What do people do on the Lantern Festival? What to eat on Lantern Festival?

People's activities on the Lantern Festival

1, lantern

On the festival day, people have the custom of hanging lanterns, lighting lanterns and watching lanterns, so it is also called the Lantern Festival. Yuanxiao originated in the Western Han Dynasty, and the fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual Yuanxiao fireworks. Before the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets were covered with lanterns, flowers and lights. People go shopping and enjoy the beautiful scenery at night.

2. Solve the riddle on the lantern

Playing riddles, also known as lantern riddles, is a unique traditional folk entertainment form with rich national style in China, and it is a characteristic activity of Lantern Festival spread since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies 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. Lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere, showing the intelligence and wisdom of ancient working people and their yearning for a better life.

3. Dragon Dance Lantern

According to legend, as early as the Yellow Emperor period, there was a leading bird played by a man in a large-scale song and dance in the suburbs of Qing Dynasty, and then six dragon dance scenes were arranged, and the dragon dance was vividly described in Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu" in the Han Dynasty. Dragon dancing is very popular in many places in China. The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols.

4, lion dance

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.

Step 5 row a dry boat

Legend has it that rowing a dry boat is to commemorate Dayu, who made great contributions to water control. 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 a girl's waist, just like sitting on a boat, rowing with paddles in hand, singing and jumping while running, which is popular in many areas of China.

Food for the Lantern Festival.

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. At that time, a novel Lantern Festival food popular among the people was called "Floating Zi Yuan", which was later called "Lantern Festival".

It is still called "Yuanxiao" in the north and "Tangyuan" in the south. These are two foods with different practices and tastes, but the fillings are similar, including sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. There are also newly developed flower fillings or chocolate fillings, which are wrapped in glutinous rice flour and rounded, boiled in soup, fried and steamed.

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