Handwritten materials of blackboard newspaper for Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, so it is celebrated all over the country. The customs in most areas are similar, but each place still has its own characteristics.
eat yuanxiao
Eat yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month. Lantern Festival? As food, it has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called? Floating Yuanzi? After saying? Lantern Festival? , businessmen also euphemistically called? Yuanbao? . Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be vegetarian and has different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried and steamed, which means a happy reunion. Shaanxi dumplings are not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, hot and round.
Watching lights
During the reign of Emperor Yongping of the Han Dynasty (58-75 AD), when the Ming Emperor advocated Buddhism, it coincided with Cai Cheng's return from India to seek Buddhism, saying that on the fifteenth day of the first month in Mohatuo, India, monks gathered to pay tribute to Buddhist relics, which was an auspicious day to participate in Buddhism. In order to carry forward Buddhism, Emperor Hanming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in palaces and monasteries on the fifteenth night of the first month. Since then, the custom of putting lights on Lantern Festival has spread from being held only in the court to the people. That is, on the fifteenth day of the first month, no matter the gentry or the common people, lights are hung, and the city and countryside are brightly lit all night.
The custom of putting lights on Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Chang 'an, the capital city, was already the largest city in the world with a population of one million, and the society was rich. Under the emperor's personal initiative, the Lantern Festival became more and more luxurious. After the mid-Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. During the prosperous time of Kaiyuan in Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685-762 AD), the lantern market in Chang 'an was very large, with 50,000 lanterns and various lanterns. The emperor ordered people to make giant lantern buildings, with a height of 150 feet, which was golden and spectacular.
In the Song Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was better than that in the Tang Dynasty in terms of scale and fantastic lighting, and the activities were more folk and with stronger national characteristics. Since then, the Lantern Festival has developed continuously, and the time of Lantern Festival has become longer and longer. The Lantern Festival in Tang Dynasty was "one day before and after Shangyuan". In Song Dynasty, two days were added after 16th, and in Ming Dynasty, it was extended to ten days from the eighth day to the eighteenth day.
In the Qing Dynasty, when Manchu entered the Central Plains, the court no longer held lantern festivals, but the folk lantern festivals were still spectacular. The date was shortened to five days and continues to this day.
In Taiwan Province, lanterns have the meaning of brightness and grace, and lighting lamps means lighting up the future, and the homonym of Taiwanese lamps and ding means giving birth to boys. Therefore, in the past, women would deliberately wander under the lanterns in the hope of? Drill the lamp feet and lay eggs? That is, get under the lamp and swim, so that you can have a boy.
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Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival. In the feudal traditional society, Lantern Festival also provides an opportunity for unmarried men and women to get to know each other. In the traditional society, young girls are not allowed to go out freely, but they can go out to play together on holidays. Lantern Festival lanterns are just an opportunity to make friends, and unmarried men and women can also find objects for themselves by the way. During the Lantern Festival, it is also a time for young men and women to meet their lovers.
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