When is the Lantern Festival in 2020? Saturday, February 8, 2020 (the fifteenth day of the first month of the Year of the Rat, before the Lantern Festival in 2020 1 day).
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also called "Shangyuan Festival". As one of the traditional festivals in China, it is also one of the traditional festivals of Chinese characters and overseas Chinese in this region.
Is expressway free in 2020? According to regulations, expressway is not free in 2020, because the Lantern Festival is not a legal holiday in China. At present, China's high-speed free is limited to legal holidays. However, due to the epidemic situation in COVID-19 this year, many provinces and cities extended the free time to February 9th and lifted the restrictions.
Lantern Festival is on the fifteenth day of the first month, and many places will hold Lantern Festival parties. People will enjoy lanterns, dragon lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns together and enjoy the festival.
The role of lanterns is to drive away darkness, and lanterns symbolize people's pursuit of beautiful things. In some places, there is a tradition that the bride's family gives lanterns to her newly-married daughter to increase good luck, because "light" and "ding" are homophonic.
Of course, eating Yuanxiao is indispensable for the Lantern Festival. Traditional Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice flour. Because China is multi-ethnic, the specific practices of Lantern Festival are different, which is of course related to regional differences. The methods of making glutinous rice balls in the south and the north are very different.
The traditional custom of lion dance originated from the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China, and it was especially popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong. Guangzhou lion dance is very famous. It has entrusted the working people with an auspicious and wishful wish.
Solve riddles on the lanterns solve riddles on the lanterns is a traditional folk entertainment form in China. At present, every fifteenth day of the first month, the densely populated square will be full of colorful lights and riddles, which is very lively.
Squirrels chasing mice is also a folk activity on the fifteenth day of the first month, which originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China. In ancient times, people who raised silkworms were afraid that mice would eat silkworms at night, so they fed them rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, so that the mice would not hurt mulberry farmers.