Introduction to the custom of the Lantern Festival

1, eat Lantern Festival

Eat Lantern Festival is also known as eating dumplings, Lantern Festival that is dumplings, is a very tasty food, and it is the practice of ingredients of different flavors, but its significance no matter where it is the same, dumplings, the symbolism is "reunion", the family in the Lantern Festival day reunion, so no matter how busy, no matter where the Lantern Festival is to eat Lantern Festival, is to eat. No matter how busy, no matter where, the Lantern Festival is to eat the dumplings.

2, watch lanterns

Watch lanterns is the Lantern Festival traditional holiday customs, ancient times, the city and countryside, everywhere, lights and colorful, unprecedented. At that time, regardless of the royal relatives, the common people, can break the routine, out to play. Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is an opportunity for friendship, unmarried men and women to enjoy the lanterns can also be used to find their own objects. The modern world is not like that," he said.

3, guess the lantern riddle

Since there are lanterns how can not guess the lantern riddle? Lantern riddle is a 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, the riddle more focus on the meaning of the text, and there are 24 kinds of riddles, commonly used curtains, swings, phoenix, etc. Grid, has formed a Lantern Festival of a unique folk culture.

The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of the first yuan, the night of the first yuan, the Festival of Lights. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the night "night", so the first month of the fifteenth for the "Lantern Festival". With the changes in society and time, the customs of the Lantern Festival have long been changed, but it is still a traditional Chinese folk festival. Lantern Festival in the early process of formation of the festival, only known as the 15th day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the moon, after Sui called Yuan Xi or Yuan Night.

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China since ancient times, the Lantern Festival began in ancient times when people held torches in the countryside to drive away insects and beasts, hoping to alleviate insect pests and praying for a good harvest. Until today, people in some areas of southwestern China still make torches with reed wood or branches on the fifteenth day of the first month, and dance in groups holding up the torches in the fields or grain fields. Since the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, it has been even more popular.