What are the customs of the Lantern Festival in Hainan

The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival in Hainan, what are the different customs? The following is a small compilation of Hainan Lantern Festival customs, welcome to read.

One, Hainan Lantern Festival customs

Unique features for the flower festival

New Year's Day 15, Haikou has a lion spring, flower puzzle play spring, Qiong Opera, singing and dancing to celebrate the spring of a number of activities, and the most distinctive when it comes to the flower festival. Every day, the city lights, people like the sea, flowers in the street. Many people in Haikou, especially young people, have flowers in hand, along the Hai Fu Avenue to Mansion City, the formation of an army of flowers. The psychology of flower exchange varies from person to person, most people exchange flowers intended for the beginning of the New Year, mutual blessings only. Young people take the Flower Exchange Festival as a great opportunity to make friends, and would like to use flowers as a matchmaker to find a soulmate. Flowers are similar year after year, and people are different year after year. The ancient Flower Exchange Festival has been given many new meanings, but its style is always romantic and cozy. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, large crowds of people of all nationalities and ages flock to Fucheng Town to participate in the Flower Changing Festival.

Eating Ai Po at Lantern Festival reaps good fortune and happiness

Dingan Ai Po wafts out a strong coconut fragrance?

The festival is a tradition in Dingan. Ai Po is a snack made of glutinous rice flour wrapped with fillings, there are a variety of fillings, sesame, peanuts, shredded coconut and so on. However, it does not focus on the fillings, but more on whether the glutinous rice skin is steamed to be soft and smooth without sticking, which is the real kung fu. Peel off the outer layer of green leaves, gently bite, sticky, smooth, sweet, soft, a clear coconut flavor. The Lantern Festival eating Ai Po symbolizes good luck and happiness, sweetness and fragrance, harvest and joy, friendship and affection.

The puppets perform together? Lantern Festival

Lingao Lantern Festival have the habit of puppet theater. Puppet theater, also known as? Gongzai theater? Lingao Puppet Theater is characterized by? Puppetry is characterized by the fact that it is performed with puppets. Stage without hanging scrolls, actors and puppets in disguise on stage at the same time, actors and puppets in disguise on the stage, the actor Prime Battle head puppet, each other as a whole, playing the same role, puppet cross-performance, from ancient times to the present day, since a school, and become China's puppetry art garden of a rare type of theater. Lingao puppet theater is said to have originated from the local villagers praying for peace and a play.

Hainan people enthusiastically stepped on stilts to celebrate the arrival of the Lantern Festival

There are ? China's hometown of folk art? known as Lingao, the Lantern Festival activities are colorful, in addition to puppet shows, there is a strong local flavor of the drums. The night of the first month of the 15th, Wenlan River, a joyful, Lingao urban and rural masses, singing fishing songs? Li Li Mei? and the mountain song "Teenage Moli". Teenage Moli?

Second, the Lantern Festival

Every year on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Spring Festival, ushered in is the traditional Chinese festival - Lantern Festival.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the night for ? night? , so it is called the 15th day of the first month as the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, but also the beginning of the year, the night of spring, people celebrate this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the New Year. Lantern Festival is also known as? The Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of the New Year".

According to Chinese folk tradition, on this day the moon is high in the night, people have to point up ten thousand colored lanterns, to show the celebration. Go out and enjoy the moon, light up the lanterns and set off the fireworks, guess the lantern riddles, *** eat the Lantern Festival, family reunions, celebrating the festival together, and have a good time.

The Lantern Festival is also known as the Festival of Lights, Lantern Lights Lantern custom from the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, more prosperous light-appreciation activities, the palace, hanging lights everywhere on the street, but also to establish a tall lamp wheel, lamps, lamps, and lamps and trees, the great Tang poet Lu Zhaolian was in the "fifteenth night to watch the lights" in this way to describe the Lantern Festival lanterns of the pomp and circumstance? The stars are falling from the Han Dynasty, and the moon is hanging from the building.

The Song Dynasty attached more importance to the Lantern Festival, more lively lantern-appreciation activities, lantern-appreciation activities to be carried out for five days, the style of the lamp is also more abundant. The Ming Dynasty to 10 consecutive days, which is China's longest Lantern Festival. Although the Qing Dynasty lantern-viewing activities only 3 days, but the lantern-viewing activities on a large scale, unprecedented, in addition to burning lights, but also fireworks to help.

The lantern riddles? Also known as? Playing lantern riddles? , is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital city of Lin'an made riddles every Lantern Festival, and there were many people guessing riddles. In the beginning, riddles were written on strips of paper and pasted on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because the riddles can inspire wisdom and interest, so the process of circulation is very popular among all social classes.

The folk custom of eating Lantern Festival. Lanterns are made of glutinous rice, either solid or with filling. The fillings include bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, and various kinds of fruits, etc. They can be boiled, fried, steamed, or deep-fried when eaten. At first, people called this food ? Floating rounds? and later on, they were also called "soup dumplings". Soup dumplings? or? Tangyuan? These names were also used to describe the dumplings. Reunion? The word sound similar, take the meaning of reunion, symbolizing the family reunion, harmony and happiness, people also use this nostalgia for parted loved ones, send a good hope for the future of life.

Some places have a Lantern Festival? The custom of the Lantern Festival in some places is to walk away from all the diseases. The custom of the Lantern Festival, also known as? Bake a hundred diseases? Sending a hundred diseases?

In some places, the Lantern Festival also has the custom of "Walking for a hundred diseases", also known as "Baking for a hundred diseases" and "Dispersing for a hundred diseases", in which the participants, mostly women, walk in pairs, by a wall or across a bridge, or in the countryside, with the aim of driving away diseases and calamities.

With the passage of time, the Lantern Festival activities are more and more, many local festivals added to the dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing the dry boat twisting rice-planting songs, playing the drums and other traditional folklore performances. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, is not only prevalent on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but is also celebrated year after year in overseas Chinese settlements.

Three, Lantern Festival origin

Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, as early as 2,000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival began to enjoy the lights of the Eastern Han Dynasty Mingdi period, the Mingdi advocate of Buddhism, heard that the Buddhist monks on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Buddha's relics, lighted lamps in honor of the Buddha's practice, the night of the day on the order in the Imperial Palace and temples lighted lamps in honor of the Buddha, so that the scholarly people are hanging lights. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. The festival has gone through a process of development from the palace to the folk, from the Central Plains to the whole country.

In the time of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, the 15th day of the first month has been ordered to be designated as the Lantern Festival. At the time of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, ? Taiyi God? s worship was set on the 15th day of the first month. (Taiyi: the god who dominates everything in the universe). Sima Qian created the "Tai Chou Calendar" (太初历). When Sima Qian created the Taichu Calendar, he already set the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. (the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar).

Another theory is that the custom of burning lanterns at the Lantern Festival originated in Taoism. The first day of the first month is the 15th day of the first month of the year. ; the 15th day of the first month is the Upper Yuan Festival, the 15th day of the 7th month is the Middle Yuan Festival, and the 15th day of the 10th month is the Lower Yuan Festival. In charge of the upper, middle and lower three yuan respectively for heaven, earth, human three officials, the heavenly officials happy, so the upper yuan festival to light.

The Lantern Festival festival period and festival activities, is with the development of history and extend, expand. In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is since the eighth light, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month of the lights, the whole ten days. With the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular. Especially the delicate, colorful lights, making it the climax of the entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. To the Qing Dynasty, and added a dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilts, rice-planting songs, etc.? Hundreds of plays? Content, but the festival was shortened to four to five days.