Eating "Yuanxiao" on the Lantern Festival is a traditional custom in China. Yuanxiao, also known as glutinous rice balls, has a long history in China as a food.
In Song Dynasty, it was popular for people to eat a novel food after the Lantern Festival. This kind of food was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow osmanthus, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be both meat and vegetarian and has different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried and steamed, which means a happy reunion. On the fifteenth day of the first month, people all over the country make Yuanxiao to celebrate the festival.
2. Set off fireworks
Setting off fireworks is an indispensable activity to celebrate festivals in China, and the Lantern Festival is no exception. When colorful fireworks shoot into the sky, the night sky suddenly becomes splendid and dazzling, and the fire trees and silver flowers on the ground and the earth form a beautiful picture, which is one of the favorite programs for people to watch on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.
3. 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.
4. Social fire
Shehuo is a traditional celebration carnival to celebrate the Spring Festival in China. Xiaobian's hometown is in the north. Every year on the 15th day of the first month, every village has a social fire performance, which means that the villagers' days will be prosperous in the coming year.
5, lion dance
The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols. Lion dance is an excellent folk art in our country. Every Lantern Festival or assembly celebration, people always come to entertain with lion dance, which is said to be popular in the south. 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.
6. Flower viewing lamp
Lantern viewing is a pleasure for ordinary people to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and it is also an activity that is still widely circulated. On the fifteenth day of the first month, temple fairs and parks all over the country launched lantern viewing activities one after another. At that time, there were many stars in the sky, fire trees and silver flowers on the ground, and the world was a happy and peaceful scene, which was very lively.
7, walking away from all diseases
"Walking away from all diseases" is also called swimming away from all diseases, dispersing all diseases, baking all diseases, walking on bridges, etc. It is also an activity that people use to eliminate disasters and pray for health. 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 the night of the Lantern Festival, many women will meet and travel together, and when they see a bridge, they will be able to get rid of illness and prolong life. On the Lantern Festival, single friends are good for walking more and can also improve their emotional fortune.