Every year on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, just after the Spring Festival, it is the traditional Chinese festival - the Lantern Festival; We celebrate the Lantern Festival every year, but did you know that in fact, the Lantern Festival, for thousands of years, has its own unique wine culture.
Regarding the Lantern Festival, Xin Qiji once used "a thousand trees blooming on the east wind night" to describe its fire trees and silver flowers, Li Shangyin presented its splendid clusters with "Xiangche Baogai Pass", and Pu Songling's "Everyone Wine in the Depths of the Snow Fence" combined drinking with the warm reunion of the Shangyuan Festival, which was appropriately embellished, and also pushed the wine culture of the Lantern Festival to a climax! 
1. Lantern Festival wine customs: lamp wine and pray for peaceDrinking during festivals is an integral part of Chinese wine culture; In ancient times, drinking during the Lantern Festival not only had a reunion celebration, but also a prayer for peace. The festival is coming, the festive lanterns are all over the streets and alleys, and people walk together to enjoy the lanterns at the same time, there is also a strong New Year's flavor of "drinking lantern wine" activities.
2. Lantern Festival wine customs: wine reflects the snow moon
The street lights are shadowing the flowers, and the plum fragrance in the village is accompanied by the fragrance of wine. The meaning of the sentence is simple, but the words reveal the liveliness of the world; This is a sentence from the Lantern Festival wine couplet; The wine association is a wonderful wine culture and regional culture; Drinking against each other is a beautiful and gentle tradition. Stepping on the moon and watching the lanterns, singing to the wine, the Lantern Festival is such a moment, the winter landscape is still there, the afterglow of the New Year is undiminished, enjoying the drunken comfort in the beautiful scenery of the good day, and the interest of a beautiful life in the year has a good start. 
3. Lantern Festival wine customs: thousands of cups and thousands of lamps converge into a song
Today's Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, poetry meeting and other commemorative activities are also attracting people's attention; However, with the passing of history, people in the new era have their own entertainment thinking and methods, and celebration and liveliness have become the proper meaning of modern festivals; Wang Lida's song "Reunion Wine" sings people's feelings about the New Year's Festival today, "Thousands of cups and thousands of lights, happy for the family". 
Fourth, the local Lantern Festival wine customs:
Guangdong Lantern Festival wine custom - "drinking lamp wine".
The history and customs of Lantern Festival wine in Guangdong are well preserved, and it is called "drinking lantern wine". According to experts in Guangdong folk customs, "drinking lamp wine" is the most intact in Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Shunde's "drinking lamp wine" began to become popular among the people, and was held during the eighth day of the first lunar month to the Lantern Festival every year; Because this is the most joyful time of the year for the family to reunite, each family in front of the ancestral hall put up lanterns, a feast, the whole village fathers and villagers gathered together, happy drink.
The original purpose of "drinking lamp wine" was to worship the shrine god (land), pray for a good harvest, or celebrate Tim Ding; Today, it is often on the "drinking lamp wine" to raise funds for public welfare activities.
Like most cultural activities, the "Drinking Lantern Wine" was inevitably interrupted during the Cultural Revolution and was not officially resumed until 1981. Now, with the improvement of people's living standards, this folk custom is not only becoming more and more prosperous, but also integrated into the concept of modern life, but also because of its fame, it has been used by the people of other provinces and cities for reference. Ancient cultural practices, revival is just around the corner. 
Zhejiang Lantern Festival wine custom - "New Year's Festival wine".
In Hangzhou, Shaoxing and other places in Zhejiang, the Lantern Festival is called "New Year's Festival", which is understood as "New Year's Elimination", which eliminates the New Year's goods and eliminates the New Year's flavor. The first of the "Top Ten Famous Towns in the South of the Yangtze River", Tangqi Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, "New Year's Wine" starts from the second day of the Lunar New Year and continues until the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, reaching its climax during the Lantern Festival. Everyone took the opportunity of eating "New Year's wine" to connect with each other and exchange information. The "New Year's Eve wine" is often served with homemade plum wine.
In Anchang Ancient Town, Keqiao District, Shaoxing, the old wine drunk in the "New Year's Eve Wine", the locals only choose the local famous product - Yuanhong. The "Yuan Red Wine" made of glutinous rice, the color is like amber, the taste is sweet and mellow, and drinking this wine during the New Year has the meaning of indicating the complete auspiciousness and great red and noble in the year. As the saying goes, "after drinking the New Year's wine, each goes to the future", Shaoxing people do business abroad, and drinking "New Year's wine" is often a recommendation in terms of connections.
Next to Qiandao Lake, in Jiande City, Hangzhou, the family of a newly married daughter-in-law will set up a wine sacrifice bed during the Lantern Festival; In Wuhan, Hubei, Ji'an, Jiangxi, Tujia area of Guizhou and other places, there is also the custom of "Lantern Festival wine".
Throughout the ages, people's lives have changed too much, but people's feelings for drinking during the Lantern Festival, blessings and prayers have not changed.
Raise a glass to the festival with you: respect for family, respect for friends, respect for every noble person in life, pray that this year, the lights will be bright, and the family will be safe and complete. 