[New Year's Customs and Chinese New Year] Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month
It is said that time is like water, and in a blink of an eye, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month – the Lantern Festival!
As a traditional festival of our Chinese nation, Lantern Festival is also known as Shangyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival. It is the first full moon night in the year, and it is also the beginning of the return of spring to the earth and the recovery of all things. Children's national sentiment and cultural origin.
There is an old saying in the folk that "the fifteenth year is a new year". It can be seen that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a very important part of the Spring Festival festival, which is responsible for the finishing work.
The first month is also known as the first month, and the ancients called "night" as "xiao".
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, spring returns to the earth, all things recover, and people have to start a year of hard work and hard work.
At the beginning of the year, the Chinese people especially hope for good omen and good luck.
Therefore, people also pay special attention to the celebration of various festivals during the Lantern Festival.
For example, "flower lanterns", "dragon and lion dances", "guessing lantern riddles", "walking on stilts" and other lively and interesting folk activities.
And these folk activities have a relatively common state is to highlight a "noisy" word.
"On the head of the willow on the moon, people are about after dusk." On the day of the "Shangyuan Festival" in the Tang Dynasty, there was a habit of putting lanterns and no curfew in the city.
People who have worked hard for a year use this moment to release their emotions, celebrate the return of spring to the earth, and use this to adjust their physical and mental state and prepare for the new year's production labor.
And the various festivals and celebrations on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month also attract countless young men and women to take to the streets for a casual encounter, which is vividly described by the great poet Xin Qiji:
"Moth's snow willow with golden strands, the laughter is full of dark fragrance. The crowd is looking for him thousands of times. When I look back, the man is there, where the lights are dim."
The custom of eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month began in the Song Dynasty.
The round Yuanxiao is "shaken" with glutinous rice flour. The surface is rough and the soup is turbid. It is unique when it is made into "fried Yuanxiao".
The dumplings in the south are wrapped, with a smooth surface and richer fillings, but they are only limited to boiled, not fried.
Eat a bowl of Lantern Festival, enjoy the scenery along the way, and feel at ease; think about the future, wave your hand, and go to the stars and sea of tomorrow.
(Reporter Pang Miao intern Dong Jiawei integrated)