Are the Lantern Festival customs the same across the country?

On the 15th day of the first month, February 15th, we celebrate the annual Lantern Festival. When most Chinese people think of the Lantern Festival, a warm flavor springs up inside. I vaguely remember the Lantern Festival and the lion dance when I was a child, and it is still fresh in my mind. The custom that everyone **** has on the Lantern Festival is to eat soup dumplings. And in each province, the Lantern Festival customs and different.

1, Beijing Lantern Festival

Mention of the Lantern Festival, it is necessary to mention the old Beijing. As one of the cities with the heaviest New Year's flavor in the country, Beijing is equally lively during the Lantern Festival. And flower and lantern fairs are the way Beijingers celebrate the Lantern Festival. The annual Shangyuan Lantern Festival is a lively event where people come out for sightseeing and every household is decorated with lanterns to celebrate the festival.

As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Shangyuan Lantern Festival has formed a custom that Beijingers use to welcome the Lantern Festival, "People have to light up 10,000 colored lanterns to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and fireworks, guessing lantern riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, family reunion, celebrating the festival together, a happy and joyful."

2, Sichuan put the sky lantern

The Lantern Festival put the sky lantern has become the custom of the Sichuan people, the sky lantern is also known as the Kongming lamp, for the Three Kingdoms period Zhuge Liang invented. People write down their wishes in the lanterns and then light them to release them into the sky in the hope that their dreams will come true.

3, the Naxi people over the "stick will"

Every time this time, the Naxi people in Yunnan Province will begin to gather. Local lamas chanting to the temple, the villagers into the incense to worship Maitreya Buddha, and then gradually evolved into a farm equipment trade fair, which is used as an axe handle, hoe handle, hammer handle, etc. most of the wooden stick stick, so it is referred to as the "stick stick will be". After the first month of the fifteenth, the year is over, we need to add some more equipment to the family, ready to meet the new year.

4, Guangdong to eat fragrant pills

In Dongguan, Guangdong, there is a kind of Lantern Festival must eat food - fragrant pills. Xiangwan round, about a centimeter in diameter, is made of late-made dryland glutinous rice soaked 7 days after the formation of the winter solstice powder made of hollow, into the mouth that is melted. When friends and relatives visit each other, they always receive a few joss sticks from their hosts and eat them to show that they have a relationship with their hosts.

5, Taiwan Province, "steal vegetables"

Taiwan, there are unmarried women in the night of the Lantern Festival picking green onions or vegetables will be married to a good husband's traditional custom, commonly known as: "Stealing green onions, marry a good inibs", "Stealing green onions, marry a good inibs", "Stealing green onions, marry a good inibs", "Stealing green onions, marry a good inibs".

6, Singapore to eat dumplings

In Singapore, the Lantern Festival, also known as Chap Goh Mei (is the pronunciation of the Minnan language "fifteen all night"), as the name suggests is the fifteenth night of the Lunar New Year, the fifteenth of the New Year, the New Year will be over. It is said that there is a tradition in Singapore that New Year's red envelopes are not opened until the Lantern Festival, not only so that children know how to be grateful to their elders for giving them red envelopes, but also to give them more time to think in anticipation about what exactly they should do with the money.

Most Chinese Singaporeans have ancestors from the south, so Chinese Singaporeans will eat soup dumplings on the Lantern Festival. Ah Balling, a stuffed soup dumpling that originated in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, is a common snack in Singapore. These dumplings float on sugar water when cooked, like a white mother duck floating on the surface of the water.

The Lantern Festival is also celebrated with dragon and lion dances across the island, and people also choose to visit temples to pray for the New Year.

7, Malaysia throw fruit

Lantern Festival is one of the major traditional festivals of the Chinese in Malaysia. In Malaysia, in addition to maintaining the custom of eating lanterns, light lanterns, there is an interesting activity, that is, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, unmarried men and women throw each other fruits, the boy threw bananas to the girl, the girl threw to the boy mandarin, but also in the fruit on the contact number, in the hope of finding a good marriage. The custom of "throwing mandarin oranges and catching bananas" is lively and romantic, and is very distinctive, as young people use it to hope to find a good husband or a gentle girl in the future.

8, Vietnam "New Year's Day"

Vietnamese people believe that the Lantern Festival symbolizes the end of the New Year, and everyone should devote themselves to work, so at noon on the Lantern Festival, the family must be reunited to eat a meal "New Year's Day! Therefore, at noon of the Lantern Festival, families must get together and have a "New Year's Dinner" to boost the morale of their families and to pray for the success of young people in their work and the progress of children in their studies. Moreover, the "New Year's dinner" is no less than a sumptuous meal on New Year's Eve. In some areas of Vietnam, a parade around the Thien Hau Palace is also held on the New Year's Eve to pray for good weather conditions and peace of the nation.

9, Thai dumplings

With the migration of Chinese, the Lantern Festival has taken root in Thailand and become a traditional food for the Thai people. Thai Lanterns are colorful balls. The colors are mainly derived from natural ingredients, such as green taro leaves, blue from Anchan flowers, light yellow from sweet potatoes, orange from carrots, yellow from pumpkins, and purple from taro.

Of course there are many other local specialties to celebrate the Lantern Festival, I wonder how you celebrate it there?