When is the Lantern Festival in 2022?
2022 The festival time of the New Year’s Lantern Festival is on February 15 of the Gregorian calendar, which is the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, Tuesday.This is a very ancient traditional festival in China, which attracts people’s attention.Whenever the festival comes, it is celebrated with great enthusiasm, such as holding lantern festivals and twisting yangko songs.
Introduction to the Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little First Moon, the Lantern Festival or the Lantern Festival.The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks.In addition, many local Lantern Festivals have also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walking, dry boat rowing, Yangko twisting, and Taiping drums.In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Origin of the Lantern Festival
The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on the lights and praying for blessings.According to general information and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month has been taken seriously in the Western Han Dynasty, but the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month was really regarded as a national folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties.The rise of the custom of lighting lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also related to the spread of Buddhism to the east.Buddhism flourished in the Tang Dynasty.Officials and people generally "lit lamps to worship Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.Buddhist lights spread throughout the people.statutory matter.
The time of the Lantern Festival in 2022
The gods worshipped by Wudoumi Dao, an important sect of Taoism at the end of the Han Dynasty, are the gods of heaven, earth and water., Shuiguan solved the misfortune, and used three elements to match three officials, saying that the Shangyuan Tianguan was born on the fifteenth day of the first month, the Zhongyuan Earth official was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and the Lower Yuan water official was born on the fifteenth day of the tenth month.The Taoists of the Wei and Jin Dynasties used "three officials" to match the seasons and seasons.The fifteenth day of the first month was named "Shangyuan", the fifteenth day of July was "Zhongyuan", and the fifteenth day of October was "Xiayuan", collectively called "three yuan".".In this way, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called Shangyuan Festival.In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Zimu said in "Dream Lianglu":"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Yuanxi Festival is the day when Shangyuan Tianguan bestows blessings." Therefore, the Shangyuan Festival should be lit.Therefore, the Lantern Festival in 2022 will be on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, on February 15th on the Gregorian calendar, Tuesday.
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