What changes have taken place in the customs of Lantern Festival?

The customs of Lantern Festival include: eating Yuanxiao, having lanterns, solving riddles on lanterns, playing dragon lanterns, dancing lions and staying away from all diseases.

1, eat Yuanxiao

Yuanxiao was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", contains sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion.

2. lanterns

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual Lantern Festival, so it is also called the Lantern Festival.

Step 3 solve the riddle on the lantern

Solve riddles on the lanterns has been a special activity of the Lantern Festival since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, someone wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because solve riddles on the lanterns can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded. Later, solve riddles on the lanterns gradually became an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival.

Step 4 play with dragon lanterns

Dragon lantern, also known as dragon lantern or dragon dance, can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance in the suburbs of Qing Dynasty, there was a leading bird image played by a man, and then a dance scene with six dragons interspersed with each other was arranged.

The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays. The Chinese nation advocates the dragon as a symbol of good luck, so of course dragon dancing is indispensable in traditional festivals.

5, lion dance

"Lion Dance" began in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Tang Dynasty. Also known as "lion dance" and "peace music". It is usually done by three people. Two people dressed as lions, one as the lion's head, one as the lion's body and hind feet, and one as the lion's head. Dance is divided into civilian and military. The dance shows the gentleness of the lion, shaking his hair and rolling. The military lion shows the ferocity of the lion.

6. Stay away from all diseases

"Walking away from all diseases", also known as swimming, dispelling and baking all diseases, is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for health. On the Lantern Festival night, women meet and go out together. When they see the bridge, they will cross it, thinking that this can cure diseases and prolong life. Walking away from all diseases has been a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some of which were carried out in the fifteenth, but most of them were carried out in the sixteenth.