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One of Chinese traditional festival--Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little New Year's Day, New Year's Eve or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional Chinese festivals. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" as "xiao". The fifteenth of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth of the first lunar month is called the "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan", the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". The custom of Lantern Festival has been dominated by the custom of warm and festive lantern viewing since ancient times.
What will we do today?
Eating dumpling
Yuanxiao is eaten on the 15th day of the first lunar month. "Yuanxiao" has been used as food for a long time in our country. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival became popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". The Lantern Festival is the "tangyuan" filled with sugar, roses, sesame, red bean paste, cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube puree, etc., wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be meat or vegetable, and has different flavors. It can be cooked in soup, deep-fried, and steamed, which means a happy reunion. The glutinous rice balls in Shaanxi are not packaged, but are "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, boiled or deep-fried, and heated up and round.
2.Playing flower lantern
Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom of Lantern Festival, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and prospered in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the wind of lights prevailed and passed on to later generations. The fifteenth of the first lunar month is the climax of the annual fireworks and lanterns.
3.Guessing riddle
Guessing lantern riddles, also known as lantern riddles, is a unique form of traditional folk cultural and entertainment activities with rich ethnic style in China. It is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival that has been spread since ancient times. On the fifteenth of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, traditional folk have to hang up colored lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some people write riddles on papers and paste them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so many people responded, and then riddles gradually became an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere, showing the wisdom of the ancient working people and their yearning for a better life.
Chinese people will stay with their family and celebrate the festival today,hope everyone can be happiness and have a colourful life.
