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New Year is coming, make a Lantern Festival!
As the first full moon night of the year,
It is also a monistic restoration,
The night of the rejuvenation of the earth,
The Lantern Festival is also a continuation of the celebration of the New Year.
Ancient times
People in order to expel the fear of darkness,
So the lantern was derived
It has the meaning of praying for light.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month,
Traditional folk should hang lanterns and set off fireworks,
Hanging lanterns, riddles, flower viewing lights...
The Lantern Festival got its name from this.
"Fire tree honeysuckle, star bridge iron lock open"
It describes the grand situation of the Chang'an Lantern Festival during the Tang Dynasty.
Blessed people live in a blessed land, blessed land and blessed people live in a blessed land
Today, all over Fujian
to a rich variety of folklore
Blessed is the Lantern Festival
Traditional festivals have a "new" flavor
There are thousands of riddles for the festival
Happy Happy First
Well, together
Guess the riddle of the lantern to see Fujian, make a Lantern Festival!
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Quanzhou: Don't come to Quanzhou for the Lantern Festival, it's so much fun!
For the people of Quanzhou, the Lantern Festival is the end of the Year. Lantern Festival is the most lively festival in Quanzhou, since ancient times, Quanzhou has the custom of making Lantern Festival, making flower lanterns, viewing flower lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, rolling Lantern Circles, eating Lantern Circles, pulling out lanterns, stepping on the street, watching plays... Because of its long history, rich cultural connotation and unique regional characteristics, "Quanzhou Lantern Customs" was rated as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Quanzhou Lantern Festival, originated from the flower lantern. Quanzhou lantern customs are even more numerous, in addition to lighting lights, swimming lights, viewing lights, guessing lantern riddles... There are also lights and lamps with deep meanings. Interestingly, in the Quanzhou dialect, "lamp" and "Ding" are homophonous, and "out of the lamp" is the same as "out of Ding", which means that people are prosperous and their children and grandchildren are full of halls.
This year's Lantern Festival, many places in Quanzhou City will hold traditional lantern guessing activities, on February 15, in Zhengyin Academy, there will be a Lantern Song Party held by Quanzhou Cultural Tourism Group, specially invited Nanyin Performance Group, campus choirs, etc. to carry out Lantern Song Party to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
In order to avoid the masses gathering to admire the lights, Quanzhou changed its way, and the sightseeing battery car "Xiaobai" hung a traditional flower lamp in Quanzhou, which not only brought visual enjoyment to passengers taking "Xiaobai" and tourists passing by the route, but also added a strong atmosphere to the ancient city of the festival. After the mobile lantern exhibition is launched on the fourth day of the first lunar month, it will last until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month.
In addition to the mobile lantern exhibition, there are also fixed lantern exhibitions to see. The flower lanterns on Zhongshan Road have their own characteristics, some of which are novel in shape, and some of which use new materials, which are artistic, ornamental and innovative. The lantern area on the second floor of the Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall has a collection of many precious lanterns, and the public can come here to feast their eyes.
In addition, a series of cultural exhibitions, drama performances, intangible cultural heritage interactive experiences... Quanzhou's colorful cultural tourism activities are a lantern festival, combining online and offline, so that citizens can enjoy the "cultural tourism feast" without leaving home.
Putian: Folk Carnival Unique in China
"Soap Li" dance to eight banwei, folk parade lantern festival, "super red group" to pray for the new year... In Putian, the Lantern Festival is the highlight. The villages and villages are noisy lanterns, there are programs every day, and families are in full swing, which is a grand view and is very lively. Every year from the third day of the first lunar month to the second day of the first month of February, a whole month, can be called the longest Lantern Festival in the country, colorful folk activities show the depth and diversity of Puxian culture.
Putian has a number of folk Lantern characteristic folk customs have been included in the intangible cultural heritage protection projects. Xianyou Fengting Lantern Lantern Custom is a national intangible cultural heritage protection project. Fengting Lantern Tour Began in the Song Dynasty, there are marquee lights, guessing lights, tower lights, hexagonal lights, color basket lights and so on. Among them, there is a kind of vegetable head lamp made of white radish, which has been passed down from the Song Dynasty to the present, and is the most unique flower lamp.
Fengting Lantern Lantern brings together a variety of classical culture and folk culture contents such as bonfires, social fires, lanterns, martial arts, etc., and integrates various arts such as folk lantern art, qu art, dance, ten music and eight music, drama, acrobatics, etc., which not only constitutes the unique folklore of the thousand-year-old town, but also becomes an important cultural medium for uniting compatriots at home and abroad.
It is worth mentioning that in the Spring Festival of 2021, in order to prevent and control the epidemic and avoid crowd gathering, Putian City will innovatively move the colorful Putian Lantern Activities to the Network and carry out the "Epidemic Prevention and Control at Home, Scan Code Online to See the Lantern" activity, which not only meets the needs of the citizens' cultural and spiritual life, but also allows the local New Year's personnel to "eat, watch, and play" during the Spring Festival Lantern Festival. This year, Putian City will also continue to coordinate the prevention and control of the epidemic and innovate online Lantern Activities.
In addition, Putian City will continue to excavate and package Lantern cultural resources, play a good online and offline "combination fist", inherit and promote Putian Lantern folk culture, and strive to build a Putian Lantern cultural tourism brand, so that cultural heritage can come alive and play a new role in the new era.
East Stone Lamp Custom: Two East Stones in Fujian and Taiwan, a total of one palace lamp
There are two coastal villages on both sides of the taiwan strait with the same name dongshi, one in Jinjiang, Fujian, and one in Chiayi, Taiwan. The two places share a unique Lantern Lantern Custom in the country - "Two Eastern Stones in Fujian and Taiwan, a total of one palace lamp".
The Lantern Activity of the Eastern Stone Palace begins on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, for a period of three days, the newly married grooms of the two Eastern Stones of Fujian and Taiwan in the previous year will hang the palace lamp of the bride's dowry to the Sangong Palace, and at midnight of the Lantern Festival, all the grooms and officials gather in the Sangong Palace.
A public big red hydrangea lamp was hung in the middle, and the relatives of the Dongshi Clan reported the number of palace lights in Taiwan and the local area that year, and celebrated the prosperity of people on both sides of the strait. After that, the highlight of the palace lamp activity was "Bu Lantern", that is, the groom official threw the cup in front of the "Three Grandfathers", and the person who threw the most cups could win the hydrangea lamp home and hang it, symbolizing the prosperity and great luck of the people.
"A hundred years of palace lights a hundred years of light, palace lights detailed complaints about the strait situation." In 2008, "Fujian Taidong Stone Lantern Customs" was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, and soon became a new brand of cross-strait cultural exchanges, witnessing the cohesion of the Chinese nation on both sides of the strait.
Mawei-Matsu: "Two horses in the same spring lantern festival!" ”
The 16th "Two Horses and Spring Lantern Festival" activity was held in Fuzhou Dongjiangbin Park. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Shanchuan
In Mawei and Matsu, located on both sides of the estuary of the Minjiang River, fishermen will spontaneously paste the head lamp of the sea god and hold torches to accompany them all night around the Lantern Festival.
Every year on the night of the Lantern Festival, The places of Mawei and Matsu are brightly lit and crowded. In particular, the colorful lanterns juxtaposed by the "two horses" are exquisitely made, which has the meaning of praying for peace and prosperity, and also fully embodies the good wishes of the people on both sides of the strait for unity and reunification.
As the first folk activity jointly declared by the two sides of the strait and approved to be included in the national intangible cultural heritage list, "Two Horses and One Spring Lantern Festival" has become an important carrier of exchanges and cultural brands between Fuzhou and Taiwan.
This year, the 20th "Two Horses and Spring Festival Lantern Festival" has officially kicked off on January 31 (Chinese New Year's Eve night), and the lighting time will last until February 16 (the sixteenth day of the first lunar month).
In line with the principle of green environmental protection, thrift and thrift, to create an atmosphere, this year's light group will be reusable in the past part of the light group through artistic reprocessing, re-presented to the public and tourists with a new look, in the focus on the interactive use of lights while taking into account the long-term use, some of the light groups using fiberglass, acrylic and other materials to make, after the end of the light exhibition, these easy to preserve the light group will be fixed in the park to do daily landscape lights use.
It is worth mentioning that this year, for the first time, a group of lights will be selected from the "Two Horses and The Spring Lantern Festival" and will be used as a miniature version of about 1 meter as a collection.
And these places, the Lantern is beautiful and fun!
Fuzhou: Staggered peak viewing is more fun
Fuzhou Cangshan Lantern Will adopt a scattered distribution method, arrange special light groups at the green belt of the main road, and create a light show in Yantai Mountain. This year, Taijiang District set up theme light groups such as "Vibrant Shangdu Binjiang Fudi", "Time Hangxing Fujian Merchant Fudi", "A Blueprint To Draw to the End, Really Grasp the New Chapter of Hard Work", "Landscape and Water Luck, Charm of Jiangbin", and combine the "two festivals" streetscape arrangement with the Lantern Lantern Festival to create a strong festive atmosphere.
Xiamen: Fujian and Taiwan have a strong cultural charm
The 2022 Cross-Strait Lantern Festival - Fantawild New Year Night Lantern Viewing Activity has been launched on January 22. This lantern festival combined the cultural characteristics of both sides of the strait and the characteristics of the New Year, and exhibited a total of 23 groups of large-scale lanterns. This year's lantern fair will also introduce the "Fu culture" element into the lantern fair, and the large and small "Fu" in the park will also add bright colors to the event.
Zhangzhou: The light exhibition is full of light
2022 Zhangzhou Spring Festival, Lantern Festival has been officially lit on January 28, the light exhibition around the theme of "Fumei Zhangzhou", fully excavate Zhangzhou's political, economic, cultural and other local characteristics of the elements, with the help of a large number of light and shadow changes vividly show Zhangzhou's rich products, the people rich, ecological beauty of the harmonious social scene. At the same time, the light exhibition also focuses on strengthening the creation of a cultural atmosphere of "Fu" and "Tiger" during the Spring Festival, and integrates cultural elements such as "FuXing Gaozhao", "Blessing China" and "Fuhu".
The strings are boiling over this night, and the flower lanterns are going round for ten miles
Finally, guess a set of riddles.
That's right, the mystery is linked into one sentence
It is:
Fujian people wish everyone a happy Lantern Festival!
Resources
[1] "Wonderful Cultural Tourism Activities Non-stop, Colorful Lantern Festival" Quanzhou Network
[2] "Putian, Fujian: Colorful Folk Celebration Lantern Festival, Traditional Festivals Live a "New" Taste" Putian Civilization Network
[3] "Two Horses and Spring Lantern Festival" Lantern Festival will soon be lit in Fuzhou Mawei, China News Network
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