The Lantern Festival, also known as shangyuan festival, small new moon, new year's eve or lantern festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" as "supper", the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called "Lantern Festival".
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Eat the Lantern
The Lantern Festival quietly came to us. 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. Ten thousand lights, good luck with you hand in hand, happiness will always be with you, fifteen reunions, Lantern Festival, the source of happiness is inexhaustible, the list of success is waiting for you to reveal.
Guess the riddle
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, many places hang lanterns, and some people write some riddles on paper and paste them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can both inspire wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, guessing puzzles have gradually become an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival.
Today coincides with this reunion day, LNNUers let go of all their worries together, and Rong Rong together to guess the riddle of the lamp.
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1. Blind knife to cut the mess
(play an idiom)
Click to see the puzzle
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2. Candied yellow lian
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Suffering together
3. Play Go in secret
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Not divided
4. Cactus
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5. Dress up and look good
(Play a holiday name)
Lantern Festival
Send flower lights
Sending flower lanterns is referred to as "sending lights", and its essence is to send children's lamps. That is, before the Lantern Festival, the mother's family sends flower lanterns to the newly married daughter's family, or generally relatives and friends to the newlywed infertile family, in order to add Ding auspicious signs, because "lamp" and "Ding" are harmonious. He expressed the hope that his daughter would be blessed with a high star after marriage and give birth to a son early. If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the big palace lamp, one or two pairs of small lanterns should be sent to wish the daughter a safe pregnancy.
Go a hundred sick
"Walking a hundred diseases", also known as swimming a hundred diseases, scattering a hundred diseases, baking a hundred diseases, walking bridges, etc., is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for health. On the night of the Lantern Festival, women travel together, walk together, see the bridge must be crossed, and think that this can get rid of the disease and prolong the year.
Image source: Liu Xueshan, Faculty of Letters
Play with dragon lights
The dragon is the totem of China, and the Chinese nation admires the dragon and regards the dragon as a symbol of auspiciousness. The dragon lantern dance on the fifteenth day of the first month, the joyful atmosphere of singing and dancing, spread in many places.
Image source: CCTV News
Dancing lions
Lion dances, also known as "lion dances", "lion lanterns", "lion dances", are mostly performed in New Year's festivals and festive activities. The lion is a beast in the minds of Chinese, symbolizing auspiciousness and good wishes, so that in the lion dance activities, it is the people's good will to eliminate disasters and eliminate harm and seek Genet blessings.
Image source: Xinhua News Agency
The end of the world celebrates the Lantern Festival, and the blessings slowly rise in the waves.
The moon is round and round, and the friendship of gathering warms the heart,
The lantern is red and bright, and the joy of the family is sweeter than honey,
And hang your care on the treetops, but ask for your well-being,
The Lantern Festival has arrived, and I wish the LNNUers a happy reunion!
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