01 Joy Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, small first month, Yuan Xi or Lantern Festival, the time is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on lanterns to pray for good luck.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" as "night", the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so called the fifteenth day of the first month as "Lantern Festival".

According to the Taoist "three yuan", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been dominated by the custom of warm and festive lantern viewing.

02 Lantern Festival

China has a vast territory and a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, among which eating yuanxiao, watching lanterns, dragon dance, lion dance and so on are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

Eat yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month

Yuanxiao is eaten on the fifteenth day of the first month, and "yuanxiao" as a food has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, it was popular among the people to eat a novel food lactose round seed in the Lantern Festival. This kind of food, first called "floating yuanzi" after called "Yuanxiao", businessmen also beautiful name "ingots".

The fifteenth day of the first month ? lanterns

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lights prevailed in the past dynasties and was passed down to later generations. On the fifteenth day of the first month, it is the climax of the annual fireworks and lanterns.

The fifteenth day of the first month, guess lantern riddles

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the traditional folk have to hang lanterns and set off fireworks, and then there are perpetrators who write riddles on pieces of paper and stick them on colorful lights for people to guess. Because riddles can inspire wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so many people respond, and then riddles gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival.