What are the short introductions to the Lantern Festival?

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year, the Yuan Xi Festival or the Lantern Festival, is the first major festival after the Spring Festival and is one of the traditional festivals of the Chinese people in China and the Chinese diaspora. 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. [1][2]

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.

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.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. 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.

Formerly known as the Lantern Festival, the flower name is the Tangyuan Festival.

The contents of the Lantern Festival are as follows:1. The Lantern Festival can be said to be an authentic Chinese Valentine's Day. Due to the ban on the ancient Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival was like weaving, and men and women met and were prone to love.

For thousands of years, there have been countless love stories between the two lovers staged during the Lantern Festival.

2. At the level of material life, during the Lantern Festival, the whole family eats tangyuan together, and the words "tangyuan" and "reunion" are similar in sound, symbolizing reunion and harmony.

3. The cultural value of the Lantern Festival lies in the fact that it is a carnival for the whole people, and everyone participates in it and enjoys it.

4. The main activity of the Lantern Festival is mass entertainment, but its social and cultural significance is not only entertainment. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there are many religious activities to pray for the blessings of the gods.

5. When the Lantern Festival arrives, the festival economy is stirred up.

1. Eat Lantern Festival, look at the color, white and fat, cool and cool, don't burn your mouth, bite gently, chew slowly, taste carefully, drink soup, moisten your heart, the more you eat, the more interesting! Lantern Festival, enjoy delicious food, reunion, family photo!

2. With a few loud noises, beautiful ceremonial flowers bloomed in the air one after another, some like chrysanthemums, some like snow in June, some like stars in the sky, and some like colorful flowers.

3. Lantern Festival, pay attention: eat Lantern Festival, don't worry; glutinous rice filling, greasy texture; Aid digestion, go for a walk; Caring language, listen carefully; Bless you, always wish. Happy Yuanli Vertical Festival!

4. The Lantern Festival is full of rice balls, and the life is happy and sweet. Celebrate the festival happily, and pray for a good year with the dragon and lion dance. The lanterns are colorful, and the quiz is a lot of fun.

The sound of firecrackers shook the sky, and the ceremonial flowers were sprinkled in the world. May the family reunion be envied by everyone, auspicious and safe.

5. Now, with my truest thoughts. Let the wind carry away the wishes from all my heart, and give me the rare you in my life! May you have a happy Lantern Festival!

6. Eat glutinous rice balls on the 15th Lantern Festival of the first lunar month: you are round, I am round, and everyone is married! The full sun, the full moon, everything is round! The source of people, the source of blessings, everywhere! Official sources, financial resources, endless! Wish, wish, wish to be satisfied!

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the land trail festival walks all kinds of diseases, respects the old tradition, and has a good life, which means health and spring.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Yuan Night, and the Lantern Festival. The first month of the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, and it is also the night of the rejuvenation of the earth, which is celebrated and the continuation of the celebration of the new year.

Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar" and listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival.

Since the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, it has been even more prosperous. "Sui Shu ** Zhi" day: "Whenever the first month, all countries come to the court, stay until the 15th in the end of the gate outside the Jianguo Gate, stretching for eight miles, the opera is the theater", the participants in the singing and dancing are tens of thousands, from the stove to the dark, to the 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.

The customs of the Lantern Festival

"Lantern Festival" is the name of the northerners, and the southerners call it "Tangyuan Chunyi" and "Tangtuan". According to China's folk traditions, every year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every household has to eat rice balls. Because these names are similar to the pronunciation of "reunion", they go to the meaning of reunion, and take advantage of the night of the full moon of the fifteenth month to hope that the whole family will be reunited, harmonious and happy.

"Guess the lantern riddle", also known as "playing the lantern riddle", is a unique form of entertainment rich in national style in our country, and it is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival that has been circulated since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every household will hang up lanterns and set off fireworks. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded, and then riddles gradually became an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival.