Eat zongzi; eat rice dumplings; eat glutinous rice balls
Eating "glutinous rice balls" is an important custom of the Lantern Festival. Tangyuan, also known as "Tangtuan" and "Yuanxiao", was eaten in the Song Dynasty. At that time, glutinous rice balls were called "floating Zi Yuan", also known as "glutinous rice balls", "lactose Zi Yuan", "soup bowls" and "glutinous rice balls", and merchants were called "Yuanbao". At the beginning of Song, Yuan and Yuan Dynasties, sweet dumplings have become a response to the Lantern Festival.
Today it's called Yuanxiao in the north and Tangyuan in the south. According to the theory of stuffing, Yuanxiao can be divided into two types: stuffing and stuffing, salty, sweet, meat and vegetarian. According to the production methods, there are many kinds, such as hand rubbing, Yuanxiao mechanism, bamboo plaque roll and so on. According to different milling, there are glutinous rice flour and sorghum rice flour.
Solve riddles; solve lantern riddles; guess riddles on hanging lanterns
Playing with lanterns is an important item in the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddle is a word game originated from Lantern Festival, also called Lantern Tiger. Putting riddles on lanterns for people to guess and shoot, the answers are mainly word meanings, and there are 24 kinds of riddles such as roller blinds, swings and phoenix-seeking, which form a unique folk culture.
The biggest Lantern Festival in China is/kloc-0 "Nine Cities Lantern Festival" held in Nanjing in 979. There are tens of thousands of riddles, and more than 20 thousand people participated in three days.
Enjoy holiday lanterns
During the Yong Ping period of Han Dynasty (AD 58-75), when Ming Chengzu advocated Buddhism, it happened that Cai Cheng returned from India to seek Buddhism, saying that it was the fifteenth day of the first month of Mohato, India, and the monks gathered to pay tribute to the relics, which was an auspicious day to participate in Buddhism. In order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Hanming ordered lanterns to be burned in palaces and monasteries on the fifteenth night of the first month.
Since then, the custom of putting lights on the Lantern Festival has spread from being held only in the court to the people. That is, on the fifteenth day of the first month, both the gentry and the people hang up lights, and the urban and rural areas are brightly lit all night.
The custom of setting off lanterns during the Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty. Chang 'an, the capital at that time, was already the largest city with a population of one million in the world, and its society was rich. Under the personal initiative of the emperor, the Lantern Festival became more and more luxurious. After the middle Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival.
In the prosperous period of the Tang Xuanzong Kaiyuan (685-762 AD), the lantern market in Chang 'an was very large, with 50,000 lanterns and all kinds of lanterns. The emperor ordered 20 giant lantern buildings with a height of 150 feet, resplendent and magnificent.