Lantern Night
The streets and alleys of Rizhao are illuminated
You see
The light of the streets of Rizhao is full of creativity!
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On this day, people admire the lanterns, guess the riddles, and eat the Lantern Festival
So what are the customs of the Lantern Festival?
For this wonderful traditional festival
How much do you know?
Lantern Festival Is one of the traditional festivals in China
Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Small New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve or Lantern Festival
The time is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar every year
The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar
The ancients called "night" "supper"
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year
Therefore, the fifteenth day of the first month is called the "Lantern Festival"
Lantern Festival customs
The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing flower lanterns, eating tangyuan, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals have also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walking, rowing dry boats, twisting rice songs, and playing Taiping drums. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Look at the flower lanterns
Flower lights
Since ancient times, the lantern festival customs have been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing customs
"The east wind blooms a thousand trees at night, more blowing down, the stars are like rain"
The poet Xin Shuyi wrote that the Lantern Festival of the Song Dynasty had countless lanterns
Fireworks are like a rain of stars
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. And the fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual fireworks. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called the "Festival of Lights".
guess
Riddles
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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. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the traditional folk hang lanterns and set off fireworks, and later some good deeds write riddles on paper and paste them on colorful lanterns for people to guess.
eat
Lantern Festival
Eat the Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the "Lantern" as a food has a long history in the mainland. The earliest was called "Floating Yuanzi" after the "Lantern", and the businessman also called it "Yuanbao".
The Lantern is "Tangyuan" filled with sugar, sesame seeds, bean paste, walnut kernels, nuts, date paste, etc., wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, which can be meat and vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which has the meaning of reunion and happiness.
Tangyuan VS Lantern
I believe that everyone has always had a problem to this day
Are tangyuan and lantern a kind?
What's the difference?
Please read on
In fact, except for the difference in the name of the north and south
They are also made in different ways
What's your favorite filling?
Besides
Carrying out entertainment activities is an important part of the Lantern Festival
There are also various forms
Lion Dance, Dragon Lantern Dance, Stilt Dance
Dry boats, flower sticks, rice songs, donkeys, etc. are all available
What other Lantern Festival customs do you know?
Let us know in the comments section!
All-media reporter Chen Yuyu Xin Yu