The Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, New Year's Eve, and Shangyuan Festival, is iconic on the night of the first full moon of the year. People welcome the arrival of the Lantern Festival in various ways, such as "putting off the sky lanterns", "dragon and lion dances", "guessing the riddles", "eating the lantern", "stepping on stilts" and other folk activities. Through a group of posters, you will be immersed in the scene, feel the lively atmosphere of compatriots on both sides of the Straits, and everyone will play the Lantern Festival together.
The so-called "sky lantern" is actually the Kong Ming lantern, which is said to have been invented by Zhuge Liang for signaling. Some people also say that the shape of the "sky lantern" is very similar to kong Ming's hat in the portrait, so it got this name. In recent years, during the Lantern Festival, the activities of "sky lanterns" in Taipei have become more and more exciting every year. And the sky lanterns floated in the air, emitting colorful colors, and the scene was very spectacular. As the activity becomes more and more lively, people make the "sky lantern" bigger and bigger, the colorful lamp is not only painted with a variety of beautiful patterns, but also often written with the name of the person who puts the lamp, in Taiwan, there is a saying that "the higher it is placed, the more prosperous the cause is".
Eat the Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the "Lantern" as a food has a long history in the mainland. In the Song Dynasty, folk were popular for a novelty food eaten during the Lantern Festival. This kind of food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" after the "Lantern", the businessman also called it "Yuanbao". Lantern is the "tangyuan" with sugar, roses, sesame seeds, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, date paste, etc. as the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, can be meat and vegetarian, different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which has the meaning of reunion and happiness.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the "Lantern Festival", this festival has customs such as hanging lights, playing lights, watching lights, etc., so it is also called the Lantern Festival. Flower lanterns are the traditional festival customs of the Lantern Festival, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lighting prevailed throughout the ages and was passed down to future generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual fireworks, so the Lantern Festival is also called the "Lantern Festival".
Guessing lantern riddles, also known as lantern riddles, is a traditional folk cultural and entertainment activity unique to China with rich national style, and it is a lantern festival special activity that has been circulating since ancient times. Every fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the traditional folk hang lanterns and set off fireworks, and later some people write riddles on a note and paste them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can inspire wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, there are many people who respond, and then guessing puzzles gradually become an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival.
Dragon Lantern, also known as Dragon Dance or Dragon Lantern Dance. Its origins can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Time of the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance of "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. The dragon dance seen in the written record is Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu" of the Han Dynasty, and the author vividly depicts the dragon dance in the exposition of hundreds of plays.
Stilt walking is a popular mass performance of skills in the folk. Stilts are one of the hundred plays in ancient China, which have appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in China is the "Liezi Shuofu" chapter: Song has Lanzi, with skills to dry Song and Yuan. Song Yuan summoned and made him see his skills.
Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China, and every Lantern Festival or gathering celebration, the folk use lion dance to help entertain. "Lion dance" began in Wei and Jin, flourished in the Tang, also known as "lion dance", "Taiping Music", the dance method also has the distinction of literature and martial arts, the literary dance shows the gentleness of the lion, there are shaking hair, rolling and other actions, the martial lion shows the ferocity of the lion, there are leaps, pedaling, rolling balls and other actions.
Source: Bright Pictures