What are the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival in Gushi County?

Lantern Festival: The 15th day of the first month, also known as Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. There is a folk saying that the fifteenth day of the first month is like a year. Grab breakfast early and eat more jiaozi, which symbolizes early planting and early harvest. After dark, every household lights up and sets off firecrackers. In rural areas, people will send lanterns to graves after dinner, and each of them will put a lamp in his grave. Neighbors get together to play with lanterns, watch lanterns, dance lions, play with dragons and set off fireworks.

In some places, it started on the night of 13, from trial light, main light to scattered light for several days, and some even played until the second day of February. Farmers in mountainous areas make noodles into various shapes such as chicken, duck, goose, pig, cotton peach and wheat pile. At night, put them at the gate, cowshed, pigsty, chicken coop, etc. , symbolizing the prosperity of six livestock in the new year. Xinxian and Guangshan have the custom of "calling fifteen and visiting sixteen". /kloc-on the morning of 0/6, men, women and children put on new clothes and went for an outing.

It is also said that the 16th day of the first month is the day when rats marry women, so people go to bed early on this day to avoid "one person quarrels with rats all night, and rats quarrel with others for a year". In recent years, Xinyang City has held lantern festivals, and some counties have also organized lantern festivals. Lights of different shapes are arranged on both sides of the street, which are colorful and compete with each other.