be decorated/decked with lanterns and coloured streamers

Since the custom of decorating lanterns on Lantern Festival was formed, it has been a great event to watch lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month in all dynasties. Liang Jian Wendi once wrote a poem "Liedeng Fu": "The south oil is full, and the west paint is burning. Su Zheng rests in peace, and wax comes out of Longchuan. The oblique light is reflected, and the reflection is clear. " It depicts the grand occasion when the court decorated lanterns at the Lantern Festival. During Emperor Yangdi's reign, a grand party was held on the 15th day of the first month every year to entertain guests and envoys from all over the world. According to "Sui Shu Music Records", the Lantern Festival is very grand, with lanterns and colorful decorations everywhere, singing and dancing day and night, with more than 30,000 performers and more than 18,000 musicians. The stage is eight miles long, and countless people are playing and watching the lanterns, staying up all night, enjoying themselves and being very lively. In the Tang dynasty, it developed into an unprecedented lantern market, and after the middle Tang dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. During the prosperous time of Kaiyuan in the reign of Emperor 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, reaching 20, with a height of 150 feet, which was golden and spectacular. In the Tang Dynasty, a curfew was imposed, and it was forbidden to travel when the drums were banned at night, and people who committed crimes at night were punished. Only on the Shangyuan Festival, the emperor granted a three-day ban, which was called "letting the night go". Along the Song Dynasty, lanterns were extended from three nights to five nights, fireworks were set off in addition to lanterns, and various juggling performances were performed, making the scene more lively. It is recorded in "Dream of Tokyo" that during the Lantern Festival, on the Imperial Street in Kaifeng, 10,000 lanterns are built into a lantern mountain, and the lanterns are fireworks, which are resplendent and splendid. Girls in Kyoto are singing and dancing, and people are watching. "Visitors gather under the two colonnades of the Imperial Street, with marvelous skills, singing and dancing, tangency of scales, and noisy music for more than ten miles." In the streets, tea houses and wine shops, lights and candles are burning together, gongs and drums are ringing, firecrackers are ringing, and hundreds of miles of lights are on.

Compatriots from all over the world celebrated the Lantern Festival in the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, in order to make the capital prosperous and lively, it was also stipulated that the lights would be on the eighth day of the first month, and the lights would be off at 17 o'clock, and every household would hang colorful lanterns for ten nights. The lanterns depicted various figures, dancing and dancing, birds flying and flowers flying, dragons leaping and dragons diving, lanterns and fireworks shining all night, drumming and playing, which was the longest Lantern Festival in China. In the Qing Dynasty, it was noisy. The date was shortened to five days and continues to this day.

solve lantern riddles; guess riddles on hanging lanterns

The riddle "solve riddles on the lanterns", also known as "playing riddles", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival. The riddle was first developed from riddles and originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is a literary game full of ridicule, discipline, humor and banter. The riddle hung on the lamp for people to guess and shoot, which began in the Southern Song Dynasty. "Old Things in Wulin: Lamps" records: "When writing poems with silk lanterns, people laugh at them, and draw characters, hide their heads and slang words, and tease pedestrians. "On the Lantern Festival, the emperor city stays up all night, and spring night enjoys the lantern festival. The people are mixed. Poems and riddles are written on lanterns, reflected in candles, and listed in the thoroughfare, so people can guess, so they are called" lantern riddles ". Nowadays, every Lantern Festival, riddles are played everywhere. I hope this year will be jubilant and safe. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of spreading.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, various acrobatic skills began to appear in the lantern market. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, besides riddles and hundreds of operas, there were also opera performances.

In addition to visiting the lantern market, people in the past dynasties also had customs such as welcoming Zigu to worship Ce Shen and crossing the bridge to touch nails and walk away from all diseases, and played games such as beating Taiping drum, yangko, stilts, dragon dance and lion dance.

The Lantern Festival in traditional society is a folk festival that is valued by both urban and rural areas. It is particularly lively in the city, and it embodies the unique carnival spirit of China people. The function of festival custom carried by traditional Lantern Festival has been dispelled by daily life, and people have gradually lost their spiritual interest. The complex festival custom has been simplified to the food custom of "eating Lantern Festival".

Dragon dance lantern

Playing dragon lantern, also known as dragon lantern or dragon dance. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor's period, in a large-scale song and dance of Qing Jiao, there was an image of a leading bird played by a man, and then a dance scene with six dragons interspersed with each other was arranged. 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. The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols.

walk on stilts

Walking on stilts 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 first introduced stilts in Liezi Shuofu: "In Song Dynasty, there were lanzi, who used their skills to dry Song and Yuan Dynasties. Song and Yuan Dynasties summoned them to see their skills.

lion dance

Lion Dance, a traditional folk program, is an excellent folk art in China. Every Lantern Festival or assembly celebration, people always come to entertain with lion dance. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and became popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a history of more than 1000 years.

"Lion Dance" began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. It is also called "Lion Dance" and "Taiping Music". Generally, it is completed by three people. Two people dress up as lions, one acts as the lion's head, one acts as the lion's body and hind feet, and the other acts as a lion leader. The dance method is divided into civil and military. The dance shows the gentleness of the lion, shaking its hair and rolling. The martial lion shows the ferocity of the lion.

Dry boating

Rowing a dry boat, folklore is to commemorate Dayu who has made great contributions to water control. Rowing a dry boat, also known as running a dry boat, is to imitate the boat on land, and most of the performers are girls. A dry boat is not a real boat. It is made of two thin sheets, sawed into a boat shape, tied with bamboo and wood, covered with colored cloth, tied around the girl's waist, just like sitting in a boat, rowing with paddles in hand, singing and dancing while running. This is a dry boat. Sometimes, another man dressed as a boatman and performing with a partner, mostly dressed as a clown, amused the audience with all kinds of funny actions. Dry boating is popular in many areas of China.

eat yuanxiao

As a food, Yuanxiao 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" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". In ancient times, the price of "Yuanxiao" was relatively expensive, and a poem said: "Guests look at the Imperial Street with a hook curtain, and the treasures in the city come at one time. There is no way to go in front of the curtain, and no money can be returned. "

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", is filled with white sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, 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. [2]

Sacrifice door and household

In ancient times, there were "seven sacrifices", which were two of them. The method of sacrifice is to insert poplar branches above the door, insert a pair of chopsticks in a bowl filled with bean porridge, or put wine and meat directly in front of the door.

Rat chase

This activity is mainly for sericulture families. Because mice often eat silkworms in large areas at night, it is said that mice can stop eating silkworms by feeding them rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month. As a result, these people cooked a large pot of sticky porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, and some of them covered it with a layer of meat. They put the porridge in a bowl and put it in the ceiling, corner and mouth where mice were infested, cursing the mice that they would not die a natural death if they ate silkworm babies again.

According to The Chronicle of Jingchu's Age, on the fifteenth day of the first month, a fairy descended to a family named Chen and said to them, If you can sacrifice to me, your silkworm will have a bumper harvest this year. Later, customs were formed.

Send a child lamp

Referred to as "sending lanterns" for short, it is also called "sending lanterns", that is, before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family sends lanterns to her newly married daughter's home, or ordinary relatives and friends give them to the newly married infertile home in order to add good luck, because "lamp" is homophonic with "Ding". This custom is found in many places. In Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province, lanterns are given during the eighth to fifteenth day of the first month. In the first year, a pair of palace lanterns and a pair of glass lamps with colorful paintings are given. I hope that my daughter will be lucky and have children early after marriage. If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the big palace lantern, one or two pairs of small lanterns should be sent to wish her a safe pregnancy.

Yingzigu

Zigu is also called Qigu, and in the north, it is called toilet aunt and pit aunt. The ancient folk custom is to offer sacrifices to Ce Shen Zigu on the 15th day of the first month, and to divine silkworm and mulberry, which accounts for many things. Legend has it that Zigu was originally a concubine and was envied by the eldest woman. She was killed in the toilet on the fifteenth day of the first month and became Ce Shen. On the Lantern Festival to welcome Zigu, people use straw and cloth heads to tie up a life-size portrait of Zigu, and greet it in the pigsty in the toilet at night. This custom is popular all over the north and south, and it was recorded as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Walking sickness

"Walking through all diseases", also known as swimming through all diseases, dispersing all diseases, baking all diseases, walking across the bridge, etc., is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for health. On the night of Lantern Festival, women meet and travel together, and when they see a bridge, they must cross it, thinking that this can cure diseases and prolong life.

Walking away from all diseases is a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some of which are carried out on the 15th, but most of them are carried out on the 16th. On this day, women dressed in festive costumes went out of their homes in droves, crossed the bridge to cross the danger, went to the city, and begged for children until midnight.

ethnic minorities

Stealing vegetables festival

The Miao People's Vegetable Stealing Festival, which is popular in Ping Huang, Guizhou Province, is also held on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. On this day of the festival, girls will steal other people's food in droves. It is forbidden to steal from their own family or from friends of the same sex, because stealing food is related to their marriage. The stolen vegetables are limited to cabbage, and the quantity is enough for everyone to eat. Stealing vegetables is not afraid of being discovered, and people who are stolen don't blame it. Everyone gathered the stolen dishes together and made a cabbage feast. It is said that whoever eats the most can get the right person early, and at the same time, the silkworms they raise are the strongest and they spit out the best silk.

Bawu Festival

Bawu Festival, a traditional festival of the Yi people, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. "Bawu" means "coming back from hunting". It is found in the black living residential area of the Yi branch in Heqing, Yunnan. At that time, this festival was originally a custom activity to celebrate the return from hunting, and there was no fixed festival.

Festive food customs

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.

The representative food of the Lantern Festival was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "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. At the same time, we should eat some seasonal food, and pour rice porridge or bean porridge with meat and poop soup in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. However, this food is mainly used for sacrifices, and it is not a holiday food. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Zheng Wangzhi's "The Record of the Chef" recorded: "Dieting in the middle of the year, going to the oil hammer." The method of making an oil hammer is similar to that of frying Yuanxiao in future generations, according to a record of "Shang Shi Ling" quoted from Taiping Guangji and Lushi ZaShuo. Some people call it "the pearl of oil painting". The Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty was eaten by silkworms. Wang Renyu (1880-1956) recorded in the Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao: "The custom of artificial silkworm was still left over in the Song Dynasty every year, but different seasonal foods were more abundant than those in the Tang Dynasty." Lu Yuanming's Miscellaneous Notes on the Year of the Year mentioned: "Peking people use mung bean powder as a branch to fight soup, cook glutinous rice as a pill, and sugar as a mash, which is called Yuanzi Salt Soybeans. Cooking soup with mixed meat is called salt and black bean soup, and it is like making silkworms every day, all of which are eaten on the Yuan Festival. " By the Southern Song Dynasty, the so-called "lactose dumpling" appeared, which should be the predecessor of glutinous rice balls.

At least in the Ming Dynasty, people called this glutinous rice dumpling Yuanxiao. Liu Ruoyu (born in 1541) recorded the practice of Yuanxiao in "Deliberation in Records": "Its preparation method is to use glutinous rice flour, with walnut kernel, sugar and rose as stuffing, and roll it with water, which is as big as walnut, that is, the glutinous rice balls called in the south of the Yangtze River".

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the "Eight Treasures Lantern Festival" specially made by the Imperial Kitchen was famous for its delicacy in the ruling and opposition parties. Ma Siyuan was the master of making Yuanxiao in Beijing at that time. His Difen Yuanxiao is famous far and near. Fu Zeng (born in 1688)' s "Poems on Bamboo Branches in Shangyuan" says: "Sweet-scented osmanthus is filled with walnuts, and the rice is like a pearl well. See that Ma's family is good at dropping powder, and try to sell Yuanxiao in the wind. " What is sung in the poem is the famous Majia Lantern Festival.

In the past thousand years, the production of Yuanxiao has become more and more exquisite. As far as dough is concerned, there are glutinous rice noodles, sticky sorghum noodles, yellow wheat noodles and bract noodles. The contents of the stuffing are sweet, salty, vegetarian and everything. There are so-called sweet-scented osmanthus sugar, hawthorn sugar, assorted, bean paste, sesame seeds, peanuts and so on. Salty with lard meat stuffing, it can be fried and fried for Yuanxiao. There are five-spice Lantern Festival composed of mustard, garlic, leek and ginger, which means hard work, long-term progress.

The production methods are also different from north to south. In the north, the Lantern Festival is mostly hand-rolled by the reed, while in the south, the dumplings are mostly kneaded with the palm of your hand. Yuanxiao can be as big as a walnut or as small as a soybean. The cooking methods include taking soup, frying, frying and steaming. With or without stuffing, it is equally delicious. At present, Yuanxiao has become a snack that is prepared at all times, and you can come to a bowl to relieve your hunger at any time.

All over China

The custom of Lantern Festival is different all over the country.

Beijing

The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. From the 13th day of the first lunar month to the 17th day of the first lunar month, people in Beijing have to entertain for five days and nights. In the Lantern Festival in old Beijing, the most important activity is to enjoy the lanterns. In the Ming Dynasty, Beijing's lantern market was located in dengshikou, Dongcheng, and there were midnight snacks on both sides of the street, ranging from jewelry and jade articles to daily necessities. All the shops hung lanterns made of silk yarn, burnt beads, bright horns, wheat straw and medulla tetrapanacis for people to watch. By the Qing Dynasty, lantern markets were all over Beijing.

Hebei Province

On the Lantern Festival in Yongping Prefecture, sick women gather under the kiln, which is called "pottery moxibustion". Children cross the bridge, which is called "Du Baie". Some people cut the paper into nine paper ropes, and tied them by hand to make up for the blame, which is called "knot the sheep intestines". Twelve cups were used to store oil and put it into the pot for steaming, so as to predict the sunny and rainy days of this month according to the amount of accumulated water in the cups. Jinghai county shangyuan festival takes big steamed bread as a diet. In Qingyun County, the Lantern Festival, the man asked the five ancestors to teach boxing sticks, and the woman asked Zigu Bu to take the blame.

Anhui province

Near the Lantern Festival these days, various folk art performances have been held one after another in the street communities and rural fields of Shangyao Town, Datong District, Huainan City. Colorful performances such as flower drum lantern, dragon lantern, lion rolling hydrangea, stilts, pavilion-lifting, Hua Gun, lantern, umbrella lantern, dry boat, single-pole bridge, etc. not only pushed the atmosphere of the New Year to a climax, but also let the young and old in Shiliba Township appreciate the unique Huaihe customs and culture. On both sides of the Huaihe River, there is an old saying that the 15th National Congress of the first month is like a year. On the third day of the New Year, people are too busy saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, visiting relatives and friends, to eat or play, and the Lantern Festival is the most interesting moment.

Fuyang people are industrious and intelligent, and in the long-term practice of production and life, they continue to develop and create, forming a unique mass culture. There are lively and rich quyi, folk dances and dramas with unique regional characteristics. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, these colorful mass cultures gather into a unique Fuyang Lantern Festival. Fuyang Lantern Festival began in Sui and Tang Dynasties and prevailed in Ming Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu wrote when he was a satrap in Yingzhou, "On the moonlit night of last year, the flower market was lit like a day. The moon rose above the willow tree, At dusk he had a tryst with me. On the first night of this year, the moon and the lights are still there, and last year's people were not seen, and Man Chun's shirt sleeves were in tears. This poem shows that the Lantern Festival in Fuyang in the Song Dynasty has been very popular. Every year, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a traditional lantern festival. On this day, people will spontaneously hang lanterns of different shapes, such as flowers, birds, insects, fish and beasts lanterns, zodiac lanterns and so on, in front of their homes. During the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, there are also some big plays to be sung. One or more plays are duets, which are also called "stage plays". At the same time, families also set off various fireworks to add fun.

Shanxi province

Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as Shangyuan Festival. Lantern Festival is the oldest night festival in China. According to legend, the Western Han Dynasty pacified "Zhulu", and the Chinese Emperor started the foundation on January 15th, which was designated as the Lantern Festival. The whole country is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations to celebrate the festival. The royal family in the deep palace, ladies and gentlemen can also go to the streets to watch the lights.

On the Lantern Festival, every household makes its own Lantern Festival (now it is monopolized by professional households). Yuanxiao, called "Floating Yuanzi" in ancient times, is a kind of folk snack that tastes elegant and vulgar, sweet but not greasy, and is popular all over the country. "The stars are in the dark clouds, and the beads are floating in the turbid water". "Light round is better than chicken head meat, and it is better to use crab eye soup when you are bored." It is no wonder that the ancient poets describe the Lantern Festival so much that it has been popular for thousands of years.

Hanging lanterns is an essential form for Shanxi people to celebrate the Lantern Festival. When the Lantern Festival comes, every household hangs all kinds of lanterns, which are turned on every night from 14th to 16th. From a distance, the buildings are decorated with colorful lanterns, which make the whole city splendid. All units are also scrambling to make all kinds of lanterns and hang them in the street for people to enjoy. There are countless lantern styles, including animals, zodiac, riddles and palace lanterns. There are drum lights, cake-moistening lights, fish, shrimp, chicken, duck and goose lights, orange, banana and pineapple lights, palace lights, wishful lights, silk lights, glass lights and lantern lanterns ... all kinds of colorful.

Setting off fireworks is the most gratifying activity of Shanxi People's Lantern Festival. Fireworks will be set off in the square on Lantern Festival night. At that time, the whole family will go to the street to see the beautiful fireworks. The fireworks will become more and more beautiful and bigger, with higher and higher technology content and more beautiful and gorgeous colors.

Literature and art stepping on the street can be called a folk culture makeup parade. "Dress up stories, adorn jewelry, bells and drums are loud, and a country is crazy". (Ming Qiao Yuan's Book of Min). From 14th to 16th, for three days in a row, all counties and districts organized various cultural performances to come to the city, including folk art, modern art display, traditional literature and art, ancient music, music concerts, costume dramas, and countless patterns. Hold a large-scale light show. All units want a large-scale light show with sound, light and color on the street. Some represent auspiciousness, some represent happiness, some represent ancient legends, and some are instructive.

Shandong Province

People in Zichuan District, Zibo put more river lanterns on the water during the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival in Ningyang County, Tai 'an City sends lanterns to ancestral graves. There is a custom of lighting lanterns in Boxing County, Binzhou City. Boys carry lanterns, walk around the jujube tree six times, and say "Du Lao Du Lao, blossom and bear jujube" six times, which can make the jujube tree harvest. Men, women and children in Ju (j incarnation) County of Rizhao City go for an outing in the wild on the 16th day of the first month, which is called "walking the old face". It is said that walking once a year can keep them young forever.

Henan Province

The Lantern Festival in Xiangcheng County eats wonton soup, which is called "reunion tea". The bride's family takes her married daughter home for the holidays. When the Lantern Festival is celebrated in the county, the sick and old all use fire to moxibustion stone turtles. If there is a river bridge locally, cross the bridge at the same rate. If there is no bridge, a "flyover" with wooden boards several feet high is called "walking all diseases"

Shaanxi province

Fengxiang county fetes his daughter and son-in-law at the Lantern Festival, which is called "Eating Fifteen". And send lights and oil, which is called "adding oil".

Jiangsu Province

In Wujin district, reeds were tied to form a torch of promise on the last day of the Yuan Dynasty, and it was inserted in the field, called "Zhao Tian Cai", which was used to predict the morning and evening. The white fire is water, and the red fire is drought. On the Yuan Festival in Yixing, children wore ghost masks and jumped with their feet bent and their shoulders vibrated, which was called "jumping ghosts".

Zhejiang Province

It is said in Hangzhou that the 15th day of the first month was the day of heavenly god blesses the people in Shangyuan, and he used vegetarian food to recite scriptures and crawled to Wu Shan to worship. Haining Lantern Festival is most famous for its exquisite chrysanthemum lanterns. Shangyu county is less than the Lantern Festival in the evening to compete martial arts on the platform. In Jiande County, if someone has a new wife, a wine offering bed will be set up on the Lantern Festival.

Jiangxi province

Xinjian county people sweep graves and insert bamboo as lights on Lantern Festival. Every township in Wan 'an County worships the Shenzhou in the Lantern Festival.

Hubei province

The old farmer in Yunmeng County (now Jianghan) took a torch to Tian Pu at midnight snack, which was called "according to the Jedi silkworm". Children greet God with drums and fields, and predict the future. Wuchang's "dragon-making" will last for three days. All the men, women and children in the village follow the dragon lantern to the neighboring village for dinner, which is called "dragon for wine".

Hunan province

In Shangyuan, Changde, various families used pepper as soup and added leeks and fruits to entertain guests, which was called "time soup". After swimming in the Dragon Lantern in Xintian County, the Dragon Lantern was set on fire, which is called "sending disaster".

Sichuan Province

Sichuan Lantern Festival has the custom of "four steals": "one steals dumplings, two steals green, three steals eaves lamps and four steals red." Except for stealing youth to strengthen the body, the rest are all customs of seeking children. Kaixian county has the custom of "scolding". During the Lantern Festival, people move benches to the outdoors, scolding all their usual grievances, and those who are scolded are not allowed to scold back.

Fujian Province

Quanzhou lanterns are unique, including incense lanterns, paper folding lotus lanterns, silk palace lanterns, eight-knot lanterns and so on. Temple in Shaowu County welcome incense around the border at midnight snack, which is called "clean street". In southern Fujian, there is a custom that children in two villages throw stones at each other for fun during the Lantern Festival. It is said that if there is no stone throwing, there will be a plague in that village.

Guangdong Province

Some people in Xin 'an county gave birth to boys last year, and all celebrated lanterns at midnight snack. When Nanxiong lights up, parents take the dragon beard thread from the dragon lantern to tie the children. It is said that children can be protected from disease. He also took the candles left in the dragon lantern and shone under the bed. It was said that he could give birth to your son. When people in Wenchang County steal the youth at midnight snack, those who steal it take being scolded as a good omen, while those who fail to steal it take not being scolded as a good omen.

Yunnan Province

Yunlong county greeted the three gods before the Lantern Festival and set up a shed along the street to offer sacrifices. Burning incense on the bridge the day after the Lantern Festival in Maitreya, throwing stones into the water, and then taking water to wash your eyes, it is said that you can get rid of the disease. Eating Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival is the same custom all over the country. This kind of food first appeared in the Song Dynasty. The poet Jiang Baishi wrote in a poem "Ode to the Lantern Festival": "Guests look at the Imperial Street with a hook curtain, and the treasures in the city come for a while. "This" city treasure "refers to the Lantern Festival. Zhou Bida, a Song Dynasty poet, once wrote a poem "The Lantern Festival Boils Floating Yuanzi": What's the evening? Reunion is the same. Tang Guan patrols the old flavor, and the kitchen maid makes new contributions. Stars in dark clouds, beads floating in turbid water. At the age of 18, I made up miscellaneous poems, with this saying about family style.

Taiwan Province Province

In Taiwan Province, there is also a traditional custom that unmarried women who steal onions or vegetables at midnight snack will marry a good husband, commonly known as "stealing onions, marrying a good wife" and "stealing vegetables, marrying a good husband". Girls who hope to have a happy marriage will steal onions or vegetables in the garden on the night of midnight snack, hoping for a happy family in the future. There are also hundreds of dances and performances in the Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty, with thousands of ladies-in-waiting.