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What are the customs of Lantern Festival?
1, Eating Yuanxiao: Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a food, 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, then Yuanxiao, and businessmen also called it Yuanbao. Yuanxiao, or sweet dumplings, is made of white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, 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.

2. Lantern Festival: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. This festival is also called Lantern Festival because there are customs such as hanging lanterns, lighting lanterns and watching lanterns. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which started in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the wind of lights prevailed in past dynasties and was passed down to later generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual lantern fireworks. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called the Lantern Festival. In the county-level city walls and even townships and towns in Shanxi, these residents are concentrated in the bustling and lively areas. Before the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets are full of lanterns, flowers are everywhere, and lights are swaying, reaching a climax on the fifteenth night of the first month. Watching lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month has become a spontaneous activity of Shanxi folk people. On the fifteenth night of the first month, red lights are hung high in the streets and lanes, including palace lanterns, animal headlights, lantern lanterns, flower lanterns, bird lanterns and so on, attracting the people watching lanterns. In Taiyuan area, the lights in Taigu County are very famous. Taigu lamps are famous for their variety, exquisite production and attractive appearance.

3. Lantern riddles: solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is a unique form of traditional folk entertainment with rich national style in China, and it has been a characteristic activity of Lantern Festival since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so many people responded, and then guessing riddles gradually became an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere, showing the intelligence and wisdom of ancient working people and their yearning for a better life.

4, playing dragon lantern: also known as dragon lantern or dragon dance. The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu" in the Han Dynasty. The author vividly describes the dragon dance in the description of hundreds of plays. According to the Records of Sui Shu Music, Huanglongbian, which was similar to the dragon dance performance in one hundred plays during Emperor Yangdi's reign, was also very wonderful, and dragon dance was popular in many places in China. China worships dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols.

5. Walking on stilts: it is a popular folk mass performance. Stilts, originally one of the hundreds of ancient dramas in China, appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. China was the first to introduce stilts, who had lanzi in Song Dynasty in Liezi Shuofu. Song and Yuan Dynasties summoned them to see their skills.