The first month of the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the "night" as the "night", and the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the "Lantern Festival". The following is a collection of Lantern Festival is a legal holiday, welcome to read and share, I hope you can like it.
The Lantern Festival is not a national holiday.
At present, national statutory holidays include New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, and other holidays cannot be regarded as statutory holidays for the time being.
National holidays refer to the days on which the state stipulates holidays. If the employer arranges overtime work on statutory holidays, it shall pay the employee a wage remuneration of not less than 300% of the employee's daily or hourly wages for normal working hours.
1. Breakfast should not be eaten.
Lantern Festival is a high-calorie, high-sugar food, which also contains oil, but lacks nutrients, and does not have many other nutrients except calories and sugar. Such food is not suitable for breakfast, in addition to the lack of nutrition, but also because the gastrointestinal function is the weakest when people get up early, and the part of the outer skin of the Lantern Festival is mostly glutinous rice, which is highly viscous and difficult to digest. Therefore, it is easy to have indigestion when eating Lantern Festival for breakfast, and pantothenic acid, heartburn, etc., affect the work and life of the day.
2. Limit each meal to one or two taels, and appropriately reduce the number of staple foods.
In addition to the fact that breakfast is not suitable for eating Lantern Festival, it is best not to take Lantern Festival as a main meal, after breakfast in the morning.
It's okay to eat some Lantern Festival at nine or ten o'clock or in the afternoon when you have a meal, but you can eat one at a time.
One, two, two is enough. While eating Lantern Festival, you can't eat other foods with high sugar content; It is also necessary to reduce the intake of other staple foods, generally speaking, it is necessary to subtract half a tael of staple foods after eating three Lantern Festivals. If the night snack is close to the time of sleeping, it is best not to eat the Lantern Festival, otherwise, as mentioned earlier, this kind of food is not easy to digest and slow to empty, which will also increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. After eating the Lantern Festival, it is best to move for more than two hours before going to bed.
3. Drink some soup to promote digestion and turn the original soup into the original food.
After boiling, many nutrients such as trace elements and nutrients in the Lantern Festival are dissolved in the soup. Therefore, you can't forget to drink soup when eating Lantern Festival, drinking soup can promote digestion and absorption, that is, "original soup turns into original food" as often said by folks. However, when drinking soup, you must be careful not to add sugar to the soup.
If you eat salty Lantern Festival, you can put some small dried shrimp and vegetables in the soup to supplement nutrition, but it is best not to put fat or seasonings. Secretly tell you a secret, in fact, at this time, it is best to cook glutinous rice balls with Baiqu Ice Spring, which can not only promote digestion, but also supplement trace elements, isn't it particularly perfect!
1. The pronunciation of tangyuan is similar to that of "reunion", and the Lantern Festival is often when the wanderer who returns home leaves home again, so people eat tangyuan on the Lantern Festival, pinning on the good wishes of the new year, hoping that the year can also be reunited.
2. The traditional glutinous rice balls are glutinous rice as the skin and whole grains as the filling, such as peanuts and sesame seeds that we often eat. Therefore, people eat glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival in the hope that there will be a good harvest in the new year, and the wind and rain will be smooth. The rich filling also means that wealth is wide and full of blessings.
3. The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is when the moon is full, and the nightlife in ancient times was not as rich as it is now, so in ancient times, there was often a habit of chatting with family members to enjoy the moon. The white and mellow rice balls are like the bright moon in the sky, so the ancients entrusted the family with the wish of harmony and beauty to the rice balls.
4. Health preservation effect: keep out the cold, nourish the spleen and stomach, and benefit the lungs. Eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival not only means a happy family reunion, but also has the health effects of keeping out the cold, nourishing the spleen and stomach, and benefiting the lungs. The main material of the Lantern Festival dumplings is glutinous rice, which is pointed out in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that glutinous rice is the valley of nourishing the spleen and stomach and benefiting the lungs. Glutinous rice is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and can nourish the body's qi and blood and nourish the spleen and stomach after eating. The coldest winter is Sanjiu, although it has passed, but the weather is warm and cold, and the most likely loss in cold days is the stomach. The ancients used glutinous rice materials to make glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, in addition to the stickiness of glutinous rice, the round rice is easy to get out of the pot and will not fall apart, but also because the glutinous rice has the characteristics of keeping out the cold.
1. Tangyuan and Lantern Festival.
During the Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls, and northerners eat Lantern Festival, all in order to seek a beautiful meaning of family reunion. The main raw materials for making glutinous rice balls and Lantern Festival are glutinous rice, which is flat in nature, sweet in taste, replenishes deficiency and regulates blood, strengthens the spleen and appetizes, invigorates qi and stops diarrhea, and has the functions of warming, invigorating and moistening dryness. The filling of the rice balls is sweet, salty, meaty, and vegetarian, while the Lantern Festival is mostly sweet filling, which is generally based on fruit and dried fruits.
2. Lettuce. Cantonese people like to "steal" lettuce and cook it with cakes during the Lantern Festival, which is said to represent good luck. Cantonese people have a peaceful and practical personality, and they also have the most good intentions for festivals, and lettuce is usually used most often for festivals such as new store openings, and it is also a necessary festival item for the Lantern Festival. Lettuce, which is often a common vegetable on the southern dinner table, has a homonym for "shengcai", so it is also regarded as a festive thing that symbolizes wealth and auspiciousness.
3. Lantern Festival tea.
In Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Lantern Festival tea, that is, putting various vegetables and fruits in the hot noodle soup, much like the "Lantern Festival porridge" in ancient times. This tea increases the intake of fiber, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as ordinary Lantern Festival, which has a neutralizing effect on the acidic constitution due to eating more animal foods during the festival, and also makes the nutrition of Lantern Festival more comprehensive.
4. Camellia oleifera. The food on the night of the Lantern Festival, the flat ground is said to be "fifteen flat, sixteen round", one day to eat dumplings, one day to eat Lantern Festival; In the mountainous area, it is "fifteen dozen oil tea, sixteen pinched flat food". It is the so-called "ten miles of different customs". Tea is made by stirring tea noodles with chopsticks and putting them in the pot to make oil tea, also known as noodle tea.
1. Step on stilts.
Walking on stilts is a very ancient folk skill performance, which has appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. When it comes to the Lantern Festival, this kind of folk activity of stepping on stilts is popular in many places. Stilts are generally made of wood, with a support point made in the planed wooden stick so that the feet can be placed, and then tied to the legs with ropes. Performers can not only walk freely on stilts, but also do various difficult movements such as splitting, jumping stools, twisting Yangge, dancing knives and guns.
2. Lion dance.
Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Every Lantern Festival or other gatherings, the folk will use lion dances to help the fun. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and has a history of more than 1,000 years.
3. Viewing lanterns.
The custom of appreciating lanterns during the Lantern Festival originated from the period of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty. During the Yongping period, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty vigorously advocated Buddhism and ordered to "burn lamps for Buddha" in the palace and temples on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month. Later, the custom of putting lanterns on the Lantern Festival spread to the people in the court, every Lantern Festival, whether it is a scholar or a commoner, every household will hang up lanterns, and the streets and alleys will be brilliantly lit.
Fourth, play dragon lanterns.
The dragon lantern is also called "dragon dance", which has a history of more than 2,000 years. In ancient times, people prayed for the blessing of the dragon in the way of dragon dance, so as to pray for good weather and abundant crops in the coming year. The custom of dragon dance has also been carried forward and flourished by overseas Chinese, and every time the traditional festival or major celebration of the Chinese, they will dance the lion and play the dragon lantern, showing a strong oriental atmosphere.
Fifth, twist Yangge.
During the Lantern Festival, the rustic northerners like to celebrate in the form of twisting Yangge. The style of Yangge is also different from place to place, including Yangge in Northern Shaanxi, Yangge in Northeast China, Yangge in Hebei, Yangge in Shandong, and so on. Among them, Yangge in Northeast China has the widest spread and the highest artistic level.