The annual Lantern Festival is coming soon. For this, our school requires us to publish a blackboard newspaper in each class, and I have specially prepared the text for this. The following is the "content and text of the Lantern Festival blackboard newspaper" compiled by me for everyone, for reference only, and you are welcome to read it. Lantern Festival blackboard content text 1

Eat Yuanxiao

Eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, and "Yuanxiao" 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" 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.

Watching the lanterns

During the reign of Emperor Yongping of the Han Dynasty (58-75 AD), because the Ming Emperor advocated Buddhism, it coincided with Cai Cheng's return from India to seek Buddhism. He said that on the 15th day of the first month in Mohe Tuo, India, monks gathered to pay tribute to the Buddhist relics, which was an auspicious day to participate in Buddhism. In order to carry forward Buddhism, Emperor Hanming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in palaces and monasteries on the fifteenth night of the first month. Since then, the custom of putting lights on Lantern Festival has spread from being held only in the court to the people. That is, on the fifteenth day of the first month, no matter the gentry or the common people, lights are hung, and the city and countryside are brightly lit all night.

The custom of setting off lanterns on Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Chang 'an, the capital city, was already the largest city in the world with a population of one million, and its society was rich. Under the emperor's personal initiative, the Lantern Festival became more and more luxurious. After the mid-Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. During the prosperous time of Kaiyuan in Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685-762 AD), the lantern market in Chang 'an was very large, with 5, lanterns and various lanterns. The emperor ordered people to make 2 giant lantern buildings, which were 15 feet high and glittering and spectacular.

In the Song Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was better than that in the Tang Dynasty in terms of scale and fantastic lighting, and the activities were more folk and with stronger national characteristics. Since then, the Lantern Festival has developed continuously, and the time of Lantern Festival has become longer and longer. The Lantern Festival in Tang Dynasty was "one day before and after Shangyuan". In Song Dynasty, two days were added after 16th, and in Ming Dynasty, it was extended to ten days from the eighth day to the eighteenth day.

in the Qing dynasty, when Manchu came to the central plains, the court no longer held lantern festivals, but the folk lantern festivals were still spectacular. The date was shortened to five days and continues to this day.

In Taiwan Province, lanterns have the meaning of brightness and grace, and lighting lanterns means lighting up the future, and the homonym of Taiwanese lanterns and grace means giving birth to boys. Therefore, in the past, women would deliberately wander under lanterns in the hope of "drilling under lanterns to give birth to eggs" (that is, swimming under lanterns to give birth to boys). Lantern Festival Blackboard Content Text 2

Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyian Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year, and is the last important festival in China's Spring Festival customs. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year is called the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival custom

Since ancient times, Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by warm and festive lantern watching custom. Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and setting off flames, enjoying solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Lantern Festival and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances such as playing with dragon lanterns, playing with lions, walking on stilts, rowing on dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival.

You can briefly describe it as above, or you can choose one of the customs to explain it in detail by combining pictures and words.

*** Eating Yuanxiao

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month 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". 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.

Yuanxiao, 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" 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. "

Yuanxiao is rolled in the north and Tangyuan is wrapped in the south, which are two foods with different practices and tastes. Lantern Festival blackboard content text 3

Lantern Festival food-Lantern Festival

big festival. Another theory is that the custom of burning lanterns in Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "three-yuan theory"; The 15th day of the first month is Shangyuan Festival, the 15th day of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the 15th day of October is Xiayuan Festival. The officials in charge of the upper, middle and lower three elements are heaven, earth and man respectively, and the heaven official is happy, so the lantern festival should be lit.

The festivals and customs activities of the Lantern Festival are extended and expanded with the development of history. As far as the length of the festival is concerned, it was only one day in the Han Dynasty, three days in the Tang Dynasty, and five days in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the lights were lit from the eighth day of the eighth month until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month, for ten days. Connecting with the Spring Festival, the day is the city, which is very lively, and the lights are lit at night, which is spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. By the Qing Dynasty, there were more "hundred plays" such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, roller boating, walking on stilts and dancing yangko, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.

Shangyuan means the first full moon night in the new year. The origin of Shangyuan Festival is recorded in Miscellanies at the Age of Years, which is a Taoist stereotype. Taoism once called the fifteenth day of the first month of the year Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July as Zhongyuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October as Xiayuan Festival, which were collectively called "Sanyuan". The gods worshipped by Wudou Midao, an important faction of Taoism at the end of Han Dynasty, were Tianguan, Diguan and Shuiguan. They said that heavenly god blesses the people, the Diguan pardoned sins and Shuiguan relieved Eritrea, and they matched three officials with three yuan, saying that Shangyuan Tianguan was born on the 15th of the first month, Zhongyuan Diguan was born on the 15th of July and Xiayuan Shuiguan was born on the 15th of October. In this way, the fifteenth day of the first month is called Shangyuan Festival. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Zimu said in Dream Liang Lu: "On the fifteenth day of the first month, it is the day of heavenly god blesses the people in Shangyuan." It is said that heavenly god blesses the people, the local officials forgive sins, but the real motivation of Lantern Festival custom is that it is at a new time point, and people make full use of this special time stage to express their wishes for life.

Festival history

The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. According to historical data and folklore, the 15th day of the first month has been paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. The activity of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty offering sacrifices to "Taiyi" (Taiyi: the god who rules everything in the world) on the night of the first month was regarded by later generations as the precursor of offering sacrifices to the gods on the 15th day of the first month. However, the fifteenth day of the first month was really a folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties. The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty is of great significance to the formation of the custom of Lantern Festival.

During the reign of Emperor Yongping of the Han Dynasty (58-175 AD), when the Ming Emperor advocated Buddhism, it coincided with Cai Cheng's return from India to seek Buddhism, saying that every 15th day of the first month in Mohatuo, India, monks gathered to pay tribute to the Buddhist relics, which was an auspicious day to participate in Buddhism. In order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Han Ming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in the palace and temple on the fifteenth night of the first month. Therefore, the custom of burning lanterns on the fifteenth night of the first month has gradually spread in China with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and the addition of Taoist culture.

It is also said that the Lantern Festival originated from the Torch Festival. In the Han Dynasty, people held torches in rural fields to drive away insects and beasts, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a good harvest. To this day, people in some areas in southwest China still make torches out of reeds or branches on the fifteenth day of the first month, and hold them high in groups and dance in fields or grain drying fields. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been in full swing. Tens of thousands of people took part in singing and dancing, from faint to dull. With the changes of society and times, the customs of Lantern Festival have changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.

Another saying is that the custom of burning lanterns in Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "three-yuan theory"; The 15th day of the first month is Shangyuan Festival, the 15th day of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the 15th day of October is Xiayuan Festival. The officials in charge of the upper, middle and lower three elements are heaven, earth and man respectively, and the heaven official is happy, so the lantern festival should be lit. The festivals and customs activities of the Lantern Festival are extended and expanded with the development of history. As far as the length of the festival is concerned, it was only one day in the Han Dynasty, three days in the Tang Dynasty, and five days in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the lights were lit from the eighth day of the eighth month until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month, for ten days. Connecting with the Spring Festival, the day is the city, which is very lively, and the lights are lit at night, which is spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. By the Qing Dynasty, there were more "hundred plays" such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, roller boating, walking on stilts and dancing yangko, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.

Lantern Festival is the main traditional festival in China, also called Yuanxi and Yuanye, and Shangyuan Festival, because it is the first full moon night in the New Year. Because this festival has the custom of watching lanterns in past dynasties, it is also called the Lantern Festival. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month has been paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. The activities of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to sacrifice "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the night of the first month are regarded by later generations as the first sound of offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month. However, the fifteenth day of the first month was really a folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties. The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty is of great significance to the formation of the Lantern Festival custom. Legend has it that there was a drought in the Tang Dynasty, and the Dragon King made a mistake in sex and drowned many people in Chang 'an. The Jade Emperor ordered Wei Zhi to supervise and behead the Dragon King, but the Dragon King haunted the palace every night, which frightened Li Shimin, the king of the Tang Dynasty. So he asked his ministers for advice, and they thought that he should cross over the Dragon King, so the people had the habit of playing dragon lanterns in the Lantern Festival. Dragon lanterns are generally made of bamboo, colored paper, cloth, etc., and the number of knots is odd, reaching tens of feet. Those who can burn candles in a knot are called "Dragon Lantern", while those who can't, are called "Bulong". When dancing the dragon, the leading dancer holds the faucet, and dozens of people lift the wooden sticks tightly connected to the dragon body. Then, the whole dragon runs along the prescribed route and queue in the music. The dragon seems to be alive, and the people use this custom to seek good weather and good harvests.

solve riddles on the lanterns

, also known as "playing riddles", is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival that has been circulating since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every household hangs colored lights and sets off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and pasted them on colorful colored lights 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.

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.