What are the traditional activities of Lantern Festival?

Decorate with lanterns, solve riddles on lanterns, play with dragon lanterns, walk on stilts, dance lions and row dry boats.

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever the Lantern Festival or the celebration of the General Assembly, people always come to the lion dance to entertain. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a history of 1000 years.

Rowing a dry boat, folklore is to commemorate Dayu who has made great contributions to water control. Rowing a dry boat, also known as running a dry boat, is an imitation of a boat on land, and the performers are mostly girls. Dry boat is not a real boat. It is made of two thin plates, sawed into a boat shape, bound with bamboo and wood, covered with colored cloth, and tied around the waist of a girl.

It's like sitting on a boat, paddling, running, singing some local songs and dancing at the same time. This is rowing a dry boat. Sometimes another person will dress up as a boatman and perform with him.