What is the festival of playing dragon lanterns, walking on stilts, wrapping jiaozi and steaming rice cakes?

Playing with dragon lanterns, walking on stilts, making jiaozi and steaming rice cakes are the Lantern Festival.

This is the lyrics of a nursery rhyme, which mainly describes various celebrations around the Lantern Festival. In addition, there are generally activities such as setting off firecrackers and solving puzzles on lanterns during the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. It is also called Lantern Festival, Lunar Abortion and Lantern Festival. It is one of the traditional festivals in China. Since ancient times, the first month has been regarded as the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called night night. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is named Lantern Festival. Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by warm and festive lantern viewing customs. In the folk, besides watching lanterns, there are many celebrations.

Local activities of Lantern Festival

1, mouse after mouse

This activity is mainly aimed at sericulture families. Because mice often eat silkworms in large areas at night, it is said that they can stop eating silkworms by feeding them rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month. So, these families cooked a big pot of sticky porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, and some even covered it with a layer of meat. They put porridge in bowls, on ceilings, corners and mouths where mice haunt.

2. Eiko Valley

Zi Gu is a kind and poor girl in folklore. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Zi Gu died of poverty. People sympathize with her and miss her. In some places, it is convenient to have the custom of "welcoming the daughter-in-law on the fifteenth day of the first month". Every night, people tie a life-size portrait of purple aunt with straw and cloth heads. Women have stood beside the toilet, pigsty and kitchen where Zigu often works to meet her, holding her hand like a sister, telling her sweet words and comforting her with tears. The scene is very vivid.