The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese custom, and in 2020 it falls on February 8th. Once the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar is over every year, it means the official end of our New Year, and everyone is going to usher in the official life of the next year. In this moment that has been passed down for thousands of years, naturally, there are many traditional customs that have been staged.
2020 Lantern Festival is how many monthsSaturday, February 08, 2020 (Gengzi year (Year of the Rat) the first month of the fifteenth, from the lunar calendar 2020 Lantern Festival there is one day)
The first month of the fifteenth lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as "on the Yuan Festival". It is one of the traditional festivals in China, and is also one of the traditional festivals in the areas of the Chinese character culture circle and overseas Chinese.
2020 Lantern Festival highway freeAccording to the provisions of the 2020 Lantern Festival high speed is not free, because the Lantern Festival is not a legal holiday in China. At present, China's high speed free is limited to the period of legal holidays. But due to the impact of this year's new crown pneumonia epidemic, many provinces and cities will tell the free time are extended to February 9, and cancel the traffic restrictions.
Strolling Lantern FestivalMany places on the 15th day of the first lunar month will hold Lantern Festival, where people enjoy lanterns, dragon lanterns and riddles together to enjoy the festival.
Lanterns serve to expel darkness, while lanterns symbolize people's pursuit of beauty. In some places, there is also a tradition of giving lanterns to newly-married daughters from their mother's family for good luck, as the word "lantern" harmonizes with the word "ding".
Eating LanternLantern Festival of course, the Lantern Festival without Lantern, the traditional Lantern is made of glutinous rice flour, China is a multi-ethnic, so the specific production methods of Lantern there are differences, of course, with the regional differences are also related to the south and the north of the dumplings made of a big difference.
Lion DanceThe traditional custom of the lion dance originated in the era of the North and South Dynasties in China, and is especially prevalent in the south of China, especially in the Guangdong area, where the Guangzhou Lion Dance is very famous. It sends a kind of auspicious wish of the laboring people.
Guessing riddlesGuessing riddles is a traditional form of folk entertainment in China, in the current every first month of the fifteenth, the more densely populated squares will be full of colorful lanterns, plastered with lantern riddles, red hot and lively.
Rat by rat
Rat by rat is also a first month of the fifteenth of the folk activities, originated in China during the Wei and Jin dynasties, because in ancient times, sericulture people are afraid of rats eating silkworms at night, so in the first month of the fifteenth with rice porridge will be full of rats, the rats will not be in the mutilation of mulberry farmers.