How do people spend the Lantern Festival? How is the Lantern Festival celebrated?

Eat Lantern Festival and light lanterns to watch the party, hehe

Hello, different places of the Lantern Festival may have some different customs, and you can carry out some activities according to your local customs.

1. Eat Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival is made of glutinous rice, either solid or stuffed. The north is the "rolling" Lantern Festival, and the south is "wrapping" glutinous rice balls.

2. Viewing lanterns: Viewing lanterns is a must-do thing in the Lantern Festival, in addition to lighting lanterns, you can also set off fireworks to help fun.

3. Guess the lantern riddle: "Guess the lantern riddle", also known as "playing the lantern riddle", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, which appeared in the Song Dynasty. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and are very interesting, they are popular with all walks of life in the process of circulation.

4. Playing dragon lanterns: Playing dragon lanterns, also known as dragon lanterns or dragon dances. Originated in antiquity.

5. Stepping on stilts: Stepping on stilts is a popular mass skill performance among the people.

6. Lion dance: Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China, and every Lantern Festival or rally celebration, the folk come to cheer with lion dance. This custom originated during the Three Kingdoms period and became popular during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and has a history of more than 1,000 years.

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Introduction to the Lantern Festival:

1. The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year's Month, the New Year's Eve or the Lantern Festival, is the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, the Chinese character cultural circle and 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 was called the Lantern Festival.

2. In ancient Chinese customs, the Shangyuan Festival (Tianguan Festival, Lantern Festival), Zhongyuan Festival (Diguan Festival, Bon 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.

3. Traditional customs go out to admire the moon, light lamps and set off flames, guess lantern riddles, eat Lantern Festival, 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. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, according to the general inheritance of the material and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the Western Han Dynasty has been heavily sensitive, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty on the first month of the first month of the Xin night in the Ganquan Palace to worship the "Taiyi" activities, by the descendants as the fifteenth day of the first month of the first month to sacrifice to the gods of the forerunner. However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was really a folk festival after the Han and Wei dynasties. The custom of lighting lamps on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is related to the eastward spread of Buddhism.

The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty has an important significance for the formation of the Lantern Festival customs. During the Yongping period of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, in order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth night of the first lunar month to take pictures in the palace and the temple to open the "Burning Lamp Table Buddha". 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 later addition of Taoist culture.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, lantern festivals gradually became a trend. Emperor Wu of Liang believed in Buddhism, and his palace was lit up on the fifteenth day of the first month.