[Explanation] On February 5th, the "Lantern Festival", one of the traditional Chinese festivals, ushered in.
Why do you say "make" the Lantern Festival?
How did the ancients "make trouble" for the Lantern Festival?
[Concurrent] Wang Juan, an expert on folklore at Peking University
During the Lantern Festival, there are a lot of various entertainment activities, and it is very lively, so it is called "Lantern Festival".
From the perspective of festival research, we say that the Spring Festival is an interval.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is an ending ceremony. The Spring Festival is over, so it is also a very important node in the Spring Festival. If you go to the fun at the end, the festival will be completely over.
Because it is the Lantern Festival, it is a very typical event to decorate lanterns and festoons. There are a lot of craftsmen who tie up all kinds of colored lanterns. It is said that they can be as high as 20 feet high and can hang 50,000 colored lanterns. , especially the grand festival, is the same as the day.
There will be various dance performances under the lamp, such as stilt walking, dry boat rowing, lion dance, dragon lantern dance, and it is more lively than we are now.
[Explanation] There are countless poems written by literati and ink writers in the past dynasties describing the scenes of the Lantern Festival.
[Concurrent] Wang Juan, an expert on folklore at Peking University
How lively the ancient Lantern Festival was, we said that there are some very famous poems.
For example, Xin Qiji's "Dongfeng puts flowers and thousands of trees at night, blows down, and stars are like rain", which reflects the street scene at the night of the Lantern Festival at that time.
There is also a very famous "People search for him thousands of times, and suddenly look back, but the man is in a dimly lit place", which also describes the state of bright lights. Many people gather on the street, and they often get lost and cannot find each other. scene.
[Explanation] In addition, eating glutinous rice balls and rolling Yuanxiao are the most distinctive food customs of the Lantern Festival. Experts said that in addition to Yuanxiao and Tangyuan, there are also special food customs such as eating Lantern Festival tea, jujube cakes, and noodles.
[Concurrent] Wang Juan, an expert on folklore at Peking University
The unified food in various places is actually Yuanxiao, or glutinous rice balls.
Local foods, such as jujube cakes, sugar cakes, and noodles.
The Lantern Festival in the north is rolled out of noodles. After the filling is prepared, glutinous rice flour is rolled on the flour, and finally rolled into Lantern Festival.
Southern glutinous rice balls are usually wrapped, glutinous rice flour is made into a dough, and the fillings are placed on top.
It represents a kind of reunion or consummation, and I hope the whole year will have a good start.
Dong Yufei and Wang Shibo report from Beijing
Responsible editor: [Liu Xian]