What are the customs of Chaoshan Lantern Festival?

1. Lantern Tour

The lanterns of Chaoshan are in various forms and unique styles, including gauze lanterns and living scenery. The themes of the lanterns include flowers and fruits, insects and fishes, birds and animals, as well as characters of dramas and folk tales.

In addition to the lanterns, the streets, alleys, stores, courtyards, ancestral halls, etc. are all decorated with various kinds of lotus lanterns, plum blossom lanterns, carp lanterns, horse lanterns, etc. The lanterns are made of various kinds of materials, such as wood, wood and wood, and the lanterns are made of various kinds of materials.

2, hanging lights

In addition to the large-scale tour lantern event, families have the custom of hanging lights. Because the Chiu Chow language "light" and "Ding" homophonic, light and add Ding is close to the sound, so the Chiu Chow people think that light is a good omen for adding Ding, is the "people prosperous" performance.

3, do Ding table

Olden days, the Chaoshan villages, where the previous year's birth of a boy's family, the night of the Lantern Festival, but also in the ancestral shrine to set up a feast to celebrate "out of the Ding", commonly known as "do Ding table". It is commonly known as "Doing Ding Table". With the progress of society and people's mindset change, although the Chao people still have the custom of the Lantern Festival to do Ding table, but more changed in the home, and is limited to invite friends and relatives.

4, to the sugar lion

In some places, the Chaoshan Lantern Festival in front of the God to the sugar lion (sugar as raw material, made of lion-shaped sugar cubes), praying for a new year of good luck and good fortune to seek good luck, great luck.

5, guessing riddles

Lantern riddle table full of colorful riddles, surrounded by lights. Guess the riddle, in the master of a "dong dong dong" drum after, you can start guessing. Guessing riddles have pen guessing and oral report guessing points. Lantern riddle guessing is a popular folklore activity in Shantou City.