Eating Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival, the outer skin made of glutinous rice flour, filled with petals, sugar, nuts, jujube paste, etc., wrapped into a round, can be boiled in soup, deep-fried, steamed, because of the shape of the round, but also the meaning of the reunion.
"Lantern Festival" has a long history in China. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular to eat a kind of Lantern Festival "floating Yuanzi" called "Lantern", the businessman also called "Yuanbao", this custom has been continued to the present day.
Lantern
Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, when the moon is full, it is appropriate to enjoy the moon hanging lanterns, Lantern Festival Lantern Festival Lantern custom began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, Sui and Tang dynasties after the prevalence of the style of the lights and inherited in later generations.
Before the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the streets are full of lanterns, flowers everywhere, light swaying, the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the streets and alleys, red lanterns hanging high, there are palace lanterns, animal head lanterns, horse lanterns, flower lanterns, bird and bird lanterns and so on, attracting the masses of the lanterns.
Guess the lantern riddle
Lantern Festival, people will make lanterns, lanterns will be seen in the lanterns above a lot of riddles, which is another tradition of the Lantern Festival - guess the lantern riddle, every first month of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the traditional folk to hang up colorful lanterns, burning fireworks, and then there are good people to the riddle written on a strip of paper, pasted on the five in the paper, pasted on the colorful lanterns for people to guess.
Riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so many people responded to the riddles, and then riddles gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival.
The Dragon and Lion Dance
Every festival or gathering, celebration will have a team of dragon and lion dance to cheer the activities, the Chinese people worship the dragon, the dragon as a symbol of good luck. The Lantern Festival is such a lively festival, of course, there is no shortage of dragon and lion dances.
The Dragon and Lion Dance has different customs in different places, some areas are where the viewers gather to watch the Dragon and Lion Dance performances, while some areas are where the Dragon and Lion Dance teams parade along the streets to perform.
What are the customs of the Lantern Festival
1, Beijing
The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. The annual Shangyuan Lantern Festival, dragon and lion dances, old Beijing hawking and other traditional programs of the Lantern Festival that are full of old Beijing's folklore are a big part of why old Beijingers look forward to this festival.
The traditional Old Beijing Lantern Festival events mainly consist of 3 parts: flower show, lantern show and eating Lantern Festival.
2, Hebei Province
Hebei's more unique Lantern Festival customs are the Jingfu pull flower, Jingfu pull flower is a strain of ancient art oddball. Zanhuang County Lantern Festival custom - "pulling the threshing floor", pulling the Lulu Threshing Floor is a kind of dance that expresses the labor life, the main activity in the Lantern Festival, it is accompanied by percussion.
There are big drums, gongs, cymbals and water cymbals. On the Lantern Festival in Yongpingfu, sick women gather under the kiln, called "Tao Moxibustion". Children staggered degree bridge, called the "degree of hundred Er". Some people also cut paper into nine paper ropes, hand knots to divine the blame, called "knot sheep's intestines".
3, Anhui Province
Fengyang County, the ancient city, swinging, picking lanterns, put down the torch and other folk customs, into the Lantern Festival of the three major customs. Fengyang folk "Lantern Festival swing, a year of back pain". Every Lantern Festival, the most exciting thing for children is to "pick lanterns".
A variety of lanterns a few days ago have been "grabbed early" on the market, different shapes of lanterns will be decorated with a new night Fucheng town. In the rural areas of Fengyang, pay attention to the children will be early and consciously collect, ready to some waste broom, brush handle, in preparation for the Lantern Festival put torch.
4, Shanxi Province
Hanging lanterns is a necessary form of celebrating the Lantern Festival in Shanxi. Whenever the Lantern Festival comes, every family hangs up all kinds of lights, from fourteen to sixteen, every night. Fireworks, for the people of Shanxi Lantern Festival the most delightful activities, Lantern Festival night in the square are going to fireworks activities, when the whole family went out into the street, to see the beautiful fireworks.
Literary street, known as folk culture makeup parade. From fourteen to sixteen, three consecutive days in various counties and districts are organized in various cultural performances to the city.
5, Shandong Province
Juggling activities is an important part of the Lantern Festival. Various forms of juggling, lion dance, dragon dance, stilts, dry boat, flower stick, rice-planting songs, catching donkeys everything, the content of the main opera.
Qufu city around the village village to play dragon lanterns, the dragon lanterns of each village to perform in the Kongfu. Kongfu play dragon lantern place in the second door in front of the hall, usually not allowed to enter the Kongfu, this time also allows outsiders to enter to see the play dragon lantern. Playing dragon lanterns, the Confucius House of the pawn and "flower gun households" in the side of the fireworks.
6, Henan Province
Changxing Henan people's most unique custom, is the night of the Lantern Festival, families have to be in front of the ancestors' graves, with bamboo scotch and red paper tied on the lanterns, light the candles between them and let them burn out.
The general custom of the Lantern Festival is to enjoy lanterns, guess lantern riddles, eat dumplings and lion dances, and it is rare to see the custom of lighting lanterns in front of ancestors' graves even among the people of Henan.
7, Shaanxi Province
During the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, in addition to the big lanterns, there is also a "sky lantern" custom. This custom has a long history, according to the history of the Tang Dynasty has been this move.
"Accompanied by the lantern bun" popular in Shaanxi Tongchuan area. Every year on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, during the Lantern Festival, each family in their own houses, set up incense burning candles, firecrackers. Lights everywhere in the house, lights placed next to a variety of flower buns, known as "with the lights buns.
8, Jiangsu Province
Taizhou Lantern Festival has five major customs, eating Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, riddles, fireworks, send auspicious. Sending good luck is a custom unique to some towns in Taizhou. On the day of the Lantern Festival, relatives and friends should send bridge stakes and Guanyin to the newly-wed bride to wish for an early birth.
There are also places where the bride is dragged along the Baizi Bridge, again to seek a son.
9, Zhejiang Province
Hangzhou, the folk rumor of the first month of the fifteenth for the Shangyuan Tianguan blessing of the hour, more than Lenten vegetarian chanting scripture, prostrate to the Wushan worship. Haining County Lantern Festival is best known for its delicate chrysanthemum lanterns.
Shangyu County less than the Lantern Festival night to the counter-weights on the platform to compete in martial arts. Jiande County people have a newly married daughter-in-law, in the Lantern Festival set up wine offering bed.
10, Jiangxi Province
Wanan people from the first day of the first month of the first to fifteen after dinner, the whole village will gather in the village ancestral hall or temple, holding the Lantern Festival song book, to the Lantern Festival paintings singing, the local people called singing Lantern Festival song. On the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month, in addition to singing boats, praising boats, rowing boats and other activities, you have to drink Lantern wine and eat Lantern soup - this is the grand finale of the night.
The whole ancestral hall is full of tables and chairs, and some villagers use old sea pots full of their own brewed rice wine to pour a bowl full for each guest, and there is also a big pot of Lantern Soup for everyone to enjoy on each table
11, Hubei Province
Jingzhou, on the day of the Lantern Festival, the Guandi Temple will hold a large-scale temple fair, where the people of Jingzhou will play with dragon lanterns, row the Cailian Boat, ride the horseback and shoot arrows, blow the trumpet and set the sedan chair, and play with the Dragon lanterns, row the boat, ride the horseback and shoot arrows, and blow the trumpet and set the sedan chair, and play with the Dragon lanterns. , blowing horns set sedan chair, making a lot of noise. The boys who play the dragon have to go to the Guan Di Temple to pay homage to Guan Gong, and then dance the dragon along the streets of the old city.
In addition, the Lantern Festival is also Jingzhou people's "son-in-law day", this day is the father-in-law feast son-in-law day. Shiyan people pay special attention to the Lantern Festival, to hold a play Lantern Festival, such as dragon dance, play lion, rowing colorful lotus boat, dance mussel shells, stilts and so on. Among them, Shiyan Fangxian's "Fire Dragon" Lantern Festival is the most famous.
12, Hunan Province
Changde Lantern Festival families to pepper for the soup, adding leeks to watch the fruit of the guests, known as the "soup". Xintian County, after the dragon lanterns, the dragon lanterns will be put to the torch, known as "send disaster".
13, Sichuan Province
Sichuan Lantern Festival has a "four steal" custom: "a steal dumplings, two steal green, three steal eaves light four steal red." In addition to stealing the green is to strengthen the body, the rest of the custom is to seek children.
Kai County has the custom of "scolding". At the Lantern Festival, people carry benches to the outdoor area and curse all the grievances of the day, and those who are cursed are not allowed to curse back.
14, Fujian Province
Lantern Festival to the new bride to send lamps, is a custom in Fujian in the old days, the lamps sent around the style is not the same, but the same purpose: "add Ding." Some places in southern Fujian, such as Zhangpu, there is also a lamp festival called "wear lamp feet" custom.
The Dragon Lantern Dance in the Lantern Festival is the most popular program of the Lantern Festival in Fujian, with dragon lanterns tens of feet long, with a head and a tail. The lanterns are tens of feet long, with heads and tails. The festival also features a popular lantern quiz, which is also known as the "lantern riddle" or "lantern quiz".
15, Guangdong Province
Guangdong Lantern Festival like to "steal" picking lettuce, mixed with cakes and cakes to cook for good luck; Xin'an County, the people in the last year to give birth to a man, are celebrating the lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival. Nanxiong lanterns, parents take the dragon lanterns on the dragon beard line to the children tied, it is said to protect children from disease.
The remaining candles in the dragon lanterns are also taken to shine under the bed, which is said to give birth to a son. Wenchang County people steal green on the night of the Lantern Festival, steal in order to be scolded as an omen of good luck, steal those who are not in order not to be scolded as an omen of good luck.
16, Yunnan Province
Yunlong County in the Lantern Festival before the welcome three Chong God, along the street shed sacrifice. Mile State one day after the Lantern Festival burning incense in the bridge, throwing stones in the water, and then take the water to wash your eyes, it is said that you can go to the disease.