What are the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival (describe the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival in 50 words)

Lantern Festival is coming, which is an important festival in China. What are the traditional customs of Lantern Festival? What is the custom of Lantern Festival? Let's take a look!

eat yuanxiao

Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice flour, with petals, sugar, nuts and jujube paste as the main fillings. It is wrapped in a round shape and can be used for soup, frying and steaming, because its appearance is round and it means reunion.

Yuanxiao has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, it was popular for people to eat "floating Zi Yuan" on the Lantern Festival, which was called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". This custom has continued to this day.

the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival, is suitable for enjoying the moon and hanging lanterns when the moon is full. The custom of putting lanterns on the Lantern Festival began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to later generations.

Before the fifteenth day of the first month, lanterns were hung all over the street, flowers were everywhere, and lights were swaying. On the fifteenth night of the first month, red lights hung high in the streets, including palace lanterns, animal lanterns, lanterns, lanterns and bird lanterns, which attracted people to watch lanterns.

Solve riddles; solve lantern riddles; guess riddles on hanging lanterns

During the Lantern Festival, people will have colorful lanterns. When they have colorful lanterns, they will see many riddles on them. This is another tradition of the Lantern Festival-solve riddles on the lanterns. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess.

Riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so many people respond, and then riddles gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival.

dragon dance and lion dance

Every festival, assembly or celebration, there will be a dragon and lion dance team to entertain. The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols. Of course, in such a lively solar term as the Lantern Festival, the existence of dragon and lion dances is essential.

Dragon and lion dances have different habits in different places. In some areas, the audience gathered in a certain place to watch the dragon and lion dance performances, while in other areas, the dragon and lion dance teams marched along the street.

What is the custom of Lantern Festival?

Beijing 1

The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. The annual Lantern Festival, dragon and lion dances, hawking in old Beijing and other traditional Lantern Festival programs are one of the main reasons why old Beijing residents look forward to this festival.

The traditional Lantern Festival activities in old Beijing are mainly composed of three parts: flower party, lantern festival and eating Lantern Festival.

2.hebei province

The unique custom of Yuanxiao in Hebei is the flower pulling in Jingxing, which is an ancient artistic wonder. The Lantern Festival custom in Zanhuang County-"Laluchen" is a dance that shows the working life, with the Lantern Festival as the main part and percussion music.

There are drums, gongs, cymbals and water cymbals. Yongping House Lantern Festival, where sick women gather under the kiln, is called "pottery moxibustion". Children crossing the bridge are called "Du Bai Goose". Some people cut the paper into nine paper ropes and tied them with their hands to make up for their mistakes. This is called "knotting sheep intestines".

3.Anhui Province

In Fengyang County, the ancient city, swinging, picking lanterns and throwing torches have become the three major customs of the Lantern Festival. There is a folk saying in Fengyang that "swinging on the Lantern Festival won't hurt your waist for a year". Lantern Festival, the most exciting thing for children is "picking lanterns".

As early as a few days ago, all kinds of lanterns went on the market early, and lanterns with different shapes decorated the town at night. Throwing torches is a group activity for teenagers. In Fengyang rural areas, careful children will consciously collect and prepare some old brooms and brushes in advance to prepare for the Lantern Festival.

4.Shanxi Province

Hanging lanterns is an essential form for Shanxi people to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is coming, and all kinds of lights are hung in every household, from 14 to 16, which are on every night. Setting off fireworks is the most gratifying activity of Shanxi People's Lantern Festival. Fireworks will be set off in the square in the evening of Lantern Festival, and the whole family will go out to see the beautiful fireworks.

Literature and art stepping on the street can be called a folk culture makeup parade. From 14 to 16, for three consecutive days, all counties and districts organized various cultural performances to our city.

5.shandong province

Developing recreational activities is an important part of the Lantern Festival. There are various forms of vaudeville, such as lion dance, dragon dance, walking on stilts, dry boat, Hua Gun, yangko and donkey driving, with China traditional opera as the main content.

Every village around Qufu City plays with dragon lanterns, and the dragon lanterns of every village will be performed in Confucius House. The place where Confucius plays dragon lanterns is in front of the lobby of the second gate, and it is not allowed to enter at ordinary times. At this time, outsiders are also allowed to enter to watch the dragon lantern. When playing with dragon lanterns, Confucius' servants and "fireworks households" set off fireworks.

6.henan province

The most unique custom of Changxing Henan people is that on the night of the Lantern Festival, every family should tie lanterns with bamboo and red paper in front of their ancestral graves and light the candles in the middle to burn out.

The general customs of the Lantern Festival are watching lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls and dancing lions. Even people in Henan seldom light lanterns in front of ancestral graves.

7.shaanxi

During the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, in addition to big lanterns, there is also the custom of "putting sky lanterns". This custom has a long history. According to historical records, it was completed in the Tang Dynasty.

"steamed buns with lights" are popular in Tongchuan, Shaanxi. Every year, on the 15th day of the first lunar month, during the Lantern Festival, every family will put incense tables, light candles and set off firecrackers at home. Lights are lit everywhere in the room, and there are all kinds of flower buns next to the lights, called "lanterns with lanterns".

8.jiangsu province

There are five customs in Taizhou during the Lantern Festival: eating Yuanxiao, celebrating Yuanxiao and solve riddles on the lanterns, setting off fireworks and sending good luck. Sending good luck is a unique custom in some towns and villages in Taizhou. On the Lantern Festival, relatives and friends will send bridge stakes and Guanyin to the newly-married bride to wish your son an early birth.

In some places, the bride will be dragged to Baiziqiao, which is also a child-seeking game.

9.zhejiang province

It is said in Hangzhou that the 15th day of the first month is the day when God blessed the people of Shangyuan. They went to Wu Shan to worship. The most famous Lantern Festival in Haining is the exquisite chrysanthemum lantern.

Shangyu County will compete in martial arts on the platform before the Lantern Festival. In Jiande County, if someone has a new wife, a wine sacrifice bed will be set on the Lantern Festival.

Jiangxi province 10

After dinner from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, Wan 'an people gathered in the ancestral temple or temple in the village, holding a Lantern Festival song book and singing it to the Lantern Festival. The locals called it Lantern Festival Song. On the fifteenth night of the first month, besides singing, praising and boating, we also drink Yuanxiao wine and eat Yuanxiao soup-this is the finale of the evening.

The whole ancestral hall is filled with tables and chairs. Some villagers filled their own rice wine in a basin that had been used for many years, poured a full bowl of rice wine for each guest, and each table also contained a large pot of Yuanxiao soup for everyone to enjoy.

Hubei province 1 1

Jingzhou Lantern Festival, Guandi Temple will hold a large-scale temple fair. At that time, people in Jingzhou will play dragon lanterns, row lotus boats, ride horses and shoot arrows, and blow horns to cover sedan chairs, making a lot of noise here. Boys who play with dragons should first worship Guan Gong in Guandi Temple and then dance dragons along the streets of the ancient city.

In addition, the Lantern Festival is also the "son-in-law's day" for Jingzhou people, which is the day when the father-in-law fetes his son-in-law. Shiyan people attach great importance to the Lantern Festival and hold it, such as dancing dragons, playing with lions, rowing colorful lotus boats, jumping mussels and walking on stilts. Among them, the "Dragon Lantern" in Shiyan Fang County is the most famous.

Hunan Province 12

Changde Yuanxiao, where every household makes soup with Chili peppers and entertains guests with leeks and fruits, is called "Time Soup". After swimming in the dragon lantern in Xintian County, the dragon lantern was lit, which was called "sending disaster".

Sichuan Province 13

Sichuan Lantern Festival has the custom of "four steals": "one steals jiaozi, the other steals vegetables, the third steals eaves lamps and the fourth steals red." Except for stealing youth and strengthening the body, the rest are customs of seeking children.

There is a custom of "cursing" in Kaixian County. On the Lantern Festival, people move the benches outdoors and scold all the grievances at ordinary times. Those who are scolded are not allowed to scold them back.

Fujian Province 14

It is a custom in Fujian in the old days to give lanterns to newly married women on the Lantern Festival. The styles of lanterns sent by different places are different, but the purpose is the same: "Add Ding." In some places in southern Fujian, such as Zhangpu, there is also a custom called "wearing lamp feet on the Lantern Festival".

Dragon lantern is the most popular program in Fujian Lantern Festival. Dragon lanterns are dozens of feet long, with a head and a tail. There is also a popular solve riddles on the lanterns on the Lantern Festival, which is also called "lantern riddle" or "solve riddles on the lanterns".

Guangdong province 15

Guangdong's Lantern Festival likes to "steal" lettuce and mix it in cakes for good luck. Last year, boys were born in Xin 'an County, and they all celebrated with lanterns at midnight. When Nanxiong lit the lamp, parents took down the dragon beard thread from the dragon lantern and tied it for the children. It is said that children can be protected from diseases.

He still took the candle left in the dragon lantern and shone it under the bed. It is said that he can give birth to your son. When people steal midnight snacks in Wenchang county, it is a good omen for the thief to be scolded, and for those who can't steal, it is a good omen not to be scolded.

Yunnan Province 16

Yunlong county greeted the three gods before the Lantern Festival and set up a shed along the street to offer sacrifices. Burning incense on the bridge on the second day of the Maitreya Lantern Festival, throwing stones into the water, and then washing your eyes with water, it is said that you can get rid of the disease.