Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. 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.
The Cultural Value of Lantern Festival
The traditional festivals and customs in China have adapted to the comprehensive needs of the broad masses of people in China in material, spiritual, ethical and aesthetic aspects. In terms of material life, traditional festivals in China have many unique foods in different festivals. On the Lantern Festival, the whole family eats glutinous rice balls together. The sound of "glutinous rice balls" is similar to that of "reunion", which symbolizes reunion and harmony. ?
The cultural value of Lantern Festival lies in that it is a carnival for all people, and everyone participates and enjoys it. Because of the opening of the ancient Lantern Festival, the crowds were woven and men and women met, which was easy to produce love. For thousands of years, two of a kind's love stories staged in the Lantern Festival are endless.
The main activity of Lantern Festival is mass entertainment, but its social and cultural significance is not just entertainment. There are many religious activities on the fifteenth day of the first month, praying for the blessing of the gods.