1, Shanxi hanging lanterns
Hanging lanterns is an essential form for Shanxi people to celebrate the Lantern Festival. When the Lantern Festival comes, every household hangs all kinds of lights, from 14th to 16th, which are turned on every night. Setting off fireworks is the most gratifying activity of the People's Lantern Festival in Shanxi. Fireworks will be set off in the square on Lantern Festival night, and the whole family will go to the street to see the beautiful fireworks.
2. Recreational activities in Shandong
Carrying out recreational activities is an important part of the Lantern Festival. There are various forms of juggling, such as lion dance, dragon lantern dance, stilts, roller boat and Hua Gun. Every village around Qufu City plays with dragon lanterns, and the dragon lanterns in every village have to be performed in Confucius House. The place where Confucius plays dragon lanterns is in front of the lobby in the second gate, which is not allowed to enter at ordinary times. At this time, outsiders are also allowed to enter to watch dragon lanterns. When playing with dragon lanterns, the servants of Confucius and the "fireworks households" set off fireworks.
3. Light a lamp in front of the ancestral grave in Henan
The most unique custom of Changxing Henan people is that on the Lantern Festival night, every family has to tie lanterns with bamboo and red paper in front of their ancestors' graves and light the candles between them to burn out. The general custom of Lantern Festival is to enjoy lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, eat glutinous rice balls and dance lions. Even Henan people rarely light lanterns in front of their ancestors' graves.
4. Put sky lanterns in Shaanxi
During the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, in addition to the big lanterns, there is also a custom of "putting sky lanterns". This custom has a long history. According to the history, it was done in the Tang Dynasty. "steamed buns with lights" are popular in Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province. Every year, on the 15th day of the first lunar month, during the Lantern Festival, families set up incense tables, lit candles and set off firecrackers in their houses. Lights are lit everywhere in the house, and there are all kinds of flower buns next to the lights, which are called "lanterns with lanterns".
5. Jiangsu eats Yuanxiao.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuanxiao was eaten. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". Eating Yuanxiao means that the days are getting more prosperous, and life is round and beautiful.