instant salutes, flowers bloom, the beautiful flowers in different postures, there are many changes, some are semicircular, some are fan-shaped, but also round, and some shapes can not be said, some like small lanterns, some like waterfalls, some like sunflowers, there are like weeping willows, the most beautiful like a group of lovely bees, in the bushes in the nectar of the hard work. It is really colorful, fire trees and silver flowers, beautiful! Can really use a poem to describe: "suddenly like a spring breeze, thousands of trees and ten thousand trees pear (gift) flowers bloom".

3.kindergarten teachers open class "round dumplings" reflections

delicious dumplings activity reflections

Activity Objectives:

1. Know that the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival, to eat Lantern Festival round and play with the lanterns is the Lantern Festival of the folklore habits, a preliminary understanding of the lantern Festival of the Southern Fujian customs and traditions.

2. Know how to make Lantern Festival round, understand its production process and production materials.

3. Learning vocabulary: glutinous rice flour, filling, skin, etc..

Activity Preparation:

1. Knowledge and Experience Preparation: Children have had experience of the Lantern Festival, know that the Lantern Festival can swim in the lanterns, enjoy the lanterns, and eat the Lantern Festival round.

2. Material preparation: children play with the lanterns, lanterns, eat the lanterns round and other related photos, a variety of lanterns, a variety of flavors of the lanterns round.

Activity process:

I. Combined with the courseware, let the children understand the origin of the Lantern Festival and the main activities.

1. Teachers play the slide show, guide the children to say the picture to find that the children are doing? (Look and talk) children guess what festival they are celebrating?

2. Teacher summary: Lantern Festival is our traditional Chinese festival. Lantern Festival we have to appreciate the lanterns, lanterns, dragon dance, lion dance, but also to eat the Lantern Festival round. These activities are passed down from ancient times.

3. Tell the story of the origin of the Lantern Festival.

2. Combined with the picture to understand the production method and production materials of the Lantern Festival.

1. Discuss the Lantern Festival. Have you ever eaten a Lantern Festival round? What does the Lantern Festival look like? What is the flavor?

2. Combined with the physical Lantern Festival round to recognize the various flavors of the Lantern Festival round, such as peanut dumplings, sesame dumplings, taro round dumplings and so on.

3. Combined with the process of making dumplings pictures to guide children to recognize the process of making dumplings and production materials.

Learning vocabulary: glutinous rice flour, filling, skin, etc.

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3. Taste the various flavors of the Lantern Dumplings to stimulate children's interest in the activity.

1. The teacher cooks the Lantern Festival.

2. Children taste.

3. Say what flavors they have eaten.

Activity Reflection:

The main purpose of this activity is to let the children have a preliminary understanding of the origin of the Lantern Festival, to know some of the activities of the Lantern Festival, such as lanterns, eating dumplings, dragon dance, lion dance, etc., and to get a preliminary grasp of how to make the snacks in southern Fujian - Lantern Festival rounds and the materials used to make them, and to stimulate the interest of children in participating in the activity. The children will also be interested in the activities.

During the vacation period, we consciously asked parents to take photos of their children strolling around the lanterns, participating in the production of Yuanxiao rounds, and eating Yuanxiao rounds on the day of the Lantern Festival, and bring them to the kindergarten for display at the beginning of the school year, so the children have already had experience of some of the activities of the Lantern Festival, which lays a very good foundation for the current activities of ours. The children looked very excited when they viewed the photos of themselves and their peers. Ziyi said: I have a rabbit lamp, and my mom and I went to the Book Fair Park to play with the lamp, Jiaying said: I like to eat the Lantern Festival dumplings with sesame filling 、、、、、

The teacher utilized a variety of pictures of the process of making dumplings to guide the children to a preliminary understanding of how to make Lantern Festival dumplings, which is clear at a glance and more intuitive to avoid explaining the process to the children. The activity of tasting the dumplings further stimulates the children's interest in participating in the production activities. Tasting the Lantern Festival dumplings of this link to the whole activity to the high tide, the children eat dumplings, talking about dumplings, full of smiles 、、、、、、

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4. The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which has been celebrated as early as 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, and the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Mingdi, who advocated Buddhism and heard that there was a Buddhist practice of lighting lamps on the 15th day of the first lunar month for monks to view the relics of the Buddha and to honor the Buddha.

Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. The festival went through a process of development from the palace to the folk, from the Central Plains to the whole country.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, the 15th day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival. When Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, the sacrifice of "Taiyi God" was scheduled on the 15th day of the first month.

(Taiyi: the god who dominates everything in the universe). When Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", the Lantern Festival was already recognized as a major festival.

Another theory is that the custom of burning lanterns at the Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "Three Elements"; the 15th day of the first month is the Upper Elements Festival, the 15th day of the 7th month is the Middle Elements Festival, and the 15th day of the 10th month is the Lower Elements Festival. Supervisor of the upper, middle and lower three yuan respectively for the sky, earth, people, three officials, the heavenly officials happy, so the festival to light.

The Lantern Festival festival period and festival activities, is with the development of history and extend, expand. In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is from the eighth light, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month of the lights, the whole ten days.

With the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular. Especially the delicate, colorful lights, more so during the Spring Festival entertainment activities ***.

To the Qing Dynasty, and increased the dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilt walkers, twisting rice-planting songs and other "hundred plays" content, but the festival was shortened to four to five days. About the origin of the Lantern Festival, there are several interesting folk legends: the legend of the lamp Legend has it that a long time ago, there are a lot of ferocious birds and beasts, all around the harm to people and livestock, people will organize to fight them, there is a bird of God is trapped in a lost and landed on earth, but accidentally was unknowingly hunters to shoot dead.

The emperor was very angry, immediately sent a decree, ordered to let the heavenly soldiers on the 15th day of the first month to the earth to set fire to the earth's human and animal property burned to death.

When the people heard the news, it was like a thunderclap on their heads. They were so scared that they didn't know what to do. After a long time, there was an old man who came up with an idea, he said: "On the 14th, 15th and 16th day of the first month, every family will put up lanterns, firecrackers and fireworks in their houses.

In this way, the emperor of heaven will think that people have been burned to death. Everyone nodded their heads and went off to get ready.

By the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the emperor of heaven looked down and found a red light on earth, ringing in the sky, for three nights in a row, thinking that it was the flames of the great fire burning in order to be in the middle of a great speed. People thus saved their lives and their property.

In order to commemorate this success, from then on every first month of the fifteenth, every family hangs lanterns, fireworks to commemorate this day. Another legend says that the Lantern Festival was created to commemorate the "Pinglue" during the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty.

After the death of Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying, the son of Empress Lu, ascended the throne as Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Hui was weak and indecisive, and his power gradually fell into the hands of Empress Lu. After the death of Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty, Empress Lu took over the government and turned Liu's world into Lu's world. The court officials and Liu's clan were y indignant, but they dared not speak out for fear of Empress Lu's brutality. After the death of Empress Lu, all of them were afraid of being harmed and ostracized.

So, in the home of the general Lu Lu secretly ***, *** plot rebellion, in order to completely seize the Liu family. This matter spread to Liu's clan room Qi Wang Liu capsule ears, Liu capsule for the protection of Liu's kingdom, decided to start a military crusade Zhu Lü and then with the founding of the veteran Zhou Bo, Chen Ping to get in touch with the design of the lifting of the Lu Lu, "Zhu Lü's chaos" has finally been completely pacified. After the rebellion, Liu Heng, the second son of Liu Bang, was crowned Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wen was y impressed by the hard-won peace and prosperity, so he set the 15th day of the first month of the year when the "Lü's Rebellion" was quelled as a day of happiness with the people, and the capital city was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations to celebrate the occasion.

From then on, the 15th day of the first month has become a universal celebration of the folk festival - "Lantern Festival". Dongfang Shuo and the Lantern Girl.

5. What is the current situation of the Lantern Festival ah

The current situation of the Lantern Festival: the festive atmosphere is not strong, especially for young people

First, the importance of traditional festivals should be started from the ***

*** In the inheritance and protection of traditional culture should play a key role. Regarding the publicity and legislation of traditional Chinese festivals, *** and the legislature as well as the publicity department should really take urgent measures to revive them immediately! All traditional festivals should be included in the national legal holidays. For traditional festivals, legislators have a sense of reverence is the most fundamental.

Traditional festivals, although the history of the formation, but as a people's life culture, it is the natural formation of things, like a snowball, from the original very simple holiday gradually evolved and developed, and finally formed a fixed pattern, theme, fixed form. Its formation, in addition to the power of the people, the power of the administration is also very important, his rise and fall may be by successive generations of *** advocate and oppose the decision. It depends on what *** advocate and what not advocate, what should be in the festival culture and what should not. What role should *** play in this process? It should be fostered, because it is conducive to strengthening national cohesion, and at the same time, it should be clearly indicated in the policy that it can be continued in this way. In addition, *** should pay attention to the protection of culture. People in the festival, it is necessary to study the history of the formation of this festival, its development and the role played by the nation is exactly what kind of, so that its historical sources clear, every activity is recorded.

Second, digging the cultural connotation, strengthen the traditional culture of publicity and education

In fact, China's traditional festivals contain a rich human spirit, to vigorously explore and promote. To make the national cultural resources alive and eternal, it is also necessary to find a platform to nurture the inner driving force - indoctrination - national education at the state level and personal cultivation at the micro level, on the basis of the external secular force. National education allows national cultural resources to have a widely recognized social value scale and become part of the national cultural values; while personal cultivation allows the factors of national culture to have a channel to penetrate into the daily lives of the people and "make things quiet". The cultural resources that can take root in the individual's mind are the powerful "sacred body" that does not sway with the passage of time.

Third, the media should systematically publicize and popularize folk culture

First of all, the media should pay attention to folk culture and study it well. Folk culture itself is a non-textual thing, non-textual things how to systematize it through the media, so that the introduction of folk culture into a series of systematic things, which are cultural accumulation. Through our media, we should rescue and film the things that are about to disappear, and carefully report and guide the things that are still being inherited, which are the things that our media should do. Especially in the era of networking. It can be publicized in a systematic way through a variety of forms. First of all, we should introduce the traditional folk culture, and then ask the guests to speak, there are researchers to speak, the other is to go to the bottom of the picking, to understand the lives and feelings of the general public, so that from point to point to the face of the traditional knowledge of the vivid publicity to young people.

Fourth, the young people should re-know the traditional culture, to enhance the consciousness of their own national traditional culture protection

Our young people have to do is through a variety of ways to re-know our traditional culture, to enhance the consciousness of their own national traditional culture protection. The festival of Tanabata is still celebrated in some places, some of them are still well preserved, and we still have a lot of things preserved in our folklore. We should not blindly abandon our traditional culture, and we should go back and take a look at the backward and see our traditional things, especially those excellent traditional cultures. At least through traditional culture we should know how our predecessors and ancestors thought, what kind of life they lived at each stage, and what new changes and developments have taken place in this kind of society which has developed exactly to the society we have today.

6. Knowledge of the Lantern Festival

Every year, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, just after the Spring Festival, the traditional Chinese festival, the Lantern Festival, is ushered in.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancient people called the night "night", so they called the 15th day of the first month "Lantern Festival". The 15th day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, but also the beginning of the year, the night of the earth back to spring, people celebrate this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the New Year.

The Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival". According to Chinese folk tradition, on this day the moon is high in the night, people want to point up ten thousand colored lanterns, to celebrate.

Going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and fireworks, guessing riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, family reunion, celebrating the festival, a happy and harmonious. The history of the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is also known as the Festival of Lights, Lantern Lights custom from the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, more prosperous activities to enjoy the lights, the palace, hanging lights everywhere on the street, but also to establish a tall lamp wheel, lamps and lamps and trees, the Tang Dynasty poet Lu Zhaolian was in the "fifteenth night to see the lights" in this way to describe the Lantern Festival Lanterns pomp "catching the Han Han suspected that the stars fall, according to the building seems to be hung by the moon.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a great deal of excitement and excitement.

The Song Dynasty attached more importance to the Lantern Festival, more lively lantern-appreciation activities, lantern-appreciation activities to be carried out for five days, the style of the lamp is also more abundant. The Ming Dynasty to 10 days, which is the longest Lantern Festival in China.

Although the Qing Dynasty lantern-appreciation activities only 3 days, but the lantern-appreciation activities on a large scale, unprecedented, in addition to burning lights, but also fireworks to help. "Guess the lantern riddle" is also called "playing lantern riddles", is the Lantern Festival after the addition of an activity, appeared in the Song Dynasty.

The Southern Song Dynasty, the capital Lin'an every Lantern Festival to make a fan, guessing the riddle of many people. In the beginning, the riddles were written on strips of paper and pasted on colorful lanterns for people to guess.

Because the riddles can enlighten wisdom and interest, so the process of circulation by the popularity of all walks of life. The folk custom of eating Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival is made of glutinous rice, either solid or with filling. Filling with bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, all kinds of fruit, etc., when eating boiled, fried, steamed, fried can be.

At first, people called this food "floating round", and later called "soup dumplings" or "soup dumplings", these names "reunion", "the word sounds similar," the name "reunion". "The word sounds similar, take the meaning of reunion, symbolizing the family reunion, harmony and happiness, people also use this nostalgia for parted loved ones, to send a good hope for the future of life. Lantern Festival in some places, there is a "walk a hundred diseases" custom, also known as "bake a hundred diseases," "scattered hundred diseases," the participants are mostly women, they walk in pairs or go to the wall, or across the bridge, walk in the countryside!

The purpose of the festival is to drive away illnesses and disasters.

With the passage of time, the Lantern Festival activities are more and more, many local festivals added to the dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing dry boat twisting rice-planting songs, playing the drums and other traditional folklore performances. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, is not only prevalent on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but is also celebrated year after year in overseas Chinese settlements.

The origin of the Lantern Festival and the legend of the Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, as early as 2,000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, Lantern Festival Lantern Appreciation began in the Eastern Han Dynasty Ming Di period, the Ming Di advocated Buddhism, heard that the Buddhist monks on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Buddha's relics view, lamps and honor the Buddha's practice, the order of the day and night in the palace and temples to honor the Buddha lamps and lanterns, so that the common people of the clergy and the common people are hanging lamps. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival.

The festival went through a process of development from the palace to the folk, from the Central Plains to the whole country. At the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the 15th day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrifice of "Taiyi God" was scheduled on the 15th day of the first month. (Taiyi: the god of everything in the universe).

When Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", he already recognized the Lantern Festival as a major holiday. Another theory is that the practice of burning lanterns at the Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist theory of the Three Elements; the 15th day of the first month is the Upper Elements Festival, the 15th day of the seventh month is the Middle Elements Festival, and the 15th day of the tenth month is the Lower Elements Festival.

In charge of the upper, middle and lower Sanyuan respectively for the sky, earth, people, three officials, the heavenly officials happy, so the upper yuan festival to light. Lantern Festival festival period and festive activities, is with the development of history and extend, expand.

In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty is only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is from the eighth light, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month of the lights, the whole ten days. With the Spring Festival, the day for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular.

Especially the delicate, colorful lights, more so during the Spring Festival entertainment activities ***. To the Qing Dynasty, and increased the dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilt walkers, twisting rice-planting songs and other "hundreds of theater" content, just shortened the festival period of four to five days.

The legend of the lamp Legend has it that a long time ago, there were many fierce birds and beasts, hurting people and livestock, people organized to fight them, and there was a bird of prey for the lost and landed on earth, but accidentally was unknowingly hunters to shoot dead. The emperor was so angry that he immediately sent a decree ordering the heavenly soldiers to come to earth on the fifteenth day of the first month to set fire to all human and animal properties on earth.

The daughter of the emperor's good heart, can not bear to see the people innocent suffering, at the risk of their lives, secretly ride the auspicious clouds to the earth, the news told people. When the people heard the news, it was as if a scorching thunderclap had rung above their heads.

They were so scared that they didn't know what to do. After a long time, there was an old man who came up with a method, he said: on the fourteenth day of the first month, the fifteenth day of the first month, and the sixteenth day of the first month, every family will open lanterns and colorful decorations in their houses, light up loud firecrackers, and set off fireworks. In this way, the emperor of heaven will think that people are burnt to death".

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement, and went about their preparations. On the night of the 15th day of the first month, the emperor of heaven looked down and found that the earth was red and loud, for three consecutive nights, thinking that it was a big fire burning flames to the middle of the big fast.

People thus saved their lives and property. In order to commemorate this success, from then on every first month of the fifteenth, every family hangs lanterns, fireworks to commemorate this day.

Another legend says that the Lantern Festival was set up by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to commemorate the "Ping Lu". After the death of Liu Bang, the first Han emperor, Liu Ying, the son of Empress Lu, ascended the throne as Emperor Hui of Han.

Emperor Hui was weak and indecisive, and his power gradually fell into the hands of Empress Lu. After the death of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, the Empress Lu took over the government and turned Liu's world into Lu's world, the court officials, Liu's clansmen were y indignant, but they were afraid of the Empress Lu's brutality and dared not speak out. After the death of the Empress Lu, all the Lu's family members were afraid of being harmed and ostracized. So, in the home of the general Lu Lu secretly ***, *** plotting rebellion, in order to completely seize Liu's kingdom.

This matter was passed to the ears of Liu's clan room Qi Wang Liu Sang, Liu Sang to protect Liu.

7. Trivia of the Lantern Festival

Zhang Lantern Since the formation of the Lantern Festival, the custom of the Lantern Festival, all dynasties have been to the 15th of the first month of the Lantern Festival as a major event.

Emperor Jianwen of Liang once wrote a Leading Lights Fugue: "The southern oil is full, and the western lacquer is burning. Su Zheng rest in peace, wax out of Longchuan.

The slanting sunlight is reflected, and the reflection is clear and fresh."

This is the first time I have ever seen a movie in the world, and it is the first time I have ever seen a movie in the world.

Emperor Yang of Sui held a grand party on the 15th day of the first month of every year to entertain the guests and envoys from all countries. According to the "Sui Book - Music" records: the Lantern Festival is very grand, everywhere lights and colors, day and night singing, dancing and playing music, performers up to more than 30,000 people, playing music up to more than 18,000 people, the stage is eight miles long, playing the people watching the lights is countless, all night long, enjoy the fun, lively very much.

In the Tang Dynasty, it developed into an unprecedented lantern market, and after the Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685 - 762 AD), the beginning of the heyday, Chang'an lamp market is very large, burning lamps 50,000, lanterns, lanterns, the emperor ordered to do a giant lamp building, as wide as 20 rooms, 150 feet high, bright gold, extremely spectacular.

The Tang Dynasty is the implementation of curfew, night ban drums on the sound of the ban on travel, criminal night to be punished; only in the Shangyuan Festival, the emperor licensed three days of prohibition, known as the "release of the night". Along to the Song Dynasty, the lights by three nights extended to five nights, lights outside the fireworks, performing a variety of juggling, the scene is more lively.

"Tokyo Dreaming Records" recorded: every Lantern Festival, Kaifeng Imperial Street, ten thousand colored lanterns base lamps mountain, lanterns fireworks, gold and blue shot, embroidery and glitter. The girls of Kyoto sing and dance, and all the people watch.

"The tourists set the Imperial Street under the two corridors, strange skills, singing and dancing, scales cut, music and noise for more than ten miles." The streets and alleys, tea houses and restaurants lights and candles, drums and gongs, firecrackers, hundreds of miles of lights incessantly To the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang in Jinling after the throne, in order to make the capital prosperous and lively, and the provisions of the first eight of the first month on the lights, seventeen down lights, and even Zhang ten nights, families are hanging colorful lights and lanterns, lanterns on the depiction of a variety of characters, dancing, birds flying flowers. The dragon and fish leap, lanterns and fireworks shine all night long. Drums and music. Noisy Dan, which is China's longest festival of lights, the Qing Dynasty, Manchu dominated the Central Plains, the court no longer run the lanterns, folk lanterns are still spectacular.

The date was shortened to five days, and continues to this day. Guess the lantern riddle "guess the lantern riddle" is also called "playing lantern riddle", is a Lantern Festival after the increase in an activity, lantern riddle is the earliest from the development of riddles, originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period.

It is a kind of literary game with ridicule, admonition, warning, wit, and jokes. The riddles were hung in lamps for people to guess and shoot, which began in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Old Story of Wulin - Lanterns, recorded: "Silk lamps cut and write poems, sometimes with ridicule, and paintings of characters, hidden hidden words, and gags in the old capital, teasing pedestrians." Lantern Festival, the Imperial City is not night, the spring Lantern Festival will be, the people mixed, riddles book in the lamp, reflected in the candle, listed in the thoroughfare, anyone guess, so called "lantern riddles".

Nowadays, every Lantern Festival, all places are playing lantern riddles, hope that this year can be joyful, safe and sound. Because riddles can inspire wisdom and are interesting, they are popular among all social classes in the process of circulation.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, various kinds of juggling skills began to appear in the lantern market. Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to riddles and a hundred opera songs and dances on the market, but also added the content of the opera show.

Throughout the years, people in addition to touring the lantern market, there are welcome Zigu sacrifices toilet God, cross the bridge to touch the nails to walk away from the hundred diseases and other customs, there are drums, rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, dragon dances, lion dances and other games. The traditional society of the Lantern Festival is the urban and rural importance of the folk festival, the Lantern Festival in the city is particularly enthusiastic, which reflects the unique spirit of carnival of the Chinese people.

The traditional Lantern Festival has been dissolved by daily life, people gradually lost **** the same spiritual interest, the complexity of the festival has been simplified to "eat Lantern" food customs. The festival has been simplified to a food custom of "eating Lantern".

Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as during the time of the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance called "Qingjiao", the image of a bird with a dragon's head and body played by a human being appeared, and then choreographed a dance scene in which six auger dragons were interspersed with each other.

The dragon dance in written records, is the Han Dynasty Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu", the author of the hundred plays in the narrative of the dragon dance made a vivid depiction. According to the "Sui Book - Music Zhi" records, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, similar to the hundred plays in the dragon dance performance of the "yellow dragon change" is also very wonderful, dragon dance popular in many parts of China.

The Chinese people revere the dragon as a symbol of good luck. Stilt-walking Stilt-walking is a popular folkloric performance of mass skill.

Stilts are a kind of ancient Chinese opera, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in China was in the article of "Lie Zi - Say Fu": "There is a Lanzi in Song, who uses his skills to dry Song Yuan.

Song Yuan called and made to see its skills. Lion Dance The lion dance is an excellent Chinese folk art, every Lantern Festival or *** celebrations, folk lion dance to cheer.

This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, began to popularize the North and South Dynasties, so far there has been more than a thousand years of history. "Lion Dance" began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, also known as the "Lion Dance", "Taiping music", generally completed by three people, two people dressed as a lion, a person as a lion's head, a person as a lion and the back feet, another person as a guide lion body and The lion dance is generally done by three people, two people dressed as lions, one as the head of the lion, one as the body of the lion and the back feet, the other as the lion guide, the dance method and there is a cultural and military, cultural dance to show that the lion's docility, there are shaking hair, rolling and other actions, martial arts lion lion lion lion ferocious, there are prancing, stomping high, rolling colorful ball and other actions.

Rowing Dry Boat Rowing dry boat, folklore is to commemorate the great Yu's success in water control. Rowing dry boat, also known as running dry boat, is to imitate the boat on the land, most of the performance of running dry boat is girls.

The dry boat is not a real boat, more than two pieces of thin board, sawed into a boat shape, bamboo and wood tie into, and then masked with colorful cloth, set of tie in the girl's waist, as sitting in the boat, as in the hands of the same paddle, to do the rowing position, one side running, one side singing some local ditties, singing and dancing, which is the rowing dry boat. Sometimes there is another man dressed up as a boat passenger, partnering with the show, is mostly dressed up as a clown, with a variety of comical actions to amuse the audience.

Rowing dry boat is popular in many parts of China. Eating Lantern Festival "Lantern Festival" as a food has a long history in China.

Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular in the Lantern Festival to eat a novelty food. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao".

In ancient times, "Lantern" is more expensive, there is a poem that says: "Your guests hook curtains to see the Royal Street, the city treasures a moment to. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a pair of shoes or boots.

New Year's Day 15 to eat Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival that "dumplings" to white.

The first day of the first month, we eat the Lantern Festival.