Because the first month is the beginning of a year, Chaoshan people often regard it as a sign of the quality of the new year's annual transportation, so there are many "taboos" during the Spring Festival. The following is my composition on the customs of Chaoshan Lantern Festival. Welcome to read! Chapter 1: Chaoshan Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. It originated from the Western Han Dynasty in China, and is regarded by Chaoshan people as a festival to celebrate the happy reunion, a symbol of good luck and a beautiful night for a better future. Shangyuan is the first full moon night when spring returns to the earth, so it is called Yuanye and Yuanxi, and the tide is commonly known as "Fifteen Nights". Ancient times were the most charming, lively and "night-time" of the year. This night is not only bright and bright, but also bright and twinkling in thousands of households, so it is also called "Lantern Festival". In the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1862), Chen Kun, a supervisor in Chaoyang County, recited the poem "Chaozhou Yuanxiao": "The lights in Shangyuan are red in six streets, and the figures, clothes and fragrance are the same everywhere. When you meet with a smile, there is no news. Who works with a lamp and tiger? " Tang Bohu, a romantic talent in the south of the Yangtze River, also left a wonderful poem praising the popularity of the Lantern Festival: "There is no entertainment without lights, and there is no spring without lights; Towards everywhere spring comes as seen here with lady fair, Over bright moonlit night flashing lanterns set off the moon as pure silver. The streets are full of women in the village, and the stars are singing and playing; If you don't smile, how can you get rid of this good time? " Poetry tells the moving scene of a man and a woman having a Lantern Festival.

Chaoshan people's Lantern Festival cultural entertainment activities are rich in content, diverse in forms, varied, distinctive and fascinating. In addition to traditional lanterns, there are fireworks, animal dances, lion dances and dragon dances, graffiti plays, yangko dances, square plays, movie screenings, swings and solve riddles on the lanterns. There are also "sitting on a big dish", "pushing the toilet wall", "holding a big pig", "seeking happiness", "making a ding table", "hanging banyan branches and bamboo tips on the door" and "gambling on sugar lions", which contain folk customs and anecdotes. In particular, every household in Zhanglin ancient port of Chenghai has to cook rat meal and feed it to relatives and friends for tasting. This peach is the most homesick for overseas hipsters. On the night of Lantern Festival, the whole family is reunited, and a banquet is held to eat "family fun". At the feast of delicious food, clams, garlic and fish are indispensable delicacies. Shells of clams in ancient times mean coins, and eating clams means "money counts"; Eating garlic symbolizes good luck for many years and "will be cost-effective"; Fish-eating pray for a rich family, more than every year, etc.

It turns out that there are so many customs in Chaoshan Lantern Festival. Chapter 2: Chaoshan Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival celebrated by all, and the celebrations in Chaoshan area are particularly lively. The main activities include dancing lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, dragon (lion) dancing and eating dumplings. The excitement of the Lantern Festival in Chaoshan people has long been recorded in historical materials: Ming Jiajing's edition of the Chaozhou drama Lijing Ji, when the lantern was folded, said that "three streets and six lanes are good lamp sheds"; Qing Jiaqing's Chenghai County Chronicle said: "Today, on the Lunar New Year's Eve, all the temples are decorated with lanterns, competing for the Aoshan Mountain, with picturesque figures and pavilions ... competing for lanterns."

In fact, nowadays, people in Chaoshan are not confined to the 15th day of the first month, and celebrations (such as temple fairs) often run through. In villages and towns, at this time of year, venerable old people come out to take the lead and organize villages to send their own dragon (lion) dance teams to participate in the collective parade to meet the gods, and the day when the parade arrives in a village is the day when the village is "lively" and worships the gods. In addition, some towns and villages that have carried out better spiritual civilization construction will organize friendship basketball games during this period, which will not only enliven the atmosphere, but also strengthen the communication between villages (towns). Chapter 3: Chaoshan Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival. This is because Taoism believes in the three official gods (Tiangong, Underground Palace and People's Palace), and takes the fifteenth day of the first month as the heavenly palace season, which is called Shangyuan Festival, hoping for heavenly blessing. Most of the activities of Lantern Festival in Chaoshan include hanging lanterns, swimming lanterns, lion dancing, solve riddles on the lanterns, eating soup pills and so on. Its main content is lanterns, so it is also called Lantern Festival. It has the strongest amusement color, so it is called Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival in Chaoshan is a grand festival next to the Spring Festival. The old-fashioned God Touring Games are all held around the Lantern Festival, with long activities, many projects and more intense folk culture. After the reform and opening-up, local governments advocated to carry out various healthy Spring Festival cultural activities and social activities at home and abroad during this period, making this festival more contemporary and positive.

Lantern Festival lanterns have always been popular. Ming Jiajing's engraving of the Chao Opera "The Story of the Mirror" was once folded, saying that "three streets and six lanes are good light sheds". Qing Jiaqing's "Chenghai County Records" quoted the old zhiyun: "From the night of the eleventh, the temples and streets were decorated with lights, ladies and girls toured, flowers exploded, and swings were played, and the songs reached a peak." He also said: "On this common night, all the temples are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, competing for the Aoshan Mountain, with picturesque figures and pavilions ... competing for lanterns." The most famous one is Chaozhou. After the rise of Qinglong Temple in Chaozhou in the early Qing Dynasty, the city was intoxicated with lanterns and drums for three nights every year. Every time on the second night, we gather in the North Gate Arrow Road Appraisal, and strive for perfection year after year, making Chaozhou Lantern famous at home and abroad. Chaozhou folk songs include "Hundred Screen Lantern Song", which shows the prosperity of Chaozhou Lantern Festival.

except for the large-scale lantern festival, every household hangs happy lanterns. Starting from the 13th, I went to the ancestral temple to hang lanterns, and on the 15th, I took the lanterns back and hung them at home, which is called Xing Lantern. "Light" is homophonic with "Ding". The old customs all want to "prosper people", which is convenient for the Lantern Festival to make homophonic "Xing Deng (Ding)" articles on the lanterns. Nowadays, Lantern Festival viewing basically has no such connotation. In towns and some rural areas where civilization has been well developed, the old customs have been abandoned, and instead, all kinds of neon lights for commercial advertisements, decorative lighting for government organizations, stars all over the sky in parks and roads, and all kinds of lanterns with dry batteries for children to enjoy. Many households have colored lights, and some have traditionally hung red lanterns with light bulbs. Cities and counties also hold large-scale lantern exhibitions, with fire trees and silver flowers, colorful, old bottles and new wines, which are enjoyable.