Welcome Lantern Festival with Family
Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little First Moon, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.
The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" as "xiao". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in the year. According to Taoism "Sanyuan", the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". The Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times.
The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on the lights and praying for blessings. According to general materials and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been taken seriously in the Western Han Dynasty, but the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was truly regarded as a national folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties. The rise of the custom of lighting lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also related to the spread of Buddhism to the east. Buddhism flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and officials and people generally "lit lanterns to worship Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and Buddhist lights spread throughout the people. statutory matter.
Guessing lantern riddles is one of the most popular activities during the Lantern Festival. Guessing lantern riddles, also known as lantern riddles, is a unique form of traditional folk entertainment in China with a rich ethnic style. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, traditional folk will hang up colorful lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some good people write riddles on paper and paste them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can inspire wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so many people responded, and then riddles gradually became an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival. The lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere, showing the ingenuity of the ancient working people and their yearning for a better life.
The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. In addition to guessing lantern riddles, there are also a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals have also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walking, dry boat rowing, Yangko twisting, and Taiping drums. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.