1, the 15th day of the first month
The first day of the first month, the 15th day of the first month, hanging lanterns;
Juggling lions and dancing dragons, round soup dumplings in a bowl;
You take a bite and I take a bite, sweet life good mood.
2, Lantern Festival
Square, really lively, full of Lantern raw materials.
You rub, I press, we do it to make the lanterns.
Compete with each other and compete with each other in the Lantern Games.
3. The 15th Lantern Festival
The 15th Moon is a garden, and the 15th dumplings are sweet.
The firecrackers on the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival are loud and clear, and the fireworks are singing.
The lanterns of the fifteenth day of the month are brightly lit.
Expanded:
The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China and the Chinese Character Cultural Circle area, as well as among overseas Chinese. The Lantern Festival is mainly characterized by a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating dumplings, guessing lantern riddles and setting off fireworks. In addition, in many places, the Lantern Festival has also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, dry boats, rice-planting songs and drums, etc. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as one of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritages.
The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, according to general information and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month in the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance to the Han Emperor Wu Di first month of the night of Sin in the Ganquan Palace to sacrifice "Taiyi" activities, was seen by the later generations as the fifteenth day of the first month of the festival of the gods of the first voice. However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is really a folk festival after the Han Dynasty.
The custom of burning lanterns on the 15th day of the first month is related to the eastward spread of Buddhism. During the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism flourished, and officials and people generally "burned lamps for Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first month, and Buddhist lamps were then spread throughout the people. From the Tang Dynasty onwards, the Lantern Festival that has become a legal thing, and gradually become a folk custom.