Where is the most lively Lantern Festival in Yiwu?

Yiwu Lantern Festival is the most lively in Beiyuan Street.

The fifteenth day of the first month is called Shangyuan, and the night is called Yuanxiao or Yuanxiao. This is the Lantern Festival. On this day, people will show lanterns, greet dragons and watch lanterns. Statues of ancestors are hung in the hall to celebrate Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. In ancient times, the four streets in the city were all built with bamboo sheds and colored barriers, with lanterns hanging on them, and the temples were full of lanterns. By the early years of the Republic of China, the custom of hanging lanterns on four streets had disappeared, the custom of holding lanterns in temples remained the same, and the custom of welcoming dragons was more common. Occasionally, there will be solve riddles on the lanterns activities at the Lantern Festival, which adds vitality to the Lantern Festival.

Most of the dragon lanterns in Yiwu are Wolong. The dragon head, dragon body, dragon tail and palace are all carved from camphor wood. The size and shape are designed according to local legends. The faucet, commonly known as the lamp holder, is about 2 meters long and the longest is more than 3 meters. The length of the beaten tail is about 1 m. It is separated from the dragon body, carefully carved and painted with red paint, and the dragon palace is vivid.

The custom of the lantern festival

Watching the Lantern Festival and solve riddles on the lanterns can be said to be a traditional program of the Lantern Festival. The riddle originated from the riddle in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. This is a literary game full of ridicule, discipline, humor and banter. Riddles are hung on lanterns for people to guess. They began in the Southern Song Dynasty. Now every Lantern Festival, some lantern riddles will be held in various places. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and are interesting, they are very popular with the masses.

Eating jiaozi is an important custom in the Lantern Festival. Tangyuan, also called jiaozi and Yuanxiao, means reunion. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called Fuyuanzi, and later it was called Yuanxiao and Tangyuan. It is stuffed with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, and wrapped with glutinous rice flour, which may be meat.