The Lantern Festival is mainly a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles and setting off fireworks. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places also added a dragon lantern parade, lion dance, walking on stilts, land boat rowing, yangko dance, beating drums and other traditional folk performances.
Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, is also called Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyian Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The formation of Lantern Festival has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on lights to pray for blessings.
Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.
Lantern Festival customs
1, play dragon lantern
Playing dragon lantern, also known as dragon lantern or dragon dance. The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu" in the Han Dynasty. The author vividly describes the dragon dance in the description of hundreds of plays. According to the Records of Sui Shu Music, Huanglongbian, which was similar to the dragon dance performance in one hundred plays during Emperor Yangdi's reign, was also very wonderful, and dragon dance was popular in many places in China. China worships dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols.
2. Walking on stilts
Walking on stilts is a popular folk mass performance. Stilts, originally one of the hundreds of ancient dramas in China, appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. China first introduced stilts in Liezi Shuofu: "In Song Dynasty, there were lanzi, who used their skills to dry Song and Yuan Dynasties. Song and Yuan Dynasties summoned them to see their skills.