The Lantern Festival is an important festival after the Spring Festival, and it is also a day for family reunion. So what are the customs of the Lantern Festival?

Next, let us enter the Lantern Festival together!

Customs of the Lantern Festival: 1. Eating Yuanxiao? Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. "Yuanxiao" has been a food in China for a long time.

During the Song Dynasty, a novel food became popular in Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province).

This kind of food was first called "Fu Yuanzi" and later "Yuanxiao". Businessmen also euphemistically called it "Yuanbao".

Yuanxiao is filled with sugar, roses, sesame, bean paste, cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and is wrapped into a round shape with glutinous rice flour. It can be meat or vegetarian and has different flavors.

It can be cooked in soup, fried or steamed, and has the meaning of happy reunion.

Shaanxi glutinous rice balls are not wrapped, but are "rolled" in glutinous rice flour. They are either boiled or deep-fried and heated until they are round and round.

2. Making lanterns? Making lanterns is one of the most important traditional activities of the Lantern Festival. It began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the custom of holding lanterns during the Lantern Festival became popular in the past dynasties. During the Southern Dynasties, the custom of holding the traditional Lantern Festival appeared in Jiankang (now Nanjing), the capital of the country, and its grand event was the highest in the country.

The Lantern Festival flourished in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty.

During the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, a lantern festival was held at Duanmen, the main gate of the palace city of Luoyang, the capital of the country, during the first lunar month, and the lights at Duanmen were flourishing.

According to documentary records, as early as the beginning of the Southern Dynasties, the Lantern Festival was held in the capital city of Nanjing, which was the earliest recorded lantern festival in China.

In order to pray for good weather, a happy family and peace in the world, the scene of lights and colorful decorations began to move from the deep palaces, forbidden gardens and religious sites to the public. The scene of "lights filling the streets" is quite spectacular.

In this regard, Emperors Xiao Gang and Chen Houzhu of Liang Jian Dynasty used vivid poems to describe the social custom of using lights to add to the festive atmosphere in the Southern Dynasties.

?3. Guessing lantern riddles? "Guessing lantern riddles", also called "playing lantern riddles", is a unique form of entertainment with rich national style in my country. It is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival that has been spread since ancient times.

Every fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every household would hang up colored lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some good people would write riddles on paper and stick them on the colorful lanterns for people to guess.

Because riddles can inspire wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded, and riddles gradually became an indispensable program during the Lantern Festival.

Guessing lantern riddles is a fun entertainment activity.

Lantern riddles originated from the lingo of the Western Han Dynasty, and later developed into folk riddles, also called "playing lantern riddles".

According to records, in the Southern Song Dynasty, guessing lantern riddles has become a way of playing the Lantern Festival.

During the Lantern Festival, the imperial city stays up all night. During the spring night lantern viewing party, people gather together and write poems and riddles on lanterns, reflect them on candles, and list them in the thoroughfares for anyone to guess, so they are called lantern riddles.

?4. Lion Dance? In the development process of more than a thousand years, lion dance has formed two performance styles, the north and the south.

The Northern Lion Dance mainly focuses on the performance of "Martial Lion", which is the "Auspicious Lion" of the Northern Wei Dynasty designated by Emperor Wu of Wei. The small lion is danced by one person, and the large lion is danced by two people. One person stands and dances the lion's head, and the other bends down and dances the lion's body and tail.

The lion dancer wears a lion quilt all over his body, and wears green lion trousers and gold-clawed boots with the same coat color as the lion's body. People can't identify the shape of the lion dancer. Its appearance is very similar to that of a real lion, which attracts lion people to ancient times.

Dressed as a warrior, holding a rotating hydrangea in hand, accompanied by gongs, cymbals, and auspicious lions. Under the guidance of the "Lion Man", the lion performs tricks such as tumbling, falling, jumping, climbing, and worshiping, and also performs plum blossom piles.

The Southern Lion Dance mainly performs "literary lion" movements, such as jumping around the table, stepping on the rolling ball, etc. The performance pays attention to expressions, including tickling, hair shaking, licking and other movements. It is lifelike and cute, and there are also some more difficult ones.

Big ball spitting and other techniques. The Southern Lion dance is centered in Guangdong and is popular in Hong Kong, Macao and the hometowns of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. Although the Southern Lion dance is also a two-person dance, the lion dancers only wear bloomers and a colorful lion quilt on top.

The difference between the northern lion and the lion is that he wears a big-headed Buddha mask, a long robe, and a colorful belt around his waist. He holds a sunflower fan in his hand and teases the lion, so that he can dance various graceful moves with funny and funny movements. There are many schools of the southern lion.

The "rooster lion" in Qingyuan and Yingde, the "big-headed lion" in Guangzhou and Foshan, the "duck-billed lion" in Gaohe and Zhongshan, and the "unicorn lion" in Dongguan are not only different in appearance, but also have different personalities.

The white-bearded lion's dance is not wide-ranging and has few varieties, but it is calm, vigorous, majestic and powerful. The people call it "Liu Bei lion". The black-bearded red-faced lion is also known as "Guan Gong lion". It dances bravely and majesticly and has extraordinary spirit.

The gray-bearded lion has rough and warlike movements, and is commonly known as the "Zhang Fei Lion". The lion is the king of beasts, with a majestic image and a sense of majesty and bravery. The ancients regarded it as a symbol of bravery and strength, and believed that it could ward off evil spirits.

Therefore, people gradually formed the custom of dancing lions during the Lantern Festival and other major events to pray for good luck and peace in everything.

Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. It is one of the traditional festivals of China and overseas Chinese in areas with Chinese character culture.