2. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year is called Lantern Festival.
First, the custom of the fifteenth day of the first month:
1, Dragon and Lion Dance in Lantern Festival
Dragon is an auspicious mythical animal and a totem and symbol of the nation. During the Lantern Festival, there are dragon lanterns all over the country.
The early dragon lanterns were about seven or eight feet long. Yarn is tied to a bamboo tube to make a dragon-shaped lantern. Light dozens of candles inside the faucet and dragon body, and then tie them to a wooden stick. A dozen strong men carried them away. During the performance, the dragon head chased the dragon ball and danced gracefully, commonly known as "making dragons".
2. Walking on stilts in Lantern Festival
Stilts clubs are generally organized by the masses spontaneously in series. On the 11th and 12th day of the first month, people began to take to the streets, which means to tell people that many folk flowers will be hung up this year. On the fifteenth day of the first month, I officially went to the streets until the end of the 18th National Congress.