In Lijiang, the fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, which is also a lollipop club, and you have to buy lollipops to eat tangyuan. So small partners in other regions, in addition to eating the Lantern, what are the arrangements for the fifteenth day of the first month? Let's take a look.
【Beijing】
The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. From the thirteenth day of the first lunar month to the seventeenth day of the first month, the people of Beijing have to entertain for five days and nights. During the Lantern Festival in old Beijing, the most important activity was to enjoy the lanterns. In the Ming Dynasty, Beijing's lamp market was in Dongcheng Dengshikou, on the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets were lined with markets, up to jewelry and jade, down to daily necessities, all available, each shop hung silk yarn, burnt beads, bright horn, wheat straw, grass made of various kinds of flower lanterns, for people to watch. In the Qing Dynasty, the lamp market spread throughout the city of Beijing.
【Hebei Province】
During the Lantern Festival in Yongping Province, sick women gathered under the kiln and called "pottery moxibustion". Sons and daughters stagger the bridge, called "Du Bai'er". There are also people who cut paper into nine paper ropes and tie knots with their hands to blame, called "knotted sheep intestines".
【Anhui Province】
In the past few days near the Lantern Festival, in the street communities and rural fields of Shangyao Town, Datong District, Huainan City, various folk art performances have been performed one after another. Colorful performances such as twisting flower drum lights, dragon lanterns, lion rolling hydrangeas, stilts, lifting pavilions, flower sticks, flower lanterns, umbrella lights, dry boats, and dugan bridges not only push the atmosphere of the New Year to a climax, but also let the old and young masters of the eight townships appreciate the unique HuaiHe customs and culture. On both sides of the Huai River, there used to be a saying that "the fifteenth day of the first month is like a year". From the first day of the new year to the third day of the new year, people are busy saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, visiting relatives and friends, and can't care about eating or playing, and the Lantern Festival is the most flavorful moment of the year.
【Shanxi Province】
The fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Lunar Calendar is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival. The Lantern Festival is the oldest night festival in China. According to legend, the Western Han Dynasty pacified the "Zhulu", and emperor Wen of Han opened the foundation on the fifteenth day of the first month, which was designated as the Lantern Festival. The whole country is illuminated and celebrated. Deep palace royal family, everyone can also go to the street to watch the lights play.
【Shandong Province】
The Lantern Festival in Zichuan District, Zibo City, puts more river lights on the waterfront. The Lantern of Ningyang County, Tai'an City, sent lanterns to the ancestral tomb. The Lantern Festival in Boxing County, Binzhou City, has the custom of illuminating the lamp. The boy carries the lamp, circles the jujube tree six times, and recites "DuLao, blossom and knot the jujube" six times, and the jujube tree can be harvested.
【Henan Province】
Xiangcheng County Lantern eat wonton soup, called "reunion tea", the mother's family to receive married daughters home for the festival, the county Lantern festival, the old and young sick, are fire moxibustion stone turtle. If there is a river bridge in the local area, the phase rate crosses the bridge. If there is no bridge, a "sky bridge" with a wooden plank several meters high is called "walking a hundred diseases".
【Jiangsu Province】
On the first day of the Wujin District, the torch of reeds was tied into a torch and inserted in the field, called "Zhaotian Cai", which was used to predict the early scrubbing. Fire is white for water, red is drought. On the first day of Yixing, children wear ghost masks, bend their feet and jump on their shoulders, calling them "jumping ghosts".
【Taiwan Province】
In Taiwan, there are also unmarried women in the Lantern Night to steal onions or vegetables will marry a good husband's traditional customs, commonly known as: "stealing shallots, marrying a good widow", "stealing vegetables, marrying a good son-in-law", girls who hope to have a happy marriage, to steal onions or greens in the vegetable garden on the night of the Lantern Festival, looking forward to the happiness of the future family, the Tang Dynasty's lantern market also appeared music and dance performances, thousands of palace women, folk girls in the lights to download songs and dances, called songs, songs.
Program, new media production: Zhu Fen
Editor: Li Xia, Zhao Wenli
Final Judgement: Ma Xiang and the Red Army