What festivals are dragon dancing, lighting and setting off firecrackers?

Dragon dancing, lanterns and firecrackers are the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival and one of the traditional festivals in China and overseas Chinese. The first month is January of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "dawn", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year is called the Lantern Festival.

Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, liking solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, traditional folk performances have been added in many places, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing with lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums.

Introduction to the origin of Lantern Festival

The 13th day of the first month is the prelude to the Lantern Festival. This day is the Lantern Festival. All the shops and enterprises in Dongtai Old Street, including the gate, are covered with lanterns. Some of them hang lanterns in front of shops and courtyards as early as 5-7 am. There are hexagonal glass palace lanterns, mahogany frame glass palace lanterns, silk lanterns, paper lanterns and so on. Most lanterns have the words "rich in financial resources" and "congratulations on making a fortune".

Many people also put up various children's toy lanterns, such as lotus lanterns, goldfish lanterns and rabbit lanterns, which made the children very happy. In the afternoon, every household will hang various colored lights to welcome the lights. In the custom of welcoming lanterns, a lantern parade is usually held when a "God's Meeting" is held. The moon has risen, and at this time, all households are carrying prepared colored lights to the streets one after another.

First of all, the carpenter took the lead and walked on stilts. Eight people dressed up as immortals, each holding a lantern to clear the way in front. Followed by the "Tang Priest Lantern" in the catering industry, they dressed up as Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, each carrying lanterns of different shapes and performing along the street. Then all walks of life.