What are the customs of Lantern Festival?

1, eat Lantern Festival

"Lantern Festival" as a food, in China has a long history. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat novelty food. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao". In ancient times, "Lantern" is more expensive, there is a poem that says: "Your guests hook curtains to see the Royal Street, the market treasures a moment to. There is no way to walk in front of the curtains and flower racks, and no one can return without money."

2, Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is the "Lantern Festival", this festival folk have hanging lamps, playing lamps, lanterns and other customs, so also known as the Festival of Lights.

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Lantern Festival customs, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of the lanterns prevailed, and inherited in later generations.

3, guessing riddles

Guessing riddles, also known as riddles, is unique to China's rich national style of a traditional form of folk entertainment activities, from ancient times on the Lantern Festival has been passed down the characteristic activities. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the traditional folk to hang up colored lanterns, fireworks, and then there are good people to write the riddles on paper strips, pasted on the colorful lanterns for people to guess.

4, play dragon lantern

Juggling dragon lanterns, also known as dragon lanterns or dragon dance. See in the written records of the dragon dance, is the Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu", the author of the hundred plays in the narrative of the dragon dance made a vivid depiction. And according to the "Sui Book - Music Zhi" records, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, similar to the hundred plays in the dragon dance performance of the "yellow dragon change" is also very wonderful, dragon dance popular in many parts of China. China reveres the dragon as a symbol of good luck.

5, stilts

Stilts, is a popular mass skill show. Stilts are a kind of ancient Chinese opera, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in China is in the article of "Liezi": "There was a Lanzi in Song, who used his skill to dry Song Yuan. Song Yuan called and made to see his skills.