Traditional customs of Lantern Festival

In the Lantern Festival, according to folk customs, people will be in the Lantern Festival node up 10,000 colored lanterns to celebrate the festival. The main folk customs that have been passed down from ancient times to the present include: going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and setting off flames, guessing lantern riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, and family reunion.

In the Lantern Festival, the most important is actually the custom of lanterns. Before the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every household will hang lanterns, lanterns and colorful, to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month will reach a climax, from the street to the end of the alley, everywhere lanterns hanging high, lively and extraordinary. And in the traditional folk customs, the Lantern Festival this day not only to home *** enjoy the moon, lit thousands of colored lanterns, eating Lantern Lantern Lantern, guessing riddles to solve puzzles, there will be a dragon lanterns or lion dance and so on traditional folklore performances.

Expanded:

The Lantern Festival Lantern Festival originated from the "Torch Festival", where ancient people held torches in the countryside to drive away insects and animals in the hope of mitigating insect pests and praying for a good harvest. Until today, people in some areas of southwestern China still make torches out of reed wood or branches on the 15th day of the first month, and dance in groups holding up the torches in the fields or sunbathing yards. Since the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, the festival has been very popular. Tens of thousands of people participated in the songs and dances, from dusk to dawn, to the end of the obscure. When with the changes of the society and the times, the Lantern Festival customs and habits have long had a big change, but is still a traditional Chinese festival.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Lantern Festival