Beijing Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month and the Lantern Festival
It is the night of the full moon on the fifteenth day, but if you want to say which full moon night is the most special, it must be the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.The first full moon night is also our Lantern Festival, so it means It is extraordinary, there must be some different customs on this day.Now let’s go to see how the lanterns on the Lantern Festival are.
Lantern Festival is going to be a Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the year and the end of the Spring Festival, so folk activities are particularly lively.A poem by Zhang Hu of the Tang Dynasty described this day as "thousands of gates are unlocked and thousands of lanterns are lit, and the imperial capital will be moved in the middle of the first month." Various activities, such as viewing lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, setting off fireworks, and eating Lantern Festival, are held all over the country.But in the Beijing area, the rough northern character has more carnivals different from the south, such as playing dragon lanterns, lion dances, Yangko twisting, playing Taiping drums, running dry boats, and donkeys, etc., collectively called "Flower Festival".On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, flower shows organized by the people will parade and perform at the intersections of the blocks.
For example, "Run Donkey", which is a traditional Chinese folk dance.It is said that it has a history of more than 200 years.Donkey running requires donkey-shaped props, which are mainly composed of donkey head, donkey body and donkey tail.The skeleton is made of bamboo, and paper or cloth is pasted on the outside.Leave a square hole that can be worn around a person’s waist, and then surround it with red and blue cloth.Most of the performances are performed by young women dressed up as rural daughter-in-laws, with donkey-shaped props tied around their waists, with a donkey head in front and a donkey tail in the back.Bu Nei trembled, and took small steps to imitate the way a donkey ran.From time to time, he makes funny moves of jumping, jumping, kicking, and startling, coupled with the exaggerated makeup and expressions on his face, which often makes the onlookers burst into laughter.There is also a man next to her playing the role of husband, holding a whip as if driving a donkey, so there is a plot.This is a rural couple who encountered some small stories on the way back to their natal home in the first month:such as crossing a ditch, climbing a hill, and the donkey was startled., How to rescue the husband, etc., the husband and wife talked and sang, humorous, accompanied by drums, cymbals, suona and other musical instruments, walking on the happy streets, pushing the waves of the festive ocean.
At the same time as the flower show, there is also a folk song and dance of "rowing a dry boat", which is also called "running a dry boat", which is mostly popular in northern rural areas.Its props are made of a wooden frame according to the shape of the ship.The surrounding of the wooden frame is surrounded by cotton cloth, and the traditional patterns of the sea and river cliffs are painted in sea blue on it, which is intended to show the appearance of the boat floating in the water.Leave a square opening on the top of the dry boat, cover the head and tail of the boat with colored cloth, and use four wooden sticks to prop up a boat canopy, and decorate colorful flower tassels around it.In the square opening left on the boat, there is a Beautifully dressed women tie themselves to the boat with a cloth strap on their shoulders, and hold the side of the boat with both hands.Outside the boat is a man dressed as a boatman, holding a paddle, making undulating gait, and walking with the boat.The women in the boat cooperated tacitly with the boatman, imitating the ups and downs of the water waves in the boat.From time to time, they seemed to encounter eddies and violent bumps.The women screamed.Their interesting shapes and dancing postures won applause from the audience.Marching, the flow of people on the street also flocked to follow.Yuan Haowen, a poet of the Jin Dynasty, described this situation:"Every place is full of costumes and make-up, and the lights on the Sixth Street are noisy for children.What should I do with a long gown? This is also in the jokes of tourists." When I was a child, the population of Beijing was still small, and the cars were too As a result, the Flower Festival can be performed on the streets of the city, but now it can only be seen occasionally in the suburbs of Beijing.
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