On Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls, mainly to pray for family reunion. The glutinous rice used for making glutinous rice balls is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the functions of tonifying deficiency, regulating blood, invigorating spleen and appetizing, benefiting qi and stopping diarrhea, and has the functions of warming the middle warmer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. In addition, the conventional stuffing of all kinds of glutinous rice balls is mainly fruit and dried fruit, including sesame, walnut and peanut, plus vegetable oil. What is the nutritional value? To the next level? . So, how do Cantonese people spend the Lantern Festival?

Do Cantonese people have to spend the Lantern Festival like this to be authentic in Guangzhou?

Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year, and it is also the night of the reunion of the Yuan Dynasty. People celebrate it in spring returns, which is also a continuation of celebrating the Spring Festival. Lantern festivities are also the main form of festivals in Guangzhou.

So there are activities with strong folk flavor, such as Guangfu Temple Fair and Yuexiu Park Lantern Festival.

This year's Guangfu Temple Fair series started on the 15th day of the first month, and admission is free. Set up special folk cultural performances, folk parades, production and display of non-legacy handicrafts, exhibition of traditional small commodities, exhibition of traditional food and other activities.

The charging period for the Lantern Festival in Yuexiu Park is from January 3th to February 28th, and the ticket price for the enclosed area of the Lantern Festival is: all-inclusive 3 yuan/person? Zhang, half a ticket 15 yuan/person? Zhang.

Since February 29th, 216, the enclosed area of Yuexiu Park Lantern Festival is free of tickets.

begging for a child

If you want to have a big fat monkey doll, you might as well take advantage of the Lantern Festival to ask for a child to pray.

In the old days, in Guangzhou and other places, there was the custom of begging for children at midnight snack.

what are the ways to find a child? Zhan Hua qi zi? , that is, to the Jinhua Lady Temple to burn incense and beg for children.

second? Beggars in the East? . According to Li Tiaoyuan's "Notes on South Vietnam" in Qing Dynasty, on the night of Lantern Festival, many ladies in Guangzhou traveled eastward to beg for children in the temple. Three days later, the temple will send the requested lamp to the home, which is called it? Send a light? Common beliefs can add to the list.

three is? Choose a young man? , that is, as mentioned above? Stealing green? The purpose is to survive the boy. Ye Tingxun's "Guangzhou Xiguan Zhuzhi Ci" cloud:? At night, the Lantern Festival is full of gongs, and Penglai has a spring outing. It is advisable for men to be vulgar and green, and to send more fruits to the bedside. ? Foshan?

the Tongji bridge will help the poor, and there will be no closure? On the Lantern Festival and the 16th day of the first month in Foshan, people boarded Tongji Bridge one after another, holding windmills in their hands and mumbling? Do you have a good economy and no closure? , take another one? Shengyi cuisine? (Lettuce), hundreds of thousands of people walked across Tongji Bridge, asking for one? Nine out of thirteen? The auspicious omen. Zhanjiang?

Dragon Dancer

Have you ever seen a dragon dancer?

Every Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and some major festive festivals, how many nights does dongshan town on the East Island of Zhanjiang dance? A dragon? It looks high in technology! This is an important part of the enduring folk customs and entertainment activities in large squares in the East Island and even Leizhou Peninsula. Meizhou Fengshun?

burning dragon

burning dragon is a national intangible cultural heritage, which is held every year in Puzhai Town, Fengshun County, Meizhou City? Fire dragon? The activity, which has a history of 3 years, is a blessing activity for local people to pray for good weather and prosperity in the new year.

each one is held by 3 or 4 shirtless youths, plus drummers, lobsters, goldfish and others, and the whole team has more than 2 people. Maoming?

how about the new year? , can be lively. There are many links, such as wandering the gods, playing lanterns, lighting lamps, fighting, lion dancing, dragon dancing, floating colors, eight tones, martial arts performances, performing big dramas (Cantonese operas), puppet shows and setting off fireworks and firecrackers. Legend has it? Year? , but the grain is abundant and the people are happy! Chaoshan area?

Hanging happy lanterns

Of course, the traditional customs in Chaoshan are indispensable, and they are all ancient and traditional. Chaoshan dialect? Lights? And? Ding? Homophony, lighting and adding Ding are close sounds, so people think that lighting is a good omen for adding Ding. On the Lantern Festival, people carry lanterns and prepare paper and silver incense sticks, light them at the temple in the countryside, and come back to hang them at the shrine and bedside at home. This is called? Hanging happy lights? .

crossing the bridge

During the Lantern Festival, Chaoshan has the custom of crossing the bridge. In Jieyang, on the Lantern Festival, men, women and children rushed to cross the bridge, and the younger brother prayed for a good wife in the future; The girl prayed for a good husband and a boy; Old people pray for health and longevity; Children pray to grow up. Also in Puning Hongyang? Fifteen nights on the bridge? The custom of. ? Head bridge? That is, the Taiping Bridge, which has a history of more than 4 years, has two stone lions on both sides of the railings. Every midnight snack, men, women and children walk across the Taiping Bridge. Don't look back when crossing the bridge, otherwise? It's unlucky to turn back? People crossing the bridge also have the custom of touching stone lions.

The correct way for Cantonese to celebrate the Lantern Festival

What do Cantonese people eat during the Lantern Festival

During the Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls, mainly praying for the family to be round and round. The glutinous rice used for making glutinous rice balls is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the functions of tonifying deficiency, regulating blood, invigorating spleen and appetizing, benefiting qi and stopping diarrhea, and has the functions of warming the middle warmer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. In addition, the conventional stuffing of all kinds of glutinous rice balls is mainly fruit and dried fruit, including sesame, walnut and peanut, plus vegetable oil. What is the nutritional value? To the next level? . Boiling dumplings in water is the simplest way, but also the healthiest way to eat them.

Cantonese people eat lettuce as well as glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival. Cantonese people are calm and down-to-earth, and they have the best intentions for festivals. Lettuce, which is most commonly used in festive occasions such as the opening of new stores, is also an essential holiday item for the Lantern Festival. Lettuce, which often becomes a common vegetable in the southern dining table, has the same name as? Making money? Homophonic, so it is also regarded as a symbol of wealth and good fortune.

How do Cantonese people make Lantern Festival

Guangdong people make Lantern Festival, and lion dancing is one of the major features. Lion dance is centered in Guangdong and is popular in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia. Although the Southern Lion is also a duet, the lion dancers wear knickerbockers and dance only with a colorful lion quilt. There are many schools of southern lions, including Qingyuan and Yingde. Chicken and lion? , Guangzhou and Foshan? Big head lion? , Gaohe, Zhongshan? Duck-billed lion , Dongguan? Kirin lion? Wait.

Lantern Festival is the perfect ending of the Lunar New Year. Lantern Festival activities in Guangdong are both traditional and fashionable, and visiting temple fairs is a major folk custom. There are not only delicious and fun, but also various wonderful performances at the temple fairs.

viewing the dragon in Meizhou

Every Lantern Festival in Puzhai Village, Fengshun County, there will be an annual dragon dance, in which the flaming dragon is danced. It is said that this can wish the family good health, the sweetness between lovers, and win the favor of prosperity. In Meizhou, the hometown of Hakka, Yuanxiao, a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, is very lively.

Foshan Cailong

Foshan Cailong sighs? Denghu?

Around the Lantern Festival, a large-scale Lingnan Lantern Festival was staged here. The large-scale colorful dragon with a total length of more than 2, meters started from the leading Chengmentou Square, and started along Chengmentou Road, Zumiao Road, Renmin Road, Fulu Road and Jinhua Road, and the dragon tail reached the Oriental Square, which was very spectacular.

Guangzhou Lizhi Bay has a strong festive atmosphere

Guangzhou Tour Liwan to watch a big drama

Walking in Lizhi Bay, rivers and lotus ponds, you can see swimming fish, and through winding corridors, you can shuttle between pavilions and pavilions, which makes you feel like you are in a Lingnan picture scroll. For the old Guangzhou people, spending the Lantern Festival in Lizhi Bay may find many childhood memories.

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