Children in Qingquan Street Community, Yuquan District, Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia are tasting the Lantern Festival to welcome the festival. Photo report by Zhang Feng Ding Genhou
Photo: The lantern festival of folk art in Yu Garden, Shanghai, is brightly lit. Photo by Wang Chu (People's Vision): In Danzhai County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, people participate in the Lantern Festival lantern riddle guessing activity. Photo by Huang Xiaohai (People's Vision).
Photo: The 30th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival held at the China Lantern World in Zigong City, Sichuan Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Bohan: In Jiaxiang County, Jining City, Shandong Province, creative decorative pendants create a strong festive atmosphere. Photo by Yao Ye (People's Vision) Lantern Festival (excerpt).
Tang Yin (Ming) has a lamp without a moon and does not entertain people, and a moon without a lamp is not considered spring.
When spring arrives, people in the world are like jade, and the lamp burns the moon and the moon is like silver.
Thousands of doors are unlocked and thousands of lights are bright", the Lantern Festival is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. The first month of the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Yuan Xi Festival, and the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival night is not only the night of the full moon, but also the night of folk entertainment.
The moon is full in the sky and the world is reunited
There are lights and no moon, and there is no entertainment", the moon has always been one of the key words of the Lantern Festival. Since ancient times, people have gathered on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to enjoy the first full moon of the year. With the moonlight, the Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls that are often eaten during the Lantern Festival are also endowed with the symbolic meaning of "reunion" and "consummation".
The Lantern Festival in the north is made on the basis of the filling: first mix the filling, spread it evenly into a large round sheet, cool it and then cut it into even small square pieces, and then put the filling into a machine like a sieve, pour Jiang rice noodles, the fillings become balls in the impact of each other, and the Jiang rice also stains the surface of the filling to form the Lantern Festival, commonly known as "shaking the Lantern Festival".
Different from the "shake" in the north, the south is "wrapping" glutinous rice balls. First, add water and form a ball of glutinous rice flour, and let it "wake up" for a few hours. Then mix the various ingredients for the filling and put it in a large bowl for later use. The wet glutinous rice flour is extremely viscous, so I have to pull a small ball of wet noodles by hand and squeeze it into a round shape. Use chopsticks or a thin bamboo slice-like tool to pick a lump of stuffing and put it on the glutinous rice slices, and then use both hands to turn and close the mouth to make rice balls.
The moon is full in the sky, the world is reunited, and "circle" has a special meaning for Chinese. When the family gathers together during the Lantern Festival, eating a bite of Lantern Festival or glutinous rice balls is a warm ritual and a heavy sustenance.
The lanterns are lit up all night
The origin of the Lantern Festival can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty. The Han Dynasty has formed the custom of watching lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. By the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival had developed into an unprecedented lantern market. Since the Song Dynasty, the Lantern Festival has been popular for the city during the day and lighting the lights at night. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, every Lantern Festival, lanterns were put up all over the place, and all night long.
The fifteenth night of the first lunar month (excerpt).
Su flavor (Tang).
The fire tree and silver flowers are closed, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened.
The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one.
Lanterns are the most characteristic image of the Lantern Festival, and the custom of appreciating lanterns during the Lantern Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years. Flower lanterns, also known as colored lanterns, are cultural products of China's traditional agricultural era, with both life functions and artistic characteristics. There are many kinds of lanterns in various parts of our country, the forms are ever-changing, and the production skills are also distinctive. For example, the palace lantern in Beijing, the dragon lantern in Shanghai, the horse lantern in Guangdong, the ice lantern in Harbin, the Zigong lantern in Sichuan, etc. With the development of technology, more new varieties of lanterns have emerged one after another, and some lanterns have also added reinforced iron skeleton lamp frames, micro motors and electro-acoustic light sources. In Zigong, traditional lanterns and digital technology meet, colliding with new craftsmanship and new creativity, and the visually stunning lantern landscape is famous at home and abroad.
For the lively and prosperous scene of the lantern market on the night of the Lantern Festival, the poets have always been stingy to describe it with beautiful verses. "The fire trees and silver flowers are together, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened", "The east wind blooms thousands of trees at night, and the stars are like rain" ......These poems vividly describe the lively scene of the Lantern Festival. "When the moon arrives at the head of the willow tops, people are about after dusk", "The crowd is looking for him, and suddenly he looks back, but the person is there, and the lights are dim" ......These poems describing love also add an indispensable romantic color to the Lantern Festival.
Folklore activities are bustling
The liveliness of the Lantern Festival is key to the word "trouble". The Lantern Festival often begins on the 10th day of the first month and reaches its climax on the 15th night of the first month. At this time, in addition to eating Lantern Festival and watching lanterns, activities such as quizzes, singing and dancing, acrobatics and drama performances are also the highlight of the Lantern Festival folk culture.
Kyoto New Year's Eve. Yuan Hao asked (Yuan).
Dressed in gorgeous clothes, the lights on the sixth street are noisy for children.
What am I doing in the cheongsam, but also in the laughter of tourists.
After the Song Dynasty, in addition to carefully making various lanterns, people also began to paste various riddles for the lanterns, which formed the most characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival: guessing lantern riddles. Guessing lantern riddles is an informative, entertaining and interesting activity, and it is also an important part of the Spring Festival lantern festival activities around the world. The emergence and development of lantern riddles have greatly enriched the cultural connotation of the lantern festival and enhanced the charm of the lantern festival. The riddle of the lantern riddle is varied, whether it is poetry, articles, flowers and birds, as long as it is a well-known thing, it can become a riddle. After the Six Dynasties until the Tang Dynasty, there were many literati who loved riddles. Riddles hung in the lamp for people to guess, and it began in the Southern Song Dynasty. Because guessing puzzles can inspire wisdom and be interesting, they are very popular among people.
In some areas, there is also the custom of rowing dry boats during the Lantern Festival. The rowing boat, also known as the running boat, is said to be created according to the plot of the fishermen fishing on the water, and its performances and props are very simple and simple, with a strong atmosphere of life. The performers hold oars in their hands, do rowing movements, and sing local tunes as they run.
In addition, there are dragon dances, lion dances, Yangge twisting ......People use a variety of activities to express the expectation of the four seasons and welcome a smooth and healthy life.
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