Auther：2023-02-07
The Lantern Festival, also known as Shang Yuan Festival, Xiao Zheng Yue, Yuan Xi or Lantern Festival, takes place on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, the Lantern Festival customs have a long process of formation, rooted in the ancient folk custom of opening the lights to pray for good fortune. The opening of the lights for blessing usually begins on the 14th night of the first month test lights, the 15th night for the lights, folk point lamps, also known as send lamps and lanterns, in order to pray to the gods activities. The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals. There are a series of traditional folklore activities such as viewing lanterns, eating dumplings, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks.
The Lantern Festival has been around for a long time in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food was popular among the people to eat on the Lantern Festival. This food was first called floating yuanzi and later yuanxiao, and business people also called it yuanbao. It is filled with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, date paste, etc. and wrapped in a circle with glutinous rice flour, which can be meat or vegetarian with different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion and happiness. The soup dumplings in Shaanxi are not wrapped but rolled in glutinous rice flour, either boiled or fried, and are hot and full.
The lantern is a traditional festival custom 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 style of lanterns prevailed in successive generations, and passed on to future generations. The 15th day of the first month, and is the culmination of the annual lanterns and fireworks. So also called the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival in the county level in Shanxi city outline and even township, town, these residents concentrated, busy and lively area, before the arrival of the 15th of the first month, full of lanterns hanging in the streets, everywhere flowers, lights swaying, to the 15th of the first month in the evening to reach the climax.
On the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, traditional folk hang up colored lanterns and set off fireworks, and then some good people write riddles on strips of paper and paste them on the colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten the wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded to them, and then riddle-guessing gradually became an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere and show the ingenuity of ancient working people and their aspiration for a better life.
