Lantern Festival originated from "Torch Festival". In the Han Dynasty, people held torches in rural fields to drive away insects and beasts, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a good harvest. To this day, people in some areas in southwest China still make torches out of reeds or branches on the fifteenth day of the first month, and hold them high in groups and dance in fields or grain drying fields. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been in full swing.

Tens of thousands of people took part in singing and dancing, from faint to dull. With the changes of society and times, the customs of Lantern Festival have changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.

Moral: The moral of Lantern Festival is good luck and family reunion, as well as good wishes for future life and yearning for hometown.

At first, Yuanxiao was often called "Tangyuan", because it floated on the water after boiling, which was beautiful and reminiscent of a bright moon hanging in the clouds. There is a bright moon in the sky, dumplings in a bowl, and every household is round and round, symbolizing reunion and good luck. Therefore, eating Yuanxiao expresses people's love for family reunion.

Lantern Festival customs

1, look at the lanterns

The so-called watching lanterns is watching lanterns, which are all made up of lanterns. There used to be a legend that the gods in the sky wanted to burn the lower world. Because the kind fairy told the people in the lower world, people thought of a way to use lanterns to hang lanterns in every house, so that the gods in the sky thought that the world had been burned. So we left a custom of watching lanterns and hanging lanterns.

2. Eat Yuanxiao

Yuanxiao, also known as Tangyuan, is made of glutinous rice flour by hand, which can be filled with stuffing, usually sugar, black sesame paste and so on. Nowadays, there are various fillings. Eating glutinous rice balls is one of the important customs of the Lantern Festival, because glutinous rice balls represent reunion and make the family round and round.

3, lion dance

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Every Lantern Festival or assembly celebration, people come to add to the fun with lion dance, which represents joy and prosperity.

4. Walking on stilts

Walking on stilts is a popular folk mass performance. Every Lantern Festival, people will organize a group of people to perform on stilts to increase the atmosphere of the festival.

5. solve riddles on the lanterns

Nowadays, every Lantern Festival, riddles are played everywhere, hoping to be jubilant and safe. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of spreading.