China is a vast country with a long history, so the customs about the Lantern Festival are not the same in all parts of the country, among which eating Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Dance, Lion Dance and so on are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, so it is celebrated all over the country, and the customs in most areas are more or less the same, but each area still has its own characteristics.
1, eat Lantern Festival
New Year's Eve to eat Lantern Festival, "Lantern Festival" as a food, has a long history in China. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat the novelty of food. This food, the earliest called "floating Yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao".
2, Lantern
The first month of the lunar calendar on the fifteenth is the "Lantern Festival", the festival folk have hanging lamps, playing lamps, lanterns and other customs, so it is also known as the Festival of Lights.
3, guess the lantern riddle
Guess the lantern riddle, also known as playing lantern riddles, is unique to China's rich national style of a form of traditional folk entertainment activities, is from ancient times began to circulate the Lantern Festival features activities.
4, playing dragon lanterns
Juggling dragon lanterns, also known as dragon dance or dragon dance. See in the written records of the dragon dance, is the Han Dynasty Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu", the author of the hundred plays in the narrative of the dragon dance made a vivid depiction.
5, stilt-walking
Stilt-walking is a popular mass skill show. Stilts are a kind of ancient Chinese opera, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in China is in the article of "Liezi": "There was a Lanzi in Song, who used his skill to dry Song Yuan. Song Yuan summoned him to see his skill.
The above reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Lantern Festival