What date is the Lantern Festival in 2020 on Saturday, February 8, 2020 (the 15th day of the first month in the Year of the Rat, and 1 day before the Lantern Festival in 2020).
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as "Shangyuan Festival". As one of the traditional festivals in China, it is also one of the traditional festivals of Chinese characters in the region and overseas Chinese.
Is the Lantern Festival Expressway free in 2020 According to the regulations, the Lantern Festival 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 impact of the COVID-19 epidemic this year, many provinces and cities extended the free time to February 9th, and cancelled the restrictions.
Lantern Festival On the fifteenth day of the first month, Lantern Festival parties will be held in many places. 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, while lanterns symbolize people's pursuit of beautiful things. In some places, there is a tradition that the bride's family sends lanterns to her newly married daughter in order to add good luck, because "light" and "ding" are homophonic.
Of course, eating Yuanxiao Lantern Festival is indispensable. The traditional Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice flour. Because China is multi-ethnic, the specific methods of making Yuanxiao are also 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 is particularly popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong. Guangzhou lion dance is very famous. It reposes an auspicious and wishful long-cherished wish of the working people.
Solve riddles on the lanterns solve riddles on the lanterns is a traditional form of folk entertainment in China. At present, every 15th day of the first month, the densely populated square will be covered with colorful lights and riddles, and it will be very lively.
Squirrel-by-mouse 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, sericulture families were afraid that mice would eat silkworms at night, so they fed mice with rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, and mice would not harm mulberry farmers.