What are the activities of Guilin Lantern Festival

Guilin Lantern Festival guessing lantern riddles, opera performances, making lanterns and other activities.

1, guessing lantern riddles

Guessing lantern riddles, also known as playing lantern riddles, is China's unique folklore activities, is the Lantern Festival characteristic activities. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people write riddles on strips of paper and paste them onto colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, they are warmly welcomed and gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival.

2, opera performances

Opera is a traditional form of theater in China, which contains literature, music, dance, fine arts, martial arts, acrobatics, and various elements of performing arts. Guilin for two consecutive days, the city's Drama Creation and Research Center, Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance Center will be held in Guangxi Provincial Art Museum, the New Year Lantern Festival local opera concert.

3, do lanterns

Doing lanterns is a kind of folk culture, but nowadays, very few people do lanterns by themselves. For children, it would be a great experience for parents to continue this tradition by taking them to make them with their own hands. Making lanterns is like making lanterns for the Chinese New Year, it's only when you make them yourself that you have a sense of festive rituals, and I hope these traditions will continue.

Festival significance of the Lantern Festival:

The Lantern Festival, like the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival, and in fact, its cultural connotations and social values are far superior to those of other festivals, and it has an extraordinary significance. The Spring Festival, starting from the New Year's Eve when people close their doors to observe the New Year's Eve, to the Lantern Festival, is a process in which people continue to expand their scope of activities and interpersonal relationships. By the 15th day of the first month, all members of society, men and women, old and young, join in the festivities.

The Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival in the Chinese traditional festivals, Lantern Festival in the traditional feudal society, to the unmarried men and women to provide an opportunity to meet each other, the traditional society of young girls are not allowed to go out of the free activities, but the festival can be accompanied by a trip out to play, Lantern Festival lanterns is just an opportunity for friendship, unmarried men and women by lanterns can also be used to look for their own objects in the meantime.