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Lantern Festival customs, Chinese folk customs, vary from place to place across the country. Among them, eating glutinous rice balls, appreciating flower lanterns, dragon dancing, lion dancing, etc. are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, so it is celebrated all over the country. The customs in most regions are the same, but each region also has its own characteristics. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in the year was called the Lantern Festival.
Chinese Lantern Festival customs
Eat Yuanxiao
It is a long-standing custom in China to eat the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Lantern Festival is called "Tangyuan". Its ingredients and flavors are different, but the meaning of eating the Lantern Festival is the same. It represents reunion, harmony and beauty, and the days are getting more prosperous. As the saying goes, harmony makes money. Family harmony and family reunion are important factors for a complete family. Therefore, you must eat "Lantern" with your family on the Lantern Festival.
Dragon lantern dancing
The dragon is the totem of China. The Chinese nation advocates the dragon as a symbol of good luck. Dragon lanterns dance on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the happy atmosphere of singing and dancing spreads in many places.
Lion dance
Lion dance, also known as "lion dance", "lion lamp" and "lion dance", is mostly performed in New Year's Day and festive activities. In the eyes of the Chinese people, lions are auspicious animals, symbolizing good luck. Therefore, in the lion dance activities, the good will of the people to eliminate disasters and disasters, and to seek for good fortune.
Guess lantern riddles
Every Lantern Festival, riddles are played everywhere, hoping to be happy and safe this year. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and are interesting, they are popular among all social strata in the process of spreading. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, various kinds of acrobatics began to appear in the lamp market. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to the lantern riddles and the hundred opera songs and dances, the lantern market also added the content of opera performances.