Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Spring Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "supper", so the fifteenth day of the first month was called the "Lantern Festival". The Lantern Festival, as early as 2,000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, during the time of Emperor Wen of Han, had ordered that the fifteenth day of the first month be designated as the Lantern Festival. With the changes of society and the times, the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival have not changed. The more common ones are guessing riddles and eating tangyuan. There is also a flower viewing lantern with a long history, where the Hakka people gather, as long as each family adds a new population, it will "raise the lamp" on the fifteenth day of the first month to celebrate together.
The Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival. Because unmarried girls in ancient times usually stayed at home, only on the day of the Lantern Festival can they be allowed to go out together to see the lights and play, and many amorous men and women will take advantage of this special day to find their sweethearts and spark love. The Lantern Festival has created countless good relationships and beautiful families on this day, so the Lantern Festival is also known as China's Valentine's Day.
The Huizhou folk activities before and after the Lantern Festival are overwhelming. The fourteenth day of the first month is the day of the dance of grass dragons in Shangwei Village and Xiawei Village in Ruhu Town, Huicheng District, in order to pray for disaster relief and good health. Huidong Jilong Lantern Custom is a dragon dance, village dragon dance, please dragon god, kaiguang, dragon dance, dragon dance, wear dragon frame, dragon and other fixed procedures one link after another, stringing the beautiful meaning of "drilling the dragon body" and "pulling the dragon's whiskers", praying for the wind and rain to be smooth, Guotai Min'an.
In the ancient city of Pinghai in Huidong, the "potting" activity was held on the second day of the Lantern Festival, and every household in the northwest village of the ancient city used flowers, crops, etc. as raw materials to make a variety of scenery, animals, etc., and placed them for people to visit. In addition, the villagers' "pendulum" also pays a lot of attention, and all the young men who want to get married or have children in that year must come to participate in the preparation of the "pendulum", which is quite lively.