Customs of Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival, walking on stilts, eating Yuanxiao, dancing lions, solve riddles on the lanterns and Youlong lanterns, playing drums for welcoming children, setting off fireworks, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums.
Second, the origin of the Lantern Festival
The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, which originated from the folk custom of turning on lights to pray for blessings. Generally, lanterns are "tested" on the fourteenth night of the first month, and they are put out on the fifteenth night, which is also called "sending lanterns" to worship and pray for God. According to records, during the Yongping period of Emperor Hanming, in order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Hanming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in palaces and monasteries on the fifteenth night of the first month. On the fifteenth day of the first month, "burning lanterns is Buddha", and Buddha lanterns spread all over the people. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lantern Festival was formally formed as a festival. In the early years of Sui Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was fully formed.
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Third, the ancient poems about the Lantern Festival.
1, Zhang Hu night light on the 15th day of the first month of the Tang Dynasty:
Thousands of doors were unlocked and brightly lit, and they moved to Dijing in the middle of the first month.
Three hundred wives danced in sleeves and wrote the sky in an instant.
2. Bian Jing Yuan Opera by Li Mengyang in Ming Dynasty;
Zhongshan Ruzi leans on new makeup, and Yan Ji, the daughter, plays alone.
Sing Wang Xianchun Yuefu together, and the moon outside the golden beam bridge is like frost.
3. Song Ouyang Xiu "Cha Sheng Zi Yuan Xi":
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the flower market is brightly lit.
The moon rose to the willow tree, and he met me at dusk.
On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of this year, the moonlight and lights are still the same as last year.
I will never see my old friend last year again, and my tears are soaked through my clothes.