Yimeng Mountain Lantern Festival Folk Custom

Yimeng Mountain Lantern Festival folklore;

The fifteenth day of the first month is also called Lantern Festival, Shangyuan Festival or after the fifteenth day of the first month. Most urban and rural residents use millet flour, glutinous rice flour or sticky sorghum flour as skin, and brown sugar or white sugar as stuffing to make Yuanxiao. Locals usually call it "tangyuan" or "sugar ball", which symbolizes family reunion and good luck. Send a lamp to Zu at night. When you get home, light a lamp made of white flour, which symbolizes December or the Chinese Zodiac. It shines everywhere, so that the omen of light is clean and no insects and scorpions are born. Children carry lanterns in groups of three and five, put "Didi Jin" on them, and illuminate all parts of their bodies with face lamps under the guidance of adults, indicating that their eyes are bright and they are not sick. Streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and folk cultural activities such as supporting dry boats, walking on stilts, riding donkeys, playing dragon lanterns and dancing yangko are held, which is called "Lantern Festival".

Now, after the fifteenth day of the first month, the lights are bright, the fire trees are colorful, people are scrambling to watch, and the lively atmosphere is full of the flavor of the year.