What date is the Lantern Festival? 202 1 Lunar 202 1 Year. Date of the Lantern Festival: 202 1 February 26th, Friday, the 15th day of the first month of the Year of the Ox.
Is the Lantern Festival a holiday? No, the Lantern Festival is not a legal holiday.
What are the customs of Lantern Festival 1, eating Yuanxiao and glutinous rice balls?
"Yuanxiao is eaten in the north and Tangyuan is eaten in the south". Although Yuanxiao and Tangyuan both mean "round and round", there are many differences, such as their "birth time", practices and appearance.
Yuanxiao appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, while Tangyuan appeared in the Song Dynasty. In practice, Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice flour, which is mainly sweet. They are big, irregular in shape and dry and soft in appearance. Tangyuan is made of glutinous rice flour bag, with all kinds of sweet, salty and meat, smooth and sticky skin and no floating powder.
2. Lantern
The Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival because there are customs such as hanging lanterns, lighting lanterns and watching lanterns. In Taiyuan area, the lanterns in Taigu County are very famous. On the fifteenth night of the first month, red lights are hung high in the streets and lanes, including palace lanterns, animal headlights, lantern lanterns, flower lanterns, bird lanterns and so on, attracting people to watch the lanterns.
3. solve riddles on the lanterns
Solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is a unique form of traditional folk entertainment with rich national style in China. It is a characteristic activity of Lantern Festival that has been circulating since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess.
4, lion dance
Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Every Lantern Festival or assembly celebration, people always come to entertain with lion dance.
"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.
5. Row a dry boat
Rowing a dry boat, folklore is to commemorate Dayu who has made great contributions to water control. 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.
6, offering doors, offering households
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.
7. Rat by rat
Rat-chasing is a traditional folk activity during the Lantern Festival, which began in Wei and Jin Dynasties. 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.
8. 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".
9. Ying Zigu
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.
10, walking all diseases
"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.