What is the custom of eating Lantern Festival?

First, the Lantern Festival customs mainly include:

1. Eat Yuanxiao and Tangyuan.

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China, and it is said that it appeared in the Song Dynasty. Yuanxiao is glutinous rice dumplings, which contain white sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnuts, nuts and jujube paste, and are wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle. It can be vegetarian and has different flavors.

2. Lantern Festival

The custom of setting off Kongming lanterns on the Lantern Festival has been formed since the Han Dynasty. From the imperial court to the people, it formed an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty, and became a national carnival festival after the middle Tang Dynasty. At that time, there was a big lantern market in Chang 'an, with 50,000 lanterns ordered, and the whole Chang 'an was golden.

3. Stay away from all diseases

Besides celebrating the Lantern Festival, there are also religious activities. That is to say, most of the participants in "taking all kinds of diseases", also known as "baking all kinds of diseases" and "spreading all kinds of diseases" are women. They walk together or against the wall, or cross the bridge through the suburbs, with the aim of driving away diseases and eliminating disasters.