What are you doing during the Lantern Festival, and what are you going to do during the Lantern Fest

Traditional customs such as watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, dragon dance, eating glutinous rice balls and setting off fireworks.

Watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, dragon dance, eating glutinous rice balls and setting off fireworks.

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, according to the general information and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been valued in the Western Han Dynasty, the first month of the first month of the Han Dynasty on the night of the Xin night in the Ganquan Palace to worship the "Taiyi" activities, (Taiyi: the god who dominates all the universe), is regarded by later generations as the precursor of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to worship the gods. However, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was really a folk festival after the Han and Wei dynasties.

The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty has an important significance for the formation of the custom of the Lantern Festival.

During the Yongping period of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty (58-75 AD), because Emperor Ming advocated Buddhism, it coincided with Cai Su's return from India to seek Buddhism, and said that the Indian Mahada country was on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the monks gathered to pay homage to the Buddha's relics, which was an auspicious day to visit the Buddha. In order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth night of the first lunar month to "burn lamps to show the Buddha" in the palace and temple. Therefore, the custom of lighting lamps on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month gradually expanded in China with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and the addition of Taoist culture.

It is also said that the Lantern Festival originated from the "Torch Festival", and the people of the Han Dynasty held torches in the countryside to drive away insects and beasts, hoping to reduce the insect pest and pray for a good harvest. To this day, people in some parts of southwest China still make torches out of reeds or tree branches on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and dance in groups holding torches high in the fields or in the barnyards. Since the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, it has been even more prosperous.

Tens of thousands of people participated in the singing and dancing, from faint to obscure. With the changes of society and the times, the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival have already changed greatly, but it is still a traditional Chinese folk festival.

Don't get carried away by the festival and mistakenly think that you don't do your homework.

The Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, is the first full moon night of the year, and it is connected with the Spring Festival, which is a very grand traditional festival since ancient times. Also known as the Lantern Festival. There are customs of playing dragon lanterns, lion dances, watching lanterns, and eating rice balls.

During the Lantern Festival, you should eat glutinous rice balls, watch lanterns, and guess lantern riddles.

1. Guess the lantern riddle.

"Guessing lantern riddles", also known as "playing lantern riddles", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, which appeared in the Song Dynasty. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital Lin'an was fascinated during the Lantern Festival, and there were many people guessing riddles. In the beginning, it was the good deeds who wrote riddles on slips of paper and pasted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess.

Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and are very interesting, they are popular with all walks of life in the process of circulation.

2. Watch the lanterns. The Song Dynasty paid more attention to the Lantern Festival, and the lantern viewing activities were more lively, and the lantern viewing activities took 5 days, and the styles of the lanterns were also more abundant. In the Ming Dynasty, lanterns were enjoyed for 10 days in a row, which was the longest lantern festival in China. Although the lantern viewing activity in the Qing Dynasty is only 3 days, the lantern viewing activity is very large-scale, and the grand occasion is unprecedented.

3. Cross the bridge. The Lantern Festival in some places also has the custom of "walking a hundred diseases", also known as "roasting a hundred diseases" and "scattering a hundred diseases", the participants are mostly women, they walk together or walk by the wall, or cross the bridge, go to the suburbs, the purpose is to drive away the disease and eliminate the disaster.

History of the Lantern Festival:

1. During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sacrificed "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the first month of the first month, which was regarded by later generations as the precursor of the sacrifice to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month.

2. In the Tang Dynasty, lantern lanterns became a legal thing and gradually became a folk custom.

3. During the Song Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was called Lantern Festival.

4. In the Qing Dynasty, it was also called the Festival of Lights.

The traditional customs of the Lantern Festival in the past dynasties are to go out to admire the moon, light lamps and set off flames, like to guess lantern riddles and hunger for the elderly, eat Lantern Festival together, pull rabbit lanterns, etc. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion playing, stilt walking, rowing boats, twisting Yangge, and playing Taiping drums.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year, the Yuan Xi Festival or the Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, and is one of the traditional festivals of the Chinese people in China and the overseas Chinese. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon night of the year is called the Lantern Festival.

In ancient Chinese customs, the Shangyuan Festival (Tianguan Festival, Lantern Festival), Zhongyuan Festival (Diguan Festival, Obon Festival) and Xiayuan Festival (Shuiguan Festival) are collectively called Sanyuan. The Lantern Festival began more than 2,000 years ago in the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month be designated as the Lantern Festival.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the "Taiyi God" sacrifice was set on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Taiyi: the god who rules all the universe). When Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.