On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, there is the delivery of children's lamps, lion dance, riddle-guessing, eating Lantern Festival and so on. Guessing lantern riddles, also known as playing lantern riddles, is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival that has been passed down since ancient times. The Dragon Lantern Dance is also known as the Dragon Dance or Dragon Dance. It is a traditional custom to eat Yuanxiao on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, which is also known as soupyuanxiao. Stilt-walking is a popular folkloric performance. Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever there is a Lantern Festival or a gathering, the folk will use lion dance to cheer up.
1, send children's lamp
Send children's lamp referred to as "send lamps", also known as "send lanterns" and so on, that is, before the Lantern Festival, the mother's family to send lanterns to the newly married Daughter's home, or general friends and relatives to the newly married sterile home, in order to add Ding auspicious omen, because the "lights" and "Ding" harmonized.
This custom in many places, Xi'an, Shaanxi area is the first eight to fifteen during the first month to send lights, the first year to send a pair of large lanterns, a pair of glass lamps with colorful paintings, hoping that the daughter of the marriage after the happiness, early birth, such as the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the large lanterns, but also to send one or two pairs of small lanterns, the meaning of the daughter of the pregnancy when I wish her safe and smooth.
2, lion dance
Lion dance, is China's outstanding folk art, also known as the ancient "peace music". Lion dance is divided into north and south, the southern lion is also known as the waking lion. The lion is made of strips of colored cloth, and each lion is usually performed by two people, one dancing at the head and the other at the tail.
Performers dress up as dogs or other beasts (such as braves and lions) under the music of gongs and drums and make various movements in order to celebrate and be auspicious. During the performance, the lion dancers use a variety of moves to show the southern school of martial arts, which is very masculine.
The lion dance is considered to be a lucky charm to drive away evil spirits and avoid harm, and it has been passed down from generation to generation with the help of a lion dance at every festival or major event.
3, guessing riddles
"Guessing riddles", also known as "playing riddles", is a unique Chinese national style of a form of entertainment, from ancient times has been passed down the Lantern Festival Characteristic activities. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, every family should hang up colored lanterns, fireworks, and then there are good people to write riddles on paper, pasted on the colorful lanterns for people to guess.
Because the riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so the response of many people, and then riddles gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles were first developed from riddles, originating in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is a kind of literary game which is full of ridicule, admonition, warning, wit and jest. Riddles are hung in lamps for people to guess and shoot, which began in the Southern Song Dynasty.
4, eating Lantern Festival
Eating Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday customs, more in the Lantern Festival, meaning reunion, peace and security. About the Lantern Festival food customs, there have been some interesting legends. One says that after Chang'e ran to the moon, her husband thought of his wife into a disease, finally got the immortal instructions, in the first month of the fifteenth with rice flour for pills, called Chang'e name, finally and Chang'e together.
5, on stilts
The first fifteenth day of the first month on stilts is one of the traditional folk customs, but also has a long history and origin. In the folk culture tradition, stilt-walking on the 15th day of the first month is a very important activity.
The stilt-walking is a popular mass skill performance. Stilts are a kind of ancient theater in China, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. Performers on stilts play the roles of fishermen, matchmakers, fools, little brothers, Taoist nuns, monks and so on. The performers look funny and can arouse the audience's great interest.
The stilt-walking has a special meaning in traditional folk activities. The idiom of "happy family, stilt-walking, step by step" carries a good meaning.
First Moon Festival:
The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China is a vast country with a long history, so the customs about the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, among which eating Lantern Festival, enjoying lanterns, dragon dance, lion dance, etc. are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, so all over the country, most of the region's customs are more or less the same, but each region also still has its own characteristics.
Since the Lantern Festival, the formation of the custom of the lanterns, the dynasties have been to the first month of the fifteenth lanterns to view the lanterns as a major event. Liang Jianwendi once wrote a "lamps fugue": "South oil are full, the West paint to burn. Su Zheng rest, wax out of Longchuan. The slanting sunlight is reflected, and the reflection is clear and fresh." It depicted the pomp and circumstance of the palace at the Lantern Festival. In the time of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, a grand party was held on the 15th day of the first month of every year to entertain the guests and envoys from all over the world.