1, Tangyuan Lantern Festival The common custom in most areas is to eat Tangyuan! Tangyuan means reunion, and the whole family gathers together to eat tangyuan, which is harmonious and beautiful. There are two kinds of dumplings: solid and stuffing. The former is to knead glutinous rice flour into a finger-sized round, and add appropriate sugar water to cook it. The latter is made of sesame seeds, peanuts, nuts, sweet-scented osmanthus, sucrose, lard, etc., and made of glutinous rice flour as a leather bag. It is sweet and delicious and is an essential food for the Lantern Festival. There is a saying in the saying that harmony makes money. Family harmony and family reunion are important factors for a complete family. Therefore, on the Lantern Festival, we must have a family reunion and eat dumplings with our families.
2. Walking on stilts is a very old folk performance, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. Now it's Lantern Festival, and this kind of folk activity of walking on stilts is popular in many places. Stilts are usually made of wood. Make a support point in the planed wooden stick to put your feet, and then tie them to your legs with ropes. Performers can not only walk freely on stilts, but also do various difficult movements such as splitting forks, jumping on benches, dancing yangko, dancing knives and making guns. Whenever the Lantern Festival, I like to watch the performance of walking on stilts best. Because the homonym of "stilts" is "look up", which means that after the spring of the new year, people must be far-sighted. The old man said that the longer you walk on stilts, it indicates whether this person can be far-sighted for a long time, so the mass base of the Lantern Festival is very broad.
3. solve riddles on the lanterns 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, 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.
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. Lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere, showing the intelligence and wisdom of ancient working people and their yearning for a better life.
4. Dragon Dance "Dragon Dance" is also called "Playing Dragon Lantern" and "Dragon Lantern Dance". There are two kinds of "Dragon Dance" performances: "Single Dragon Playing with Beads" and "Double Dragon Playing with Beads". Dancing it is a unique folk entertainment activity in China. Dragon is not a real animal in reality. It is a sacred species that ancient ancestors imagined and integrated into the ancient cultural system of China, representing auspiciousness and strength. Therefore, dragon dancing has a beautiful meaning of praying for good weather in the New Year and avoiding misfortune.
5. Lantern Festival One of the most grand activities of the Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival. As the saying goes, "Thirty nights of fire, fifteen nights of lights". Lantern Festival Lantern Festival prevailed in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Lantern Festival was most prosperous in Guilin, Wuzhou, Guiping, Yulin and Qinzhou, and the "Dragon Lantern Tour" in Guilin was the most spectacular. In recent years, Lantern Festival is very popular in Nanning. In Hakka dialect, "Deng" and "Ding" are homonyms, and hanging lanterns means hanging Ding. Therefore, Lantern Festival lanterns have such folk implication-symbolizing the reproduction of children and the prosperity of people.
These are the customs I know about the Lantern Festival. What else do you know, my friends?