How will we spend the Lantern Festival?

[Edit this paragraph] Lantern Festival custom Since the formation of the custom of decorating lanterns in the Lantern Festival, viewing lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month has been a great event in all dynasties. Emperor Wen of Liang Jian once wrote a poem "Li Edeng Fu": "The south is full of oil, and the west is full of paint. Su Zheng is resting in peace, and the wax comes out of Longchuan. " Oblique light sets each other off, and the reflection is clear. "It depicts the grand occasion of the court decorating lanterns during the Lantern Festival. During the reign of Yang Di, a grand banquet was held every year on the 15th day of the first month to entertain guests and envoys from all over the world. According to the Records of Music in Sui Shu, the Lantern Festival is very grand, with lanterns and colorful decorations everywhere, singing and dancing day and night, with more than 30,000 performers and more than 0.8 million musicians. The stage is eight miles long, and countless people are watching lanterns, staying up all night, enjoying themselves and being very lively. In the Tang dynasty, it developed into an unprecedented lantern market, and after the middle Tang dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. In the prosperous period of the Tang Xuanzong Kaiyuan (685-762 AD), the lantern market in Chang 'an was very large, with 50,000 lanterns and all kinds of lanterns. The emperor ordered 20 giant lantern buildings with a height of 150 feet, resplendent and magnificent. In the Tang dynasty, a curfew was imposed, and it was forbidden to travel when drums were banned at night. Those who committed crimes at night were punished. Only on the Lantern Festival did the emperor grant a three-day ban, which was called "letting the night go". In the Song Dynasty, lanterns were extended from three nights to five nights. In addition to lanterns, fireworks were set off, and various juggling performances were held, making the scene more lively. "Tokyo Dream" records that during the Lantern Festival, on the Imperial Street in Kaifeng, 10,000 lanterns piled up into a lantern mountain, and the lanterns were fireworks, resplendent and magnificent. The girls in Kyoto are singing and dancing, and people are watching. "Tourists gather under the colonnade of Yujie Street, each with extraordinary achievements, dancing, tangency, and more than ten miles of music and noise." Streets and alleys, teahouses and restaurants, lights and candles are burning together, gongs and drums are loud, firecrackers are ringing, and hundreds of miles of lights are on.

In the Ming Dynasty, after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, in order to make the capital prosperous and lively, he also stipulated that the lights should be turned off on the eighth day of the first month and on the seventeenth day for ten consecutive nights. All kinds of figures are depicted on lanterns, dancing, birds flying, dragons dancing, lanterns and fireworks shining all night, drums and music ringing, which is the longest Lantern Festival in China. In the Qing Dynasty, Manchu entered the Central Plains. The date was shortened to five days and continues to this day.

Solve riddles; solve lantern riddles; guess riddles on hanging lanterns

"Lantern riddle", also known as "playing riddles", is an added activity after the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles first developed from riddles and originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. This is a literary game full of ridicule, discipline, humor and banter. Lantern riddles hung on lanterns for people to guess and shoot began in the Southern Song Dynasty. "Old Things in Wulin: Lights" records: "People make poems with silk lanterns, laugh at them, draw characters, hide their heads and slang, and tease pedestrians." Lantern Festival, the imperial city stays up all night, and the Lantern Festival is enjoyed in spring. People are mixed. Poems and riddles are written on lanterns, reflected on candles and listed on the road, so people can guess, so they are called "riddles". Now every Lantern Festival, playing riddles is everywhere. I hope this year is festive and safe. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of communication.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, various acrobatic skills began to appear in the lantern market. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, besides riddles and hundreds of operas, there were also opera performances.

In addition to visiting the lantern market, people in the past dynasties also had customs such as welcoming children to visit Ce Shen, crossing the bridge and touching nails to walk away from all diseases, and playing games such as Taiping Drum, Yangko, stilts, dragon dance and lion dance.

Lantern Festival in traditional society is a folk festival that both urban and rural areas attach importance to. It is particularly lively in the city, which embodies the unique carnival spirit of China people. The traditional Lantern Festival's function of festival customs has been dispelled by daily life, and people have gradually lost their spiritual interest. The complicated holiday custom is simplified to the eating custom of "eating Yuanxiao". Dance dragon lantern

Play with dragon lanterns

Playing dragon lanterns, also known as dragon lanterns or dragon dancing. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor period, in a large-scale song and dance in the suburbs of Qing Dynasty, there was an image of a leading bird 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. According to the records in Sui Shu Le, Huanglongbian, which was similar to the dragon dance performance in one hundred plays in Yang Di period, was also very wonderful, and dragon dance was very popular in many places in China. The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols.

walk on stilts

Walking on stilts is a popular folk performance. Stilts originally belonged to one of the hundred ancient operas in China, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. In China, stilts first appeared in Liezi Fu Shuo: "Those who had orchids in the Song Dynasty used their skills to dry the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Summoned in the Song and Yuan Dynasties to see their skills.

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. Folk Traditional Program-Lion Dance

Dry boating

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 wooden boards, sawed into a boat shape, tied with bamboo and wood, covered with colored cloth and tied around the girl's waist, just like sitting on a boat, rowing with paddles in hand, singing and jumping while running. This is a dry ship. Sometimes, another man dressed as a boatman performs with his partners, mostly dressed as a clown, and amuses the audience with all kinds of funny actions. Dry boats are very popular in many areas of our country.

Sacrifice the door and family

There were "seven sacrifices" in ancient times, which were two of them. The method of sacrifice is to insert poplar branches above the door, insert a pair of chopsticks in a bowl filled with bean porridge, or put wine and meat directly in front of the door.

Mouse chase

This activity is mainly aimed at sericulture families. Because mice often eat silkworms in large areas at night, it is said that they can stop eating silkworms by feeding them rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month. As a result, these people cooked a large pot of sticky porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, and some even covered it with a layer of meat. They put porridge in a bowl and put it on the ceiling, corner and mouth where mice haunt, cursing that mice will not die a natural death if they eat silkworm babies again.

According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, on the fifteenth day of the first month, a fairy descended to a family named Chen and said to them, If you can sacrifice to me, your sericulture will be harvested this year. Later, a custom was formed.

Send a children's lamp.

Short for "sending lanterns", it is also called "sending lanterns", that is, before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family sends lanterns to the newly married daughter's house, or ordinary relatives and friends give them to the newly married infertile family to add auspiciousness, because "lamp" is homophonic with "Ding". This custom exists in many places. In Xi city, Shaanxi province, lanterns are put on from the eighth to the fifteenth day of the first month. In the first year, a pair of palace lanterns and a pair of stained glass lamps were presented. I hope my daughter will be lucky after marriage and have children early. If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the big palace lantern, she should also send one or two small lanterns to wish her a safe pregnancy.

Yingzigu

Zigu is also called Gucci, and in the north she is called toilet aunt and pit aunt. The ancient folk custom is to offer sacrifices to Ce Shen Zigu on the 15th day of the first month, and to offer sacrifices to silkworm and mulberry, which shows many things. Legend has it that Zi Guyuan was a concubine and was envied by her eldest daughter. On the fifteenth day of the first month, he was killed in the toilet and became Ce Shen. So most people make their daughter-in-law into the shape of a woman and greet her in the pigsty in the toilet at night. This custom is popular in the north and south, and it was recorded as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

On the Lantern Festival, "walk through all diseases" to seek happiness.

Walking sickness

"Walk through all the diseases" is also called swimming through all the diseases, dispelling all the diseases, baking all the diseases, crossing the bridge and so on. It is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. 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. On this day, women dressed in festive costumes went out of their homes in droves, crossed the bridge for danger, went into the city, and knelt down to beg for their children until midnight.

Stealing vegetables festival

The Miao People's Vegetable Stealing Festival, which is popular in Ping Huang, Guizhou, is also held on the 15th day of the first lunar month. On this day of the festival, girls will steal other people's food in droves. It is forbidden to steal from one's own family or friends of the same sex, because stealing vegetables is related to one's marriage. So his food is limited to cabbage, and the quantity is enough for everyone to eat a meal. Stealing vegetables is not afraid of being discovered, and people who are stolen are not strange. Everyone put together the stolen dishes and made a cabbage feast. It is said that whoever eats more will get the right person early. At the same time, the silkworms they raise are also the strongest and the silks they spit out are the best.

Bawu Festival

Bawu Festival is a traditional festival of Yi people, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. "Eighth Five-Year Plan" means "coming back from hunting". Found in Heihu residential area, a branch of Yi nationality in Heqing, Yunnan. At that time, this festival was originally a custom activity to celebrate the return from hunting, and there was no fixed festival.

Yingzigu

Zi Gu is a kind and poor girl in folklore. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Zi Gu died of poverty. People sympathize with her and miss her. In some places, it is convenient to have the custom of "welcoming the daughter-in-law on the fifteenth day of the first month". Every night, people tie a life-size portrait of purple aunt with straw and cloth heads. Women have stood beside the toilet, pigsty and kitchen where Zigu often works to meet her, holding her hand like sisters, telling her sweet words and comforting her with tears. This scene is very vivid and truly reflects the thoughts and feelings of the working people who are kind, honest and sympathetic to the weak. [Edit this paragraph] The customs of Lantern Festival in different parts of China are also different in different parts of the country.

[Beijing]

The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. From the 13th to 17th of the first month, Beijingers will entertain them for five days and five nights. In the Lantern Festival in old Beijing, the most important activity is to enjoy the lanterns. In Ming Dynasty, the lantern market in Beijing was located in dengshikou, Dongcheng, and there were midnight snacks on both sides of the street, ranging from jewelry and jade articles to daily necessities. All the shops hang lanterns made of silk thread, burnt beads, bright horns, wheat straw and medulla tetrapanacis for people to watch. By the Qing Dynasty, lantern markets were all over Beijing.

Hebei Province

Yongping House Lantern Festival, where sick women gather under the kiln, is called "pottery moxibustion". Children crossing the bridge are called "Du Bai Goose". Some people cut the paper into nine paper ropes and tied them with their hands to make up for their mistakes. This is called "knotting sheep intestines". Use twelve cups to store oil, put it in a pot and steam it. According to the amount of water in the cups, predict the sunny and rainy days this month. The Shangyuan Festival in Jinghai County takes big steamed bread as its diet. Qingyun County, Lantern Festival, the man asked five ancestors to teach boxing sticks, and the woman asked Zi Gubu to take the blame.

Anhui province

Near the Lantern Festival these days, various folk art performances have been held in the street communities and rural fields of Shangyao Town, datong district, Huainan City. Colorful performances such as Flower Drum Lantern, Dragon Lantern, Lion Rolling Hydrangea, Stilts, Lifting Pavilion, Hua Gun, Lantern, Umbrella Lantern, Dry Boat, Single Knife Bridge, etc. Not only pushed the atmosphere of the New Year to a climax, but also let the young and old in Shili Baxiang appreciate the unique Huaihe customs and culture. There is an old saying on both sides of the Huaihe River that the fifteenth day of the first month is as big as a year. On the third day of the new year, people are busy saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, visiting relatives and friends, eating or playing, and the Lantern Festival is the most interesting moment.

Fuyang people are industrious and intelligent, and in the long-term production and life practice, they have continuously developed and created and formed a unique mass culture. There are vivid and rich folk arts, national dances and dramas with unique regional characteristics. Every year on the 15th day of the first lunar month, these colorful mass cultures converge into a unique Fuyang Lantern Festival. Fuyang Lantern Festival began in Sui and Tang Dynasties and prevailed in Ming Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu wrote when he was a satrap in Yingzhou: "Last year, the flower market was as bright as day. The moon rose to the willow tree, and he met me at dusk. On the first night of this year, the moon and lights were still there, the people of last year disappeared, and Man Chun's shirt sleeves were in tears. This poem shows that the Lantern Festival in Fuyang was very popular in the Song Dynasty. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival every year. On this day, people will spontaneously hang lanterns of different shapes at their doorsteps, such as flowers, birds, insects, fish and animals, zodiac lanterns and so on. Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, there are also some big plays to sing. One or more plays are duets, also called "stage plays". At the same time, families also set off all kinds of fireworks to add fun.

Shanxi province

Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, also known as Shangyuan Festival. Lantern Festival is the oldest night festival in China. According to legend, the Western Han Dynasty pacified Zhu Lu, and Emperor China began to lay the foundation stone on 1 month 15, which was designated as the Lantern Festival. The whole country celebrates festivals with lanterns and colorful decorations. The royal family, ladies and gentlemen in the deep palace can also go to the streets to watch the lights.

On the Lantern Festival, every household makes its own Lantern Festival (now monopolized by professional households). Yuanxiao, known as "floating Zi Yuan" in ancient times, is a kind of folk snack that tastes both elegant and popular, sweet but not greasy, and is popular all over the country. The stars are in the dark clouds and the beads are floating in the turbid water. "Light circles are more delicious than chicken head meat, and crab eye soup is better when you are bored." No wonder ancient poets described the Lantern Festival so much that it has been popular for thousands of years.

Hanging lanterns is an essential form for Shanxi people to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is coming, and all kinds of lanterns are hung in every household. 14 to 16 are on every night. Seen from a distance, the buildings are decorated with colorful lanterns, making the whole city brilliant. All units are also scrambling to make all kinds of lanterns and hang them on the street for people to enjoy. There are countless styles of lanterns, including animals, zodiac, riddles and palace lanterns. There are drum lights, cake-moistening lights, fish and shrimp, chicken, duck and goose lights, orange, banana and pineapple lights, palace lights, wishful lights, silk lights, glass lights and lantern lights ... all kinds of colors. .

Setting off fireworks is the most gratifying activity of Shanxi Lantern Festival. Fireworks will be set off in the square on the night of Lantern Festival. At that time, the whole family would go out to see the beautiful fireworks. Fireworks will be more and more beautiful, bigger and bigger, with higher and higher technology content and more and more beautiful colors.

Literature and art stepping on the street can be called a folk culture makeup parade. Dress up stories, adorn jewelry, bells and drums are loud, and a country is crazy. (Qiao Ming Yuan's Min Shu). From 14 to 16, for three consecutive days, all counties and districts organized various cultural performances to come to our city, including folk art, modern art exhibition, traditional literature and art, ancient music, concerts and costume dramas, with countless patterns. Hold a large-scale light show. All units want to hold a large-scale colorful light show in the street. Some represent auspiciousness, some represent happiness, some represent ancient legends, and some are of educational significance.

Shandong Province

People in Zichuan District of Zibo will put more river lanterns on the water during the Lantern Festival. Ningyang County, Tai 'an City sends lanterns to ancestral graves during the Lantern Festival. Boxing County, Binzhou City, has the custom of having some lights. Boys carry lanterns, walk around the jujube tree six times and say "Du Lao Du Lao, blossom and bear jujube" six times, which can make the jujube tree harvest. Men, women and children in Ju (j incarnation) County of Rizhao City go for an outing in the wild on the 16th day of the first month, which is called "walking the old face". It is said that walking once a year can keep them young forever.

Henan Province

Eating wonton at the Lantern Festival in Xiangcheng County is called "reunion tea". The bride's family took her married daughter home for the holidays. During the Lantern Festival in the county, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled all use fire to moxibustion stone turtles. If there is a river bridge in the area, cross it at the same speed. If there is no bridge, build an "overpass" with wooden boards several feet high, which is called "walking all diseases"

Shanxi(Province)

Fengxiang county fetes his daughter and son-in-law at the Lantern Festival, which is called "Eating Fifteen". And sending lights to send oil is called "adding oil".

Jiangsu Province

In Wujin County, people tied reeds into a wishing torch on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty and put it in the ground, which is called "Zhao Tian Cai" to predict the morning and evening. White fire is water, and Rise of the Legend is drought. On the Lantern Festival in Yixing, children wear ghost masks, bend their feet and jump around with their shoulders shaking, which is called "jumping ghosts".

Zhejiang Province

It is said in Hangzhou that the 15th day of the first month is the day when God blessed the people of Shangyuan. They went to Wu Shan to worship. The most famous Lantern Festival in Haining is the exquisite chrysanthemum lantern. Shangyu County will compete in martial arts on the platform before the Lantern Festival. In Jiande County, if someone has a new wife, a wine sacrifice bed will be set on the Lantern Festival.

Jiangxi province

People in Xinjian county sweep graves and use bamboo as lanterns during the Lantern Festival. Every town in wanan county worships Shenzhou on the Lantern Festival.

Hubei province

The old farmer in Yunmeng County (now Jianghan) took a torch to Pu Tian at midnight snack, which was called "taking a photo of a Jedi silkworm". Children greet God with drums and fields and predict the future. Wuchang's "dragon making" will last for three days. All the men, women and children in the village follow the dragon lantern to the neighboring village for dinner, which is called "Dragon for Wine".

Hunan province

In Shangyuan, Changde, families use peppers to make soup and add leeks and fruits to entertain guests, which is called "time soup". After swimming in the dragon lantern in Xintian County, the dragon lantern was lit, which is called "sending disaster".

Sichuan Province

Sichuan Lantern Festival has the custom of "four steals": "one steals jiaozi, the other steals green, the third steals eaves lamps and the fourth steals red." Except for stealing youth and strengthening the body, the rest are customs of seeking children. There is a custom of "cursing" in Kaixian County. On the Lantern Festival, people move the benches outdoors and scold all the grievances at ordinary times. Those who are scolded are not allowed to scold them back.

Fujian Province

Quanzhou lanterns are unique, including incense lanterns, origami lotus lanterns, silk palace lanterns and eight knots lanterns. Temples in Shaowu County welcome incense around the border at midnight snack, which is called "Clean Street". In southern Fujian, there is a custom that children in two villages throw stones at each other for fun at the Lantern Festival. It is said that there will be a plague in that village if stones are not thrown.

Guangdong Province

Last year, boys were born in Xin 'an County, and they all celebrated with lanterns at midnight. When Nanxiong lit the lamp, parents took down the dragon beard thread from the dragon lantern and tied it for the children. It is said that children can be protected from diseases. He still took the candle left in the dragon lantern and shone it under the bed. It is said that he can give birth to your son. When people steal midnight snacks in Wenchang county, it is a good omen for the thief to be scolded, and for those who can't steal, it is a good omen not to be scolded.

Yunnan Province

Yunlong county greeted the three gods before the Lantern Festival and set up a shed along the street to offer sacrifices. Burning incense on the bridge on the second day of Maitreya Lantern Festival, throwing stones into the water, and then washing your eyes with water, it is said that you can get rid of the disease. Eating Lantern Festival is the same custom all over the country. This kind of food first appeared in the Song Dynasty. The poet Jiang Baishi wrote in the poem Ode to the Lantern Festival: "Guests look at the Imperial Street with a hook curtain, and the treasures in the city come at once." This "city treasure" refers to the Lantern Festival. Zhou Bida, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Boiling and Floating Zi Yuan in the Lantern Festival": What is the evening? So is reunion. Tang officials patrol the old flavor, and the kitchen service makes new contributions. Stars in dark clouds, beads floating in turbid water. 18-year-old miscellaneous poems, there is this sentence about family style.

Taiwan Province Province

In Taiwan Province Province, there is also a traditional custom that unmarried women who steal onions or vegetables at midnight will marry a good husband, commonly known as "stealing onions and marrying a good wife" and "stealing vegetables and marrying a good husband". I hope that a girl with a happy marriage will steal onions or vegetables in the garden at midnight snack, hoping to have a happy family in the future. There are hundreds of dances and performances in the Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty, and there are thousands of maids.