How do Cantonese people celebrate the Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival, southerners eat dumplings, mainly to pray for the family reunion. The glutinous rice used to make dumplings is flat, sweet, nourishes the deficiency and regulates the blood, strengthens the spleen and appetizer, benefits the qi and stops diarrhea, and has the function of warming the middle, generating fluids and moistening the dryness. Furthermore, the regular filling of all kinds of soup dumplings is mainly based on fruits and dried fruits, including sesame, walnuts, peanuts, plus vegetable oil, the nutritional value is ? more on a higher level? So, how do Cantonese people spend the Lantern Festival?

Guangdong people have to spend the Lantern Festival this way to be authentic

Guangzhou?

The Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first month of the year is the first night of the full moon, but also the beginning of the year, the night of the return of the earth to spring, people celebrated this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the New Year. The Lantern Festival is also the main form of celebration for Guangzhou people.

So there is a temple fair, Yuexiu Park Lantern Festival and other activities with a strong folk flavor.

This year's Guangfu Temple Fair series of activities since the start of the first month of the 15th, free admission. There are special folk cultural performances, folk parades, non-heritage handicrafts production and display, traditional small commodities exhibition and sale, traditional food exhibition and sale and other activities.

And Yuexiu Park Lantern Festival charge time period is during the period from January 30 to February 28, the Lantern Festival activities in the sheltered area of the ticket price is: full ticket 30 yuan / person? Zhang, half ticket 15 yuan / person? Zhang.

Since February 29, 2016, the entrance fee for the enclosed area of the lantern festival activities in Yuexiu Park is free.

Seeking children

Wanting to give birth to a big fat monkey doll may wish to take advantage of the Lantern Festival to seek children for blessings.

Old times in Guangzhou and other places, there is the custom of begging for a child on the night of the Lantern Festival.

The way to seek children, one is? The first is to pray for a child by occupying a flower.

The first way is to burn incense at the shrine of Mrs. Jinhua to pray for a child.

The second is? Eastbound begging for children? According to Li Tiuyuan's Notes on South Vietnam in the Qing Dynasty, on the night of the Lantern Festival, many ladies in Guangzhou traveled eastward to the temple to beg for children. Three days later, the temple wished to send the invited lamps to their homes, which is called ? Sending the lamps to the home is called "sending the lamps". The temple will send the lamps to your home three days later, which is called "sending lamps".

Three is? The first one is the "Caiqing Yiman". The first one is to steal the green? The first is the "Guangzhou Xiguan Bamboo Shoots" by Ye Tingxun: "The night of the New Year's Eve is full of drums and gongs. The night of the Lantern Festival is full of drums and gongs, and the base of Penglai is in spring. The man who is popular with the green vegetables, picking sent to the head of the bed knot more.

Foshan?

Line Tongji Bridge

Line Tongji, no closure? The windmills are held in their hands and recite the words "行通济，无闭翳". and bring along a handful of "Sheng Yi Vegetables". Sheng Yi Choi? (lettuce), hundreds of thousands of people walked across the Tongji Bridge in great numbers, begging for a? Nine out and thirteen back? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

Zhanjiang?

Dancing with the Dragon

We've seen the dragon dance, but have you seen the dancing with the dragon?

Every Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and some major festivals, Zhanjiang City, East China Sea Island, Dongshan Town will be dancing a few nights? The human dragon? The first time I saw it, I saw it with a high level of skill! This is an important part of the Donghai Island and even the Leizhou Peninsula's enduring folk customs and large square entertainment.

Fengshun, Meizhou?

Burning fire dragon

Burning fire dragon is a national intangible cultural heritage, in Fengshun County, Meizhou City, Puzhai Town, the Lantern Festival will be held every year? Burning fire dragon? activity, so far, has a history of 300 years, is the local people for the new year to pray for good weather, prosperity of all the blessings of the activity.

Each by thirty to forty bare-chested youth hand engine, plus drummers, lobsters, goldfish and other people, the entire team of more than 200 people.

Maoming?

Nianliu

Nianliu is a big New Year? There are the tour of the gods, the tour of the lanterns, the lighting of lanterns, the Jiao-festival, the lion dance, the dragon dance, the floating colors, the eight sounds, martial arts performances, doing a big opera (Cantonese opera), puppet shows, and the burning of fireworks and firecrackers. Legend has it that doing the ? The New Year's Exercise? The first is to make a good harvest and make the people happy!

Chaoshan area?

Hanging happy lanterns

My great Chaoshan traditional customs of course, and all ancient and traditional. In Chaoshan, the word "lamp" means "light". The lamps are the most important of all. and? Ding? and the same sound, light lamp and add Ding is close to the sound, so people think that light lamp that is a good sign of add Ding. On the day of Lantern Festival, people carry lanterns, prepare paper, silver, incense and candles, go to the temple in the countryside to light the fire, and then come back to hang in the family shrine and bedside, which is called "hanging happy lanterns". Hanging happy lanterns?

Over the bridge

Lunar New Year's Eve, most of Chaoshan have the custom of over the bridge. In Jieyang, the Lantern Festival this day, men, women, children and old people compete to be the first to pass the bridge, after the birth of a brother praying to marry a good wife; girls pray for a good husband and son-in-law, the birth of a boy; the old man is praying for a long and healthy life; small children praying to grow up to adulthood. In Puning Hongyang also have? The custom of walking on the bridge on the 15th night is also practiced in Hongyang, Puning. The custom is to walk on the head bridge on the fifteenth night. Touqiao? That is, there have been more than four hundred years of history of Taiping Bridge, both sides of the railings at both ends have two stone lions. Every Lantern Festival night, men, women and children *** with walking across the Taiping Bridge. When crossing the bridge, you can not turn back, otherwise? Turning back is unlucky? , people crossing the bridge also have the custom of touching the stone lions.

Guangdong people over the Lantern Festival the right way to open

Guangdong people Lantern Festival customs eat

Lantern Festival, southerners ate dumplings, the main prayers for the whole family reunion. The glutinous rice used to make dumplings is flat, sweet, nourishes the deficiency and regulates the blood, strengthens the spleen and stomach, benefits the qi and stops the diarrhea, and has the function of warming up the middle, generating fluids and moistening the dryness. Furthermore, the regular filling of all kinds of soup dumplings is mainly based on fruits and dried fruits, including sesame, walnuts, peanuts, plus vegetable oil, the nutritional value is ? more upgraded? Boiled soup dumplings are the easiest way to do it, and actually the healthiest way to eat it.

Guangdong people over the Lantern Festival in addition to eating dumplings, but also eat lettuce. Guangdong people's character is calm and real, the festivities are also the most figure a good intention, usually most commonly used in the opening of new stores and other festive occasions of lettuce, is also the Lantern Festival must be festive items. Often become a common vegetable on the dinner table in the South lettuce, the name and? Sheng Cai? harmonize, so it is also seen as a symbol of wealth and good fortune of the festive things.

How the Cantonese celebrate the Lantern Festival

The Cantonese celebrate the Lantern Festival with a lion dance, which is one of the major features. The lion dance is centered in Guangdong and popular in Hong Kong, Macao and overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Although the Southern Lion Dance is also a two-person dance, the lion dancers wear lantern pants underneath and dance with a colorful lion quilt on top. There are many schools of Southern Lion Dance, including Qingyuan and Yingde. Jigong Lion Dance in Qingyuan and Yingde, and the "Big Head Lion" in Guangzhou and Foshan. Big Head Lion and those of Guangzhou and Foshan, as well as those of Gaohe and Zhongshan. Duckbill Lion and Dongguan's? The Kirin Lion from Dongguan, and the Big Head Lion from Guangzhou and Foshan.

The Lantern Festival is the perfect finale to the Chinese New Year.

The Lantern Festival as the perfect finale to the Lunar New Year, Guangdong Lantern Festival activities are both traditional and fashionable, and the temple is a major folklore, the temple not only has delicious, fun, and a variety of exciting performances.

Meizhou fire dragon

Puzhai Village in Fenshun County, every Lantern Festival will have an annual fire dragon dance staged, the dance is the fire of the fire dragon, it is said that this can wish the family good health, lovers sweet and honey, but also to get the good intentions of the red-hot. In the Hakka township of Meizhou, the Lantern Festival, a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, is bustling with activity.

Foshan colorful dragon

Foshan colorful dragon sigh? Lantern Lake?

Before and after the Lantern Festival, large-scale Lingnan colored lanterns will be staged here, with a total length of more than 2,000 meters of large colorful dragons starting from the dragon's head at the Chengmen Tou Square, and unfolding all the way along the Chengmen Tou Road, Ancestral Temple Road, People's Road, Fuk Luk Road, and Kam Wah Road, with the dragon's tail until the Oriental Plaza, which is very spectacular.

Guangzhou Lychee Bay strong festive atmosphere

Guangzhou tour Liwan to see the big show

Walking in Lychee Bay, the river and lotus ponds can be seen swimming fish, through the curved paths and corridors, through the pavilions and pavilions, there is more such as in the Lingnan scrolls of the feeling. For the old Guangzhou people, spending the Lantern Festival in Lai Chi Wan may find many childhood memories.

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