Customs of Lantern Festival

Every Lantern Festival, people will go out of their homes, flocking to the streets, in addition to lanterns, riddles, there are dancing dragons, stilt walkers, running boats, lion dance, knocking Zhoushan gongs and drums of which there are a lot of customs and activities are national intangible cultural heritage. Lighting lanterns and fireworks, go out to enjoy the moon, happy to guess the riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, with the celebration, so that the general public to participate in it, *** with the enjoyment of these intangible cultural heritage to us left the aesthetic memory. In addition, what other activities are there in the Lantern Festival?

The Lantern Festival, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, is not only prevalent in the north and south of the Yangtze River, that is, in the overseas Chinese settlements are also celebrated year after year.

When it comes to praying for blessings, this is also an important cultural theme of the Lantern Festival. There are many faith-based activities on the 15th day of the first lunar month to pray for blessings from the gods. Ancient people worshipped the god Taiyi (Taichi) because he was the supreme god and was in charge of human destiny. The ancients worshipped the god of earth to bless a good harvest of silkworms.

The Qing Dynasty in northern Jiangsu Province, the night of the Lantern Festival to lead the fire to burn the field, praying for a good harvest, nursery rhymes sing: lanterns bright, torches red, the fifteenth day of the first month of the fried hemp worm, the field side of the field side of the fried, fried pests without a trace of the shadow. There is also the custom of hanging lanterns to light up the dark corners of the house, symbolizing that all the dark corners of the house are illuminated to drive away evil spirits and bring good fortune. In addition, Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, there are women's Lantern Festival praying for children's customs.

The Lantern Festival is particularly influential in the Han culture region. In Singapore, where many Chinese live, many people hold lantern displays during the Lantern Festival. Buddhist believers go to temples to worship, for the new year to pray for blessings; South Korea on the fifteenth day of the first month is called Jungdaewang day, which means looking at the full moon. On this day, although they do not eat the Lantern, but will be sorghum rice, small red beans and other grains made of grains and rice, as a holiday food. And in the countryside, there is the custom of burning the moon house full moon rise, people with the hands of the torch lit moon house, around the fire singing and dancing.

It can be seen that the Lantern Festival, the festival of all the people, once the international community's attention and acceptance, the national festival culture will stand in the world of culture.