Lantern Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival is known as the three traditional festivals of Chinese folk, has a history of more than 2,000 years, the ancients called the first month as "Yuan Yue", and the night as "Supper", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the year, and it is also the night of the beginning of the yuan and the rejuvenation of the earth, symbolizing the arrival of spring, so people celebrate it with dragon and lion dances, flower lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, etc., and it is also a continuation of celebrating the New Year.
Eating lanterns, lion dances, flower lanterns, and guessing lantern riddles are all important items of the Lantern Festival, among which, the lantern riddle, as a kind of anagram, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people in ancient China, and has been loved by people since ancient times. The riddle, as it literally appears, is a riddle written on a lantern. Every Lantern Festival, people will tie the riddle to the colorful flower lanterns for people to guess. The custom of guessing lantern riddles can be described as a long history, the Three Kingdoms period was popular in folk guessing, the Song Dynasty began to appear guessing lantern riddles, and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, guessing lantern riddles has become an important folk custom. Until now, guessing lantern riddles are still very popular in the folk.
On the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month, FM 93.9 Jilin Radio and Television Station Traffic Radio and Television Station and Jilin Confucian Temple jointly launched the "Guess the Lantern Riddle on the 15th day of the First Month, Rejoice and Celebrate the Lantern Festival" online lantern riddle activity. At that time, 15:00-16:00 "Jilin Baishitong" program will invite Wang Zhansheng, director of the Research and Protection Department of Jilin Confucian Temple Museum, and Mou Yanfen, vice president of the Yanzha Mystery Club of Jilin Confucius Society, to be a guest in the live broadcast room, guess the riddle with the audience and friends, celebrate the Lantern Festival, and the majority of listeners and friends can listen to and participate at that time.
Source: Jilin Rime Terrace
Editor-in-Charge: Ah Ling
Review: Liu Fengkai
Producer: Hu Zhe
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