There are many stories about the origin of the Lantern Festival, the most widely circulated of which is related to Taoism. Taoism believes in the "three gods", and legend has it that each of the "three gods" has his own birthday. Among them, the birthday of the "Heavenly Official" is the fifteenth day of the first month. It is said that the heavenly officials are in charge of granting blessings to the earth, so people cheerfully celebrate the birthday of the "Heavenly Officials" on this day to pray for the "Heavenly Officials to grant blessings".
At the Lantern Festival, every family eats Lantern Festival, which is also known as Tangyuan, and is said to have originated in the late Spring and Autumn Period. There are many different kinds of Lantern Festival, with five kinds of flavors: sweet, sour, spicy and salty. There are two kinds of practices: wrapping and shaking. The methods of consumption are boiled, fried and steamed.
What excites me most is to see the process of dancing dragon lanterns, an activity whose origin can be traced back to ancient times. In the long run, many styles of dragon lanterns have been formed, and usually these dragons are made of bamboo scissors. In the past Lantern Festival, I also ran to the city square to see the dragon dance, see the dragon dance can be said to be a sea of people, "dragon" in the drums and gongs in the accompaniment of the dance, the momentum of the majestic and spectacular. I can't help but watch and dance.
The Lantern Festival also has a program of rowing a dry boat, according to folklore, this activity is to commemorate the interest of the Great Yu water. The so-called dry boat is made of thin wooden boards and bamboo shoots tied into a sedan chair similar to the shape of the boat, and then covered with colored cloth decoration. The rowers are mostly girls, who sit in the boat with oars in their hands and make rowing movements, singing some local songs while rowing. Some other men are painted as clowns, pretending to be boatmen, amusing the audience with all kinds of comical actions. Rowing dry boat is popular in many parts of China.
There are lamps without ears not entertaining people, there is a moon without lamps do not count spring. Spring is like jade on earth, and the moon is like silver under the burning lamp.