What to do at Shenzhen Lantern Festival

Shenzhen Lantern Festival fun are dancing dragons, point lanterns, riddles, singing Cantonese opera.

Inside the Lantern Festival in the south, not only to eat the traditional Lantern Festival, there are tour groups of rice cakes, etc., the main moral is to say that the New Year everyone should be reunited together, the family reunion, and beautiful, of course, in the night of the Lantern Festival to carry out a lot of activities, such as colorful lanterns high number, so that there can be a kind of the next year's life shine brightly.

The Lantern Festival is a huge difference between the north and south, each place has a different form of expression, of course, in the process of the Lantern Festival, people for dinner and some traditional activities are essential. In these activities, we can better understand the meaning of this festival. Dancing dragons, lighting lanterns, guessing riddles and singing Cantonese opera are also essential programs for Shenzhen people to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

Notes and highlights of the Lantern Festival

Guessing riddles and playing with lanterns is an important program of the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles are a kind of word game derived from the Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Tiger. The riddle will be affixed to the lanterns for people to guess shot, riddle more focus on the meaning of the text, and there are 24 kinds of riddles, commonly used curtains, swings, phoenix and other grids, has formed a unique folk culture.

Lion dance, lion dance is China's excellent folk art, every Lantern Festival or gathering celebrations, folk lion dance to cheer. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, began to popularize the North and South Dynasties, has been more than a thousand years of history. Stilt-walking is a popular mass skill performance. Stilts are a kind of ancient theater in China, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.