What are the customs of the Lantern Festival
The 15th day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. On this day, Chinese people will carry out a series of traditional folk activities, such as admiring lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, setting off fireworks and lion dancing.
1 Eat glutinous rice balls
Colleagues, relatives and friends who could not get together during the Spring Festival also use the Lantern Festival as an opportunity to have a dinner together and enjoy delicious food with their families. Yuanxiao, also known as glutinous rice balls, is usually served as an indispensable dessert after dinner. As long as you eat it, it is a festival! Round yuanxiao means round and round.
2 Enjoy the moon and set off fireworks
The 15th day of the first lunar month is the night of the first full moon of the year. As long as you care about each other and make a phone call to your family, you can feel the warmth of home in other places. At the same time, set off colorful fireworks, and the moon lit up the beautiful world. Reflects the people's spiritual sustenance, looking forward to a good harvest in the coming year, wealth, family prosperity, good luck.
3 Enjoy lanterns and guess lantern riddles
On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the streets and lanes, red lights hung high, palace lanterns, animal head lights, horse lights, flower lights, bird lights and so on, there are many kinds of lanterns, all kinds of lantern production skill, a display of craftsman's wisdom and skills, attracting the masses of lamp watching.
In addition to appreciating the lanterns, guessing riddles on the lanterns is one of the most traditional Lantern Festival traditions. It is a folk word game that adds to the entertainment of the festival. Everyone can participate in it and it is the time to give full play to your wisdom.
4 The lion dance
Lion dance is an excellent Chinese folk art, every Lantern Festival or assembly celebration, people come to the lion dance to add fun. In some places, there are customs such as dragon dancing and walking on stilts.
As the saying goes, after the Lantern Festival, is really over the New Year, all walks of life began to put into normal operation, people's life to