Lantern Festival Festival time and festival customs

The Lantern Festival in 2023 is on February 5, 2023, the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and the festival customs of the Lantern Festival include eating Yuanxiao and enjoying lanterns.

1. Eating Yuanxiao

Yuanxiao is the festival food for the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. With sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste and other fillings, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, can be boiled in soup, deep-fried, steamed, symbolizing the harvest and harmony of the day as ring without end. Legend has it that it originated in the late Spring and Autumn period. Tang Dynasty known as the noodle cocoon, round without falling mud.

2, Lantern Appreciation

Lantern Appreciation is an important celebration of the Lantern Festival. Every Lantern Festival around the lights set up a market, hanging and selling all kinds of lanterns. Nowadays, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing and other places, often in the Lantern Festival or held a large-scale lantern exhibition, displaying the characteristics of the lanterns around the country, for people to enjoy. Harbin and other northern cities in the Lantern Festival held during the exhibition of ice lanterns, made of ice and snow into the shape of colored lanterns.

Customs of the Lantern Festival:

1, East China

Binzhou, Shandong Province, East China, the Lantern Festival has the custom of lighting. The night of the Lantern Festival, the boy carrying a lamp, around the jujube tree six laps, while chanting under his breath, "Duoluo Duoluo, blossom jujube," in order to pray for the home of the jujube tree in the coming year to get a bumper harvest. Rizhao area "go old appearance", the waterfront area of the family put the river lamps, in order to seek happiness and peace in the coming year.

2, Northwest

The day of the first month of the fifteenth, Shaanxi Province, married women to bring their husbands back to their parents' homes to eat the Lantern Festival, in addition, the local custom of sending lights. From the fifth day of the first month, the activity of sending lamps begins. Uncle to nephew to send lanterns, as the saying goes, "nephews playing lanterns - as usual (uncle). In addition, there is a godfather to goddaughter to send the lamp, after receiving the lamp, play and play, called "play lamp" "lamp".