Festivals and customs on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month Lantern Festival customs
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in the year, so the fifteenth day 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 Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times.The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China and Chinese character cultural circles and overseas Chinese.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.
Customs and habits of the Lantern Festival
In addition, many local Lantern Festivals also add traditional folk performances such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, twisting Yangko, playing Taiping drums, etc.In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China.Every Lantern Festival or assembly celebration, folks come to cheer with lion dance.This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, became popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and has a history of more than a thousand years.
"Lion Dance" began in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Tang Dynasty.The lion’s body and hind legs, the other person is the lion lead, and the dance is divided into civil and martial arts.The literary dance shows the tameness of the lion, including shaking its hair and rolling.Actions such as colored balls.
Rat chasing is a traditional folk activity during the Lantern Festival, which began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.Mainly for silkworm farmers.Because mice often eat large areas of silkworms at night, it is said that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, mice can be fed rice porridge so that they can stop eating silkworms.
In "Jingchu Sui Sui Ji", it is said that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, an immortal descended to the earth to a person named Chen and said to them:If you can sacrifice to me, let your silkworms Harvest.Later it became a custom.
Customs of Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month
1.Playing with dragon lanterns
Playing with dragon lanterns is also called dragon dance, also called dragon lantern dance.
Dragon lanterns are generally made of bamboo, colored paper, cloth, etc.The number of sections is odd and several feet long.Those that can burn candles are called "dragon lanterns" and those that cannot burn candles are called "bulong"., When the dragon dances, the lead dancer holds the dragon head, and dozens of people hold up the wooden sticks that are closely connected to the dragon body.After that, the whole dragon runs along the prescribed route and queue to the sound of music.The dragon is like alive, and folks use this custom to seek good weather and good harvest.
2.Stepping on stilts
Stepping on stilts is a popular folk art performance.The performers not only walk with long wood tied to their feet, but also jump and dance swords.It is said that the form of walking on stilts was originally a kind of stilt skill developed by ancient people in order to collect wild fruits from trees for food and tied two long sticks to their legs.
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