Common sense: Reflections on Lantern Festival 1. A little knowledge about the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as "Shangyuan Festival" or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. In ancient books, this day is called Shangyuan, and its night is called Yuanye, Yuanxi or Yuanxiao.

In the ancient customs of China, Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival), Zhongyuan Festival (Orchid Festival) and Xiayuan Festival (Water Joint) are collectively called Sanyuan Festival. Lantern Festival began in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth day of the first month to be designated as the Lantern Festival.

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Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, celebrating solve riddles on the lanterns, spending the Lantern Festival together and pulling rabbit lanterns. night

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Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", contains sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion. Noisy flowers

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations. On the fifteenth day of the first month, it is an annual day to set off lanterns and fireworks. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called "Lantern Festival". Solve riddles; solve lantern riddles; guess riddles on hanging lanterns

Solve riddles on the lanterns is a special activity of the Lantern Festival. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because solve riddles on the lanterns can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded. Later, solve riddles on the lanterns gradually became an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival. steal vegetables

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The so-called "stealing vegetables" means stealing vegetables from other people's gardens. According to records, on the Lantern Festival, "men and women, old and young, do not stay deeper, go out after dinner, everywhere, the situation is the same as looting." If the owner is careless, he will sweep it. "

Besides stealing vegetables, people also steal lamps-give them or steal them if they want to have children. "Book of Years Old" quoted "Materia Medica" as saying that people in the Song Dynasty believed that the lights on the fifteenth day of the first month could make people have children. If the husband and wife go to someone else's house together and steal the lamp and put it under the bed, they can get pregnant that month. In ancient times, on the night of the Lantern Festival, every household had to light a lamp. Some women are infertile after three years of marriage, and steal lights to eat in the streets. Generally, the names of Liu and Dai are stolen. "Liu" and "Dai" are homophonic, meaning "raising children" and "bringing up children", although they are superstitious.

2. The composition "Feeling of Lantern Festival" is about 150 words

Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is a traditional festival in China, and it is also a festive festival for family reunion. People set off firecrackers and eat Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival. How happy they are!

Fireworks will be set off in Xingdong Park at seven o'clock in the evening. My family had a full meal at half past six. My father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, sister and I went to Xingdong Park to watch fireworks. People came and went along the way, including city people, country people, drivers and tricycles. Our family is chatting and will arrive soon. When you arrive at Xingdong Park, you will see people coming from all directions to see fireworks and lanterns, including old people with crutches and children who can't talk. Very lively. When the time came, the salute sounded instantly and the flowers were in full bloom. Beautiful fireworks have different postures and are changeable. Some are semi-circular, some are fan-shaped, some are round, and some shapes are hard to say. Some are like small lanterns, some like waterfalls, some like sunflowers, and some like weeping willows. The most beautiful ones are like groups of cute little bees, diligently collecting honey among the flowers. It is really colorful. It's beautiful! It can really be described by a poem: "blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees comes like a spring breeze, and rises overnight".

3. Thoughts on the open class of "Yuan Yuan Tangyuan" for kindergarten teachers

Thoughts on Delicious jiaozi Activities

Activity purpose:

1. Knowing that the 15th day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, eating Yuanxiao and playing with lanterns are the folk customs of the Lantern Festival, and I have a preliminary understanding of the customs in southern Fujian.

2. Be able to make Yuanxiao and know its making process and materials.

3. Learning vocabulary: glutinous rice flour, stuffing, skin, etc.

Activity preparation:

1. Preparation of knowledge and experience: Children have experienced the Lantern Festival and know that they can swim, enjoy and eat during the Lantern Festival.

2. Material preparation: Children play with lanterns, enjoy lanterns, eat Yuanxiao and other related photos, all kinds of lanterns, and Yuanxiao with various flavors.

Activity flow:

First of all, let children know the origin and main activities of the Lantern Festival with courseware.

1. The teacher plays slides to guide the children to talk about what they are doing. (Watching and talking) Guess what festival they are having?

Teacher's summary: Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. On the Lantern Festival, we will enjoy lanterns, visit lanterns, dance dragons and lions and eat Yuanxiao. These activities have been handed down from ancient times.

3. Tell the origin of the Lantern Festival.

Second, use pictures to understand the making methods and materials of Yuanxiao Yuan.

Discuss the Lantern Festival. Has everyone eaten Yuanxiao? What is the Lantern Festival like? What is that smell?

2. Learn about all kinds of Yuanxiao dumplings, peanut dumplings, sesame dumplings, taro dumplings and so on.

3. Combine the process pictures of Bao jiaozi to guide children to know the production process and materials of jiaozi.

Learning vocabulary: glutinous rice flour, stuffing, skin, etc.

Third, taste all kinds of Yuanxiao to stimulate children's interest in activities.

1. The teacher cooks Yuanxiao.

2. Children's taste.

Tell me what the Yuanxiao that Yuan You ate tastes like.

Activity reflection:

The main purpose of this activity is to let the children have a preliminary understanding of the origin of the Lantern Festival and know some activities of the Lantern Festival, such as visiting lanterns, eating dumplings, dancing dragons and lions, etc. Master the making methods and materials of Minnan snack Yuanxiao Yuan, and stimulate children's interest in participating in activities.

During the holiday period, we consciously asked parents to take photos of their children's activities of visiting lanterns, participating in the production and eating Lantern Festival, and bring them to the kindergarten for display at the beginning of school, so that children have already experienced some activities of the Lantern Festival and laid a good foundation for our activities. The children were very excited when they looked at the photos of themselves and their companions. Ziyi said: I have a rabbit lamp. My mother and I went to the book fair park to play with it. Jia Ying said: I like to eat Yuanxiao stuffed with sesame seeds.

The teacher used various pictures of the process of wrapping jiaozi to guide children to understand the making method of Yuanxiao jiaozi, which was clear at a glance and more intuitive, avoiding blind explanation, especially in the activity of letting children taste jiaozi, which further stimulated their interest in making activities. Tasting the Lantern Festival jiaozi pushed the whole activity to a climax. The children are eating jiaozi and talking about jiaozi, all smiles,,,,

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4. Thinking about Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which began in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Lantern Festival viewing began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. He heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lanterns to worship the Buddha, so that all the gentry and ordinary people hung lanterns.

Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered the 15th day of the first month to be designated as the Lantern Festival. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month.

Taiyi: the God who rules the universe. When Sima Qian created the taichu calendar Law, he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.

Another way of saying it is that the custom of burning lanterns in Lantern Festival originated from the "ternary theory" of Taoism; The fifteenth day of the first month is Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October is Xiayuan Festival. The officials in charge of the upper, middle and lower elements are heaven, earth and man respectively. The celestial officials are happy and the Lantern Festival should be lit.

The festivals and customs of Lantern Festival have been extended and expanded with the development of history. As far as the length of festivals is concerned, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, lights were lit from the eighth day of August until the seventeenth night of the first month, a total of ten days.

Connected with the Spring Festival, it is a city during the day, full of excitement, and brightly lit at night, which is spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it a place for entertainment during the Spring Festival.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were more "hundred operas" such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, dry boating, walking on stilts and yangko dancing, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days. There are several interesting legends about the origin of the Lantern Festival: the legend about lanterns. A long time ago, there were many fierce birds and beasts that hurt people and livestock everywhere. People organized themselves to defeat them. A god bird got lost and landed on the earth, but was accidentally shot by an unsuspecting hunter.

The Emperor of Heaven was very angry when he learned that. He immediately issued a decree, ordering the heavenly soldiers to set fire to the land on the fifteenth day of the first month, burning all the people, livestock and property. The daughter of the Emperor of Heaven is kind-hearted. She couldn't bear to see the innocent suffering of the people, so she risked her life and secretly rushed Xiangyun to the world to tell people the news.

When people heard the news, it was like a blow to the head. I'm so scared that I don't know what to do. After a long time, an old man came up with an idea. He said: "On the 14th, 15th and 16th of the first month, every family decorated their houses, set off firecrackers and set off fireworks.

Then the Emperor of Heaven will think that people have been burned to death. "Everyone nodded, ready to go separately.

On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the emperor looked down and found that for three consecutive nights, the world was red and the noise was deafening. He thought it was the flame of a big fire, and soon. In this way, people saved their lives and property.

In order to commemorate this success, every household hangs lanterns and sets off fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first month to commemorate this day. Another legend is that when Emperor Wen of Han commemorated Pinglu, the Lantern Festival was set up to commemorate Pinglu.

After the death of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Lv Hou's son Liu Ying became Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty. Hui Di was born weak and indecisive, and power gradually fell into the hands of Lv Hou. After Hui Di's death, he monopolized state affairs and turned Liu's world into Lu's. The old minister of the DPRK and Liu Zongshi were deeply indignant at this, but they were afraid of cruelty and did not dare to say anything. After Lv Hou's death, Zhu Lu was afraid of being hurt and excluded.

So, in the general's home, he secretly conspired to make trouble in order to completely seize Liu's country. This story reached the ears of Liu Nang, the king of Liu. In order to protect Liu Jiangshan, Liu Nang decided to attack Zhu Lu. Later, he got in touch with founding fathers Zhou Bo and Chen Ping, and planned to get rid of Lv Lu. After the rebellion, the ministers made Liu Heng, the second son of Liu Bang, king and called him Emperor Wen. Deeply moved by the hard-won peace and prosperity, Wendy ended the "Zhu-Lu Rebellion".

Since then, the fifteenth day of the first month has become a popular folk festival-"Lantern Festival". Dong Fangshuo and the Lantern Festival Girl.

5. What is the status quo of Lantern Festival?

Present situation of Lantern Festival: The festive atmosphere is not strong, especially for young people.

First, attaching importance to traditional festivals should start with * * *

* * * should play a key role in the inheritance and protection of traditional culture. Regarding the publicity and legislation of traditional festivals in China, the legislature and the propaganda department should really take urgent measures immediately to reproduce them! All traditional festivals should be included in the national statutory holidays. For traditional festivals, it is fundamental for legislators to have awe.

Although traditional festivals are formed by history, as a kind of people's life culture, they are naturally formed. Like snowballing, they gradually evolved from simple festivals and finally formed a fixed pattern, theme and form. Its formation, in addition to the power of the people, the power of administration is also very important, and its rise and fall may be determined by the advocacy and opposition of successive dynasties. It depends on what * * * advocates and what it doesn't, what should and shouldn't be in festival culture. What role should * * * play in this process? It should be fostered, because it is conducive to enhancing the cohesion of the nation, and at the same time it is clearly stipulated in the policy that we can live like this. In addition, * * * should pay attention to protecting culture. When people celebrate this festival, it is necessary to look at the history of its formation, its development and its specific role in this nation through research, so as to find out its historical source and record every activity.

Second, tap the cultural connotation and strengthen the publicity and education of traditional culture.

In fact, traditional festivals in China contain rich humanistic spirit, which should be vigorously explored and promoted. In order to make the national cultural resources fresh and eternal, we must also find a platform to cultivate the internal driving force-enlightenment-national education at the national level and personal practice at the micro level on the basis of external secular forces. National education makes national cultural resources have a widely recognized social value scale and become an integral part of national cultural values; Personalized cultivation and family planning provide a channel for national cultural factors to sneak into people's daily lives and then "moisten things quietly". Cultural resources that can take root and sprout in the individual mind are powerful "sacred bodies" that do not sway with the passage of time.

Third, the media should systematically publicize and popularize folk culture.

The media should first attach importance to folk culture and study it well. Folk culture itself is a non-verbal thing. How to systematize non-verbal things through the media and make the introduction of folk culture into a series of systematic things is a kind of cultural accumulation. Through our media, we should quickly rescue and shoot things that are about to disappear, and carefully report and guide things that are still being passed down. These are all things that we media should do. Especially in the network era. Systematic publicity can be carried out in various forms. First, we should introduce the traditional folk culture, and then invite guests to talk about it. For those who have studied, another thing is to go to the following places to collect folk songs, understand the lives and feelings of ordinary people, and vividly publicize traditional knowledge to young people.

Fourth, young people should re-understand traditional culture and enhance their consciousness of protecting their own national traditional culture.

What we young people need to do is to re-recognize our traditional culture in various ways and enhance our consciousness of protecting national traditional culture. Some places still celebrate Chinese Valentine's Day, and some are well preserved. Our people have also preserved many things. We should not blindly abandon traditional culture. We should look back at our traditional things, especially those excellent traditional cultures. At least through traditional culture, we should know how our predecessors and ancestors thought and what kind of life they lived at each stage. This kind of society has developed into our society today, and there have been some new changes and developments.

6. Knowledge about Lantern Festival

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, just after the Spring Festival, the traditional festival Lantern Festival in China was ushered in.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called night "night", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month "Lantern Festival". The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of Spring Festival, people celebrate this festival and the continuation of the Spring Festival.

Lantern Festival is also called "Shangyuan Festival". According to the folk tradition in China, on this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate.

Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting and setting fires, solve riddles on the lanterns, spending the Lantern Festival together, family reunion and celebrating festivals are all pleasant. Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. The custom of Lantern Festival began in Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the lantern viewing activities became more prosperous. Lights are hung everywhere in palaces and streets, and tall light wheels, light buildings and light trees have been built. Lu Zeng, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, described the grand occasion of the Lantern Festival in "Watching Lights at Fifteen Nights", saying that "the stars in the Han Dynasty fell, and the balcony was like a hanging moon."

In the Song Dynasty, more attention was paid to the Lantern Festival, and lantern viewing activities became more lively. The lantern viewing activity lasted for five days, and the styles of lanterns were more abundant. In the Ming Dynasty, the Lantern Festival will last 10 days, which is the longest Lantern Festival in China.

Although there were only three days to enjoy the lanterns in the Qing Dynasty, the scale of the lantern viewing activities was unprecedented. Besides burning lanterns, fireworks are also set off for entertainment. "Lantern riddle", also known as "playing riddles", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, which appeared in the Song Dynasty.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin 'an, the capital, made riddles every Lantern Festival, and there were many people in solve riddles on the lanterns. At the beginning, it was a busybody who wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess.

Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of communication. Folk custom of eating Yuanxiao on Lantern Festival.

Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice, which can be solid or stuffed. Filled with bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, various fruit materials and so on. You can cook, fry, steam and fry when you eat.

At first, people called this kind of food "Floating Zi Yuan", and later they called it "Tangtuan" or "Tangyuan". These names are similar in pronunciation, meaning reunion, symbolizing family reunion, harmony and happiness. People also miss their departed relatives and place their best wishes on their future lives. In some places, the Lantern Festival also has the custom of "walking away from all diseases", which is also called "roasting all diseases" and "dispersing all diseases". Most of the participants are women. They walk together or against the wall, or across the bridge in the suburbs, in order to drive away diseases and eliminate disasters.

With the passage of time, there are more and more activities in the Lantern Festival, and many local festivals have added traditional folk performances such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than two thousand years, is not only popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also celebrated every year in areas where overseas Chinese live in concentrated communities.

Origin and Legend of Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which began in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Watching the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. He heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, monks watched the relics and lit lanterns to worship Buddha, so all the cremation and ordinary people hung lanterns that night. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival.

This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered the 15th day of the first month to be designated as the Lantern Festival.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month. Taiyi: the God who rules the universe.

When Sima Qian created the taichu calendar Law, he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival. Another way of saying it is that the custom of burning lanterns in Lantern Festival originated from the "ternary theory" of Taoism; The fifteenth day of the first month is Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October is Xiayuan Festival.

The officials in charge of the upper, middle and lower elements are heaven, earth and man respectively. The celestial officials are happy and the Lantern Festival should be lit. The festivals and customs of Lantern Festival have been extended and expanded with the development of history.

As far as the length of festivals is concerned, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, lights were lit from the eighth day of August until the seventeenth night of the first month, a total of ten days. Connected with the Spring Festival, it is a city during the day, full of excitement, and brightly lit at night, which is spectacular.

Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it a place for entertainment during the Spring Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, there were more "hundred operas" such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, dry boating, walking on stilts and yangko dancing, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.

Legend about Lights Legend has it that a long time ago, there were many fierce birds and animals everywhere that hurt people and animals, so people organized to beat them. A god bird was trapped and landed on the earth, but was accidentally shot by an unsuspecting hunter. The Emperor of Heaven was very angry when he learned that. He immediately issued a decree, ordering the heavenly soldiers to set fire to the land on the fifteenth day of the first month, burning all the people, livestock and property.

The daughter of the Emperor of Heaven is kind-hearted. She couldn't bear to see the innocent suffering of the people, so she risked her life and secretly rushed Xiangyun to the world to tell people the news. When people heard the news, it was like a blow to the head.

I'm so scared that I don't know what to do. After a long time, an old man came up with an idea. He said: On the 14th, 15th and 16th of the first month, every family decorated their houses, set off firecrackers and set off fireworks. Then the Emperor of Heaven will think that people have been burned to death. "

Everyone nodded and said yes, and they were ready to go separately. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the emperor looked down and found that for three consecutive nights, the world was red and the noise was deafening. He thought it was the flame of a big fire, and soon.

In this way, people saved their lives and property. In order to commemorate this success, every household hangs lanterns and sets off fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first month to commemorate this day.

Another legend is that when Emperor Wen of Han commemorated Pinglu, the Lantern Festival was set up to commemorate Pinglu. After the death of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Lv Hou's son Liu Ying became Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty.

Hui Di was born weak and indecisive, and power gradually fell into the hands of Lv Hou. After Hui Di's death, he monopolized state affairs and turned Liu's world into Lu's. The old minister of the DPRK and Liu Zongshi were deeply indignant at this, but they were afraid of cruelty and did not dare to say anything. After Lv Hou's death, Zhu Lu was afraid of being hurt and excluded. So, in the general's home, he secretly conspired to make trouble in order to completely seize Liu's country.

This matter reached the ears of Liu Nang, the king of the Liu clan, and Liu Nang was.

7. Little knowledge of Lantern Festival

Since the custom of decorating lanterns on the Lantern Festival was formed, the fifteenth day of the first month has been regarded as an important event in all previous dynasties.

Emperor Wen of Liang Jian once wrote a poem "Li Edeng Fu": "The south is full of oil, and the west is full of paint. Su Zheng is resting in peace, and wax comes out of Longchuan.

Oblique light reflection, clear reflection. "It depicts the grand occasion of the court decorating lanterns during the Lantern Festival.

During the reign of Yang Di, a grand banquet was held every year on the 15th day of the first month to entertain guests and envoys from all over the world. According to the Records of Music in Sui Shu, the Lantern Festival is very grand, with lanterns and colorful decorations everywhere, singing and dancing day and night, with more than 30,000 performers and more than 0.8 million musicians. The stage is eight miles long, and countless people are watching lanterns, staying up all night, enjoying themselves and being very lively.

In the Tang dynasty, it developed into an unprecedented lantern market, and after the middle Tang dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. In the prosperous period of the Tang Xuanzong Kaiyuan (685-762 AD), the lantern market in Chang 'an was very large, with 50,000 lanterns and all kinds of lanterns. The emperor ordered 20 giant lantern buildings with a height of 150 feet, resplendent and magnificent.

In the Tang dynasty, a curfew was imposed, and it was forbidden to travel when drums were banned at night. Those who committed crimes at night were punished. Only on the Lantern Festival did the emperor grant a three-day ban, which was called "letting the night go". In the Song Dynasty, lanterns were extended from three nights to five nights. In addition to lanterns, fireworks were set off, and various juggling performances were held, making the scene more lively.

"Tokyo Dream" records that during the Lantern Festival, on the Imperial Street in Kaifeng, 10,000 lanterns piled up into a lantern mountain, and the lanterns were fireworks, resplendent and magnificent. The girls in Kyoto are singing and dancing, and people are watching.

"Tourists gathered under the two colonnades of the Imperial Street, with unique skills, singing and dancing, tangent scales and noisy music, stretching for more than ten miles." In the streets, teahouses and restaurants, lights and candles are burning, gongs and drums are loud, firecrackers are ringing, and hundreds of miles of lights are brightly lit. In the Ming Dynasty, after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Jinling, in order to make the capital prosperous, it was stipulated that lights should be lit on the eighth day of the first month, lights should be turned off 17 days, and lanterns should be hung on every household. The lights depict all kinds of people, dances and birds. The dragon and the fish jumped up, and lanterns and fireworks shone all night ..

The date was shortened to five days and continues to this day. Solve riddles on the lanterns solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is an activity added after the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles first developed from riddles and originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

This is a literary game full of ridicule, discipline, humor and banter. Lantern riddles hung on lanterns for people to guess and shoot began in the Southern Song Dynasty.

"Old Things in Wulin: Lights" records: "People make poems with silk lanterns, laugh at them, draw characters, hide their heads and slang, and tease pedestrians." On the Lantern Festival, the imperial city stays up all night, and there are many people watching lights in spring night. Poems and riddles are written on lanterns, reflected on candles and listed on the road, which makes people guess, so they are called "riddles".

Now every Lantern Festival, playing riddles is everywhere. I hope this year is festive and safe. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of communication.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, various acrobatic skills began to appear in the lantern market. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, besides riddles and hundreds of operas, there were also opera performances.

In addition to visiting the lantern market, people in the past dynasties also had customs such as welcoming children to visit Ce Shen, crossing the bridge and touching nails to walk away from all diseases, and playing games such as Taiping Drum, Yangko, stilts, dragon dance and lion dance. Lantern Festival in traditional society is a folk festival that both urban and rural areas attach importance to. It is particularly lively in the city, which embodies the unique carnival spirit of China people.

The traditional saving function of Lantern Festival has been dispelled by daily life, and people have gradually lost their common spiritual interest. The complicated festival custom is simplified to the eating custom of "eating Yuanxiao". Playing dragon lantern, also known as dragon lantern or dragon dance.

Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor period, in a large-scale song and dance in the suburbs of Qing Dynasty, there was an image of a leading bird played by a man, and then a dance scene with six dragons interspersed with each other was arranged.

The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays. According to Sui Shu Le, Huanglongbian, which is similar to the dragon dance performance in Yang Di's hundred operas, is also very wonderful, and dragon dance is popular in many places in China.

The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols. Walking on stilts is a popular folk performance.

Stilts, originally one of the hundred plays in ancient China, appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. China first introduced stilts in Liezi Fu Shuo: "There were orchids in the Song Dynasty, and they used their own skills to dry the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

Summoned in the Song and Yuan Dynasties to see their skills. Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever the Lantern Festival or the * * * celebration, people always come to the lion dance to entertain.

This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a history of 1000 years. "Lion Dance" began in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Tang Dynasty. Also known as "lion dance" and "peace music". It is usually done by three people. Two people dressed as lions, one as the lion's head, one as the lion's body and hind feet, and one as the lion's head. Dance is divided into civilian and military. The dance shows the gentleness of the lion, shaking his hair and rolling. The military lion shows the ferocity of the lion.

Rowing a dry boat, folklore is to commemorate Dayu who has made great contributions to water control. Rowing a dry boat, also known as running a dry boat, is an imitation of a boat on land, and the performers are mostly girls.

Dry boat is not a real boat. It is made of two thin wooden boards, sawed into a boat shape, tied with bamboo and wood, covered with colored cloth and tied around the girl's waist, just like sitting on a boat, rowing with paddles in hand, singing and jumping while running. This is a dry ship. Sometimes, another man dressed as a boatman performs with his partners, mostly dressed as a clown, and amuses the audience with all kinds of funny actions.

Dry boats are very popular in many areas of China. Eating Yuanxiao as food has a long history in China.

In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao".

In ancient times, "Yuanxiao" was more expensive, and a poem said: "Guests look at the Imperial Street with a hook curtain, and the treasures in the city come for a while. There is no way to go before the curtain, and the money can't be returned. "

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month means that "glutinous rice balls" are white.