Strings and strings boil this night,
The flower lantern is ten miles away.
Today is the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month
This is also called the traditional festival of Shangyuan Festival and Spring Lantern Festival,
Pinning on Chinese's desire for reunion and happiness.
Usually the Lantern Festival is the first full moon day of the Lunar New Year,
However, this year's Lantern Festival will encounter a round of "moon without a full moon",
The Lantern Moon of the Year of the Tiger is not "fifteen rounds",
Nor is it "sixteen circles",
It's "seventeen circles",
The roundest hour will occur at 00:56 on February 17.
What is the origin of the Lantern Festival?
What are the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival?
What are these verses about the Lantern Festival?
Let's take the kids and learn together.
1. The origin of the Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China,
As early as 2,000 years ago, the Qin Dynasty existed.
Lantern Festival
Originally meant "the night of the Shangyuan Festival",
Because of the fifteenth day of the first month of the "Shangyuan Festival" the main activities are
Eat tangyuan in the evening to enjoy the moon,
Later, the name of the festival evolved into "Lantern Festival".
Compared with other festivals, the Lantern Festival,
More prominent theme of universal celebration.
As the final climax of the Spring Festival,
The Lantern Festival emphasizes the participation of the whole people,
What is shown is one
"Fire tree honeysuckle, star bridge iron lock open"
A lively scene.
2. Customs of the Lantern Festival
Eat the Lantern
Eating the Lantern On the fifteenth day of the first month is a long-standing custom in China. Lantern is "Tangyuan", its ingredients have different flavors, but eating the Lantern represents the same meaning: it represents reunion and harmony, and the days become more and more prosperous.
Guess the riddle
"Guessing the Riddle", also known as "Riddle of the Lantern", is a Lantern Festival activity added after the Southern Song Dynasty. The riddle was first developed from riddles, and the riddles hung over the lamp for people to guess, beginning in the Southern Song Dynasty. Because riddles inspire wisdom and interest, they are popular with all walks of life.
Decorations
Since the formation of the Lantern Festival, the fifteen lanterns of the first month have been a major event for thousands of years. On this night, countless people played the lantern viewing. Everyone stayed up all night, enjoying the fun, and the excitement was very lively.
Play with dragon lights
Dragon Lantern, also known as Dragon Dance Lantern or Dragon Dance. Its origins can be traced back to antiquity. Legend has it that as early as the Time of the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance called "Qingjiao", the image of the dragon head bird body played by a person appeared, and then six dragons interspersed with each other's dance scenes were choreographed.
Lion Dance
The "Lion Dance", also known as the "Lion Dance" and "Taiping Music", is generally completed by three people: one person acts as the lion's head, one person acts as the lion's body and hind feet, and one person acts as a lion usher. There is also a distinction between culture and martial arts in the dance method, the literary dance shows the gentleness of the lion, there are movements such as shaking hair, rolling and so on; the martial lion shows the ferocity of the lion, there are leaps, high, rolling color balls and other actions.
Stilts
Stilt walking is a popular mass performance of skills in the folk. Stilts are one of the hundred plays of ancient China, which have appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.
Go a hundred sick
Walking a hundred diseases is a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing dynasties, also known as traveling hundred diseases, scattering hundred diseases, roasting hundred diseases, walking bridges, etc., which is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for health. On the night of the Lantern Festival, women meet to travel, travel together, see the bridge must be crossed, think that this can get rid of the disease and prolong the life.
3. Poetry of the Lantern Festival
New Year's 15th Night
Su taste
The fire tree and silver blossoms, the star bridge iron lock open.
Dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one.
The wandering tricks are all plums, and the songs are all plums.
Kingo couldn't help but be at night, and the jade leaked uncontrollably.
Fifteen nights to watch the lights
Lu Zhaolin
Jinli opened a feast, Lan Wanyan's early years.
The colors are far apart, and the light is far away.
The stars of Han doubt fell, and the building seemed to hang like a moon.
Don't have a thousand golden smiles, come to reflect the front of the nine branches.
Birth Chazi New Year's Eve
Ouyang Xiu
On New Year's Eve last year, the flower market was lit up like day.
The moon is on the willow tip, and the person is about after dusk.
On New Year's Eve this year, the moon and lights are still there.
Not seeing last year's people, tears wet spring shirt sleeves.
Watch the lights go by
Li Shangyin
Moonlight Lantern Mountain Mandidu,
Xiangche Bao Gai Pass.
Idle and not to see the prosperity of the middle,
Shame on the villager Sai Zigu.
Magnolia Order
Su shi
The Lantern seems to be a good swim. Moreover, there are few lawsuits in the public court.
Wanjia tour to enjoy the Spring Terrace, ten miles of gods and immortals lost to the island.
The plains are not like Gao Yang's pride. Promote Xi Grace to smile.
The guests in the sitting are drunk and affectionate, and they do not hesitate to get drunk at the jade mountain.
On the first night
Cui liquid
Jade leak copper pot and mo urge, iron off the golden lock open all night,
Whoever sees the moon can sit idly, where the lights do not look.
4. Lantern Festival lantern riddle mini-game
There was a little girl dressed in yellow.
Whoever was going to bully her, she would take a stab.
(Hit an insect)
bee
The feet are like thin cow's feet, and the body is heavy like a big dog.
After the elephant gives birth to a son, he must be like the old man.
(Hit an animal)
sheep
Two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight-nine
(play an idiom)
Lack of food and clothing
A finch, flying to the table,
Pinch your tail and jump off the river.
(Uchiichi Daily Necessities)
spoon
A thin mouth that can gnaw hard bones.
Eat meat without drinking soup, eat melon without chewing beans.
kitchen knife
Dear parents
Guess the mystery ~
Don't go to the children yet
The beautiful scenery of the good day is more ambitious, and the full moon shows Kyushu.
China Education News wishes everyone a happy Lantern Festival
The source of the article | synthesized from the People's Daily, CCTV Quick Look, etc
The image source | People's Daily WeChat public account
Illustration design | Fan Wei
Responsible editor| Wang Jiashi