Yuanxiao is also called Tangyuan, and it is our traditional Lantern Festival custom to eat Tangyuan on the fifteenth day of the first month, which means that the older generation value harmony. They always hope that every family in the new year will be harmonious and beautiful, and everything will be round and round, and they will eat a bowl of Tangyuan with the elderly, which is a good sign for the next year.

Lantern festival lantern festival

Lantern Festival is a traditional custom of our people. Throughout the ages, there are not only a large number of popular Lantern Festival poems, but also numerous interesting Lantern Festival couplets.

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty and the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, when a man named Jia Sidao was guarding Huaiyin (now Yangzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty, one year, lanterns were put up on the Lantern Festival, and some of the guests picked poems from the Tang Dynasty as a lantern couplet, "It's a moonlit night in the world, and a small red building in Yangzhou is ten miles away." It is said that this couplet is the earliest lantern couplet in China. Since then, people all over the world have followed suit. Hanging wall lamp couplets and door lamp couplets on the gates or conspicuous columns not only adds festive interest to the Lantern Festival, but also increases the appreciation content for people who enjoy the lanterns.

Zhang Ying and Zhang Tingyu, from Tongcheng, Anhui Province in the Qing Dynasty, who were known as "the bachelor of father and son, the second prime minister", were both good at poetry. One year, during the Lantern Festival, Zhang Fu decorated lanterns and set off firecrackers as usual. The old prime minister sent out a joint test, "The high fever red candle reflects the sky, bright, and the light is all over the ground." When Xiao Tingyu was thinking, she heard a firework sound outside the door, and suddenly realized that she said, "The fireworks at a low point shook the earth, and the sound was loud, and her breath went up into the sky." The antithesis is neat and seamless, which is a wonderful right.