What you should do on the Lantern Festival

1. Eat Tangyuan. Eating soup dumplings on the 15th day of the first month is a traditional custom. "Tangyuan" with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. as the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, can be meat or vegetarian, different flavors. Soup dumplings can be boiled in soup, deep-fried, steamed and eaten, with the meaning of reunion, sending thoughts of loved ones far away.

2, lanterns, riddles. "Lantern Festival" is also called "Festival of Lights", in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Ming Emperor, Buddhism was introduced to China, in order to show respect for the Buddha, the court called on the people to release lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival. In the Tang Dynasty, not only the people would light lanterns to celebrate, even the emperor would go out of the palace, "micro walk to watch the lanterns", and even "put thousands of palace girls to watch the lanterns". Until today, the custom of enjoying lanterns still exists.

3, lion dance. Lion dance is a folk art in China, every Lantern Festival, people will be in the form of lion dance to cheer. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, popular in the North and South Dynasties, has been more than a thousand years of history.