Introduction to the origin of hanging lanterns on Lantern Festival

# Lantern Festival # Introduction Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. The appreciation of the Lantern Festival began in ancient times when people held torches in rural fields to drive away insects and wild animals, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a bumper harvest. The following is the origin of hanging lanterns on the Lantern Festival. Welcome to read!

1. Introduction to the origin of hanging lanterns on the Lantern Festival

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of Spring Festival, people celebrate this festival and the continuation of the Spring Festival. Lantern Festival is also called "Shangyuan Festival".

According to the folk tradition in China, on this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting and setting fires, enjoying lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, family reunion and celebrating festivals are all enjoyment.

Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. The custom of burning lanterns in the Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the lantern viewing activities became more prosperous. Lights are hung everywhere in palaces and streets, and tall light wheels, light buildings and light trees have been built. Lu Zeng, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, described the grand occasion of the Lantern Festival in "Watching Lights at Fifteen Nights", saying that "the stars in the Han Dynasty fell, and the balcony was like a hanging moon."

In the Song Dynasty, more attention was paid to the Lantern Festival, and lantern viewing activities became more lively. The lantern viewing activity lasted for five days, and the styles of lanterns were more abundant. In the Ming Dynasty, the Lantern Festival will last 10 days, which is the longest Lantern Festival in China. Although there were only three days to enjoy the lanterns in the Qing Dynasty, the scale of the lantern viewing activities was unprecedented. Besides burning lanterns, fireworks are also set off for entertainment.

"Lantern riddle", also known as "playing riddles", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, which appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin 'an, the capital, made riddles every Lantern Festival, and there were many people in solve riddles on the lanterns. At the beginning, it was a busybody who wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of communication.

Folk custom of eating Yuanxiao on Lantern Festival. Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice, which can be solid or stuffed. Filled with bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, various fruit materials and so on. You can cook, fry, steam and fry when you eat. At first, people called this kind of food "Floating Zi Yuan", and later they called it "Tangtuan" or "Tangyuan". These names are similar in pronunciation, meaning reunion, symbolizing family reunion, harmony and happiness. People also miss their departed relatives and place their best wishes on their future lives.

In some places, the Lantern Festival also has the custom of "walking away from all diseases", which is also called "roasting all diseases" and "dispersing all diseases". Most of the participants are women. They walk together or against the wall, or across the bridge in the suburbs, in order to drive away diseases and eliminate disasters.

With the passage of time, there are more and more activities in the Lantern Festival, and many local festivals have added traditional folk performances such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than two thousand years, is not only popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also celebrated every year in areas where overseas Chinese live in concentrated communities.

2. Why do you eat jiaozi on the Lantern Festival?

The most perfect and brightest moment of the moon is when looking. What is "hope"? On the first day of the lunar calendar, the moon runs between the earth and the sun, and the illuminated hemisphere of the moon faces away from the earth, so we can't see the moon, which is called "new moon" or "new moon". On the fifteenth and sixteenth day of the lunar calendar, the bright side of the moon faces the earth, so we see a round moon, which is called "full moon" or "full moon".

In an era without the help of scientific instruments, the ancients found that the "steps" of the moon were sometimes very slow before "looking at the moon", and it might take 16- 17 days from "new moon" to "looking at the moon", so there was a "moon with 16 or even 17 laps". Under the background of pursuing Chinese New Year reunion, the moon on the fifteenth day of the first month is not round, so it is not perfect. Therefore, there is the custom of eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month and the sixteenth day of the first month.

Jiaozi is eaten in the Spring Festival. First, because jiaozi is shaped like a treasure, people eat jiaozi in the Spring Festival to get rich. Secondly, jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing and place people's hopes for the new year. For example, eating jiaozi at midnight on New Year's Eve means "making friends is young", and "making friends" is homophonic with "jiaozi", which means "reunion and happiness" and "good luck". Eating jiaozi on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar certainly means celebrating the New Year. Eating jiaozi is a New Year greeting, eating Yuanxiao is round and full of beauty, and the New Year must be sweet and smooth.

Since ancient times, rice has not been produced in Weibei countryside, and wheat flour is the staple food of the people. Therefore, on the Lantern Festival, people here still eat jiaozi like the first day of the first month. Weibei people call jiaozi a "pig's foot" because people here are used to wrapping jiaozi into a triangle. So it's called "boiled corner".

Northern China eats jiaozi during the Spring Festival, and so does Shandong, but they eat differently. Jiaozi is eaten four times in Jiaodong during the New Year, the first time in off-year, the second time in the evening of New Year's Eve, the third time on the second day of the first month and the fourth time on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Jiaozi can be divided into two factions, the North and the South, and they have different practices in dumpling wrapper and stuffing.

Jiaozi in the south is small in appearance, with thin and slippery dumpling skins and pork as the main stuffing. As a snack, you can also add fresh shrimp, crab roe, mushrooms and fungus, and cook them to make soup.

Compared with jiaozi in the south, the dumpling skin in the north is 2-3mm thick, so it should be elastic when pulled, smooth and smoky when eaten, and the top grade is the smell of flour. Don't fold the edges when wrapping jiaozi, so it won't be too thick and gravy won't leak easily. In terms of stuffing, we should pay attention to the average proportion of vegetables and meat, and we should have both vegetables and meat, one to one. Less food is not fragrant enough, and more meat is too fat. The meat should be full enough so that it won't spread easily.

To see whether jiaozi in the north is qualified, the first thing to look at is its appearance, which is full, steady and treasure-shaped. It can be called a qualified work with a lot of stuffing. In terms of eating method, the sauce in northern jiaozi is garlic vinegar sauce, which can stimulate the taste and help digestion. As for the bowl of jiaozi soup, it was only available after eating in jiaozi, but not in southern jiaozi. Because northerners believe that jiaozi is original only if it is boiled in water and eaten without soup. And eating jiaozi and drinking a bowl of jiaozi stock soup can help digestion.

3. Lantern Festival junior high school composition

The 15th day of the first lunar month is a traditional festival in China-Lantern Festival. The snow and ice in these two days blocked all the roads and could not seal people's enthusiasm for celebrating the festival. As night falls, thousands of families are brightly lit and red lanterns set off the bright and shining moon. High moon, affectionate, how many pairs of expectant eyes touch gently; The sound of firecrackers, gorgeous flowers, deafening guns, and a few lovesick tears?

In this happy and peaceful town, every day of the Spring Festival is drowned by firecrackers, especially the Lantern Festival!

The bright moonlight just fell on the earth, and a loud noise came from far and near. Gradually, the noise became denser and fiercer like the tide. A series of colorful screens rose into the air, clusters of flames burned in the air, fireworks bloomed in the air, and a loud noise shook the sky. The turbulent waves are higher and higher, and storms sweep over again and again. This momentum is like a cry of thousands of troops, like hundreds of millions of flowers offering incense frequently. Looking at the beautiful sky, colorful, just like a fairyland, and entering the valley of god, a wisp of fragrance makes people uneasy! If the moon is an eternal poem, then the fireworks all over the sky are an ever-changing painting.

Suddenly, there was a rare silence. But all of a sudden, a small golden strip slipped into the smoky sky. Bang, a huge and gorgeous fireworks show proudly bloomed in the empty sky. It's so beautiful and dazzling, bright red and green blend together, like a peach blossom with a green contrast, illuminating the whole earth! The big lantern hung by every household suddenly dimmed and was conquered by its powerful brilliance! A flower is not flat, a group of flowers rise again, and another fireworks blooms in its afterglow. It's golden, it's not very nice, and it makes people feel tasteless. The faint golden thread, which is flickering, is generous and extraordinary, flickering and shining, with more and more dots, which are like the stars in summer and thousands of little golden pigs fanning their ears. In a blink of an eye, this beautiful fireworks will be fragrant, but another fireworks will open again, continuing the beauty of the last one except the golden and gorgeous chrysanthemum. In this way, a chrysanthemum is fragrant and thousands of flowers offer petals. They continued their gorgeous gesture and disappeared. The golden light is dazzling, making people stunned and speechless!

How can you see all the flowers in the garden in spring? After a while, I looked at it at random and heard it ringing. Perhaps snow blocked people's enthusiasm for dancing lions, watching lanterns, guessing riddles and walking on stilts, but it was reflected by colorful fireworks in the air as a "colorful snow painting"!

4. Lantern Festival junior high school composition

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which falls on the 15th day of the first month every year. "On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival is a scene of prosperity." The annual Lantern Festival is coming, and every household is smiling.

On the Lantern Festival, every household is scrambling to make "Yuanxiao". I think Yuanxiao is actually the same as Tangyuan. They are all so round and white, white as chubby little dolls. I think Bao Yuanxiao is very interesting. Put all kinds of stuffing in the Lantern Festival: sesame seeds, red bean paste, longan, nuts and so on. And then wrap it up. I think "Yuanxiao" is homophonic with "Yuanxiao" and "Reunion Garden". Probably it is to rub the Yuanxiao very round, and then put the wrapped Yuanxiao into the pot to cook. In this way, the Lantern Festival is ready, and all families get together to eat. Just like this sentence, "make Yuanxiao, cook Yuanxiao, and have a reunion of flesh and blood."

You can also watch lanterns on the Lantern Festival. The streets are decorated with lights and colorful decorations. The whole street is like a happy event, lively and beautiful. On this day, you can also solve riddles on lanterns. You can put a piece of riddle paper under lanterns. You can think, you can watch lanterns, and you can get unexpected gifts. It's killing two birds with one stone! Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival. Listen to my mother talk about the Lantern Festival or Valentine's Day in China. On this day, couples will go hand in hand to watch the lights and performances. Laughter filled the whole street, and happiness filled everyone's heart.

Nothing is more lively than setting off fireworks on the Lantern Festival. There are many people in the street, and everyone is standing in the position of watching fireworks. The fireworks man came, he lit the fireworks, and "bang" began to play. Look, a firework like a mouse flies into the sky. As soon as the colorful flowers were fried, they flew in the sky and disappeared after a while. Then, another flower fell from the sky like a meteor shower, just like a girl scattering flowers ... More and more people, more and more laughter, and more and more beautiful "flowers" ... everyone was immersed in Yuan's midnight snack laughter.

On the Lantern Festival, every family got together, tired and sleepy, and soon fell into a wonderful dream. I think people will also laugh happily.

5. Lantern Festival junior high school composition

"On the fifteenth day of the first month, there are so many lanterns in the flowering period that I can't count them ..." I recited my own poems, stepped on the bright moonlight and skipped with my parents to see the lanterns on the pedestrian street of Haiming Road.

I stood in front of the door and looked up at the pedestrian street. I saw a sea of people on the pedestrian street, and the crowd moved slowly like a dragon. There are countless colorful lanterns hanging on it, which are really like the dense stars in the sky. There are people in the lamp, and there are lights among people!

Our family followed the crowd to the pedestrian street. Oh! There are also many large and small lanterns, including birthday lanterns, dragon column lanterns, playing dragons and umbrellas, playing the Eighth Ring Road, and rows of antique palace lanterns. The lights here are all poetic, exquisite and unique. What a wonderful feat!

Suddenly, a "good horse" with red dates appeared in front of me. I saw it carrying auspicious clouds, raising its front hoof and sounding a long sound. If it wants to go forward, there is a slogan on each side of the light. On the left is self-reliance, on the right is hard struggle, above is the revitalization of Baicheng, and below is stability and unity. Looking at this "good horse", I thought, "Our great motherland will spread all over Ma Benteng in the Year of the Horse in the 2 1 century, and it will develop rapidly and prosper."

What interests me most is that Mickey Mouse turns on the light in front of Baixin Shoes City. Mickey Mouse, who is usually humorous, is dressed beautifully today, as if he had come to attend the Lantern Festival. It holds colorful flowers in its right hand and holds it high in its left hand, as if waving to everyone. Suddenly, Mickey Mouse's tail exploded with a beep, which startled us. It turned out that this was a surprise for everyone. "Ha ha ha ha" the audience burst into laughter ... everyone was immersed in joy.

Finally, we came to the most attractive "three-dimensional traffic bridge" lamp in this year's Lantern Festival. A series of "high mountains", "overpasses", ring roads and train tracks constitute a prosperous scene of vigorous traffic development. Long trains carry all kinds of goods to all parts of the motherland. Cars of all sizes are driving on the "loop" ... everything is so orderly. Seeing this lamp, we seem to see the prospect of Baicheng, the pearl of grassland. This lamp embodies the wisdom of the people of our city and the great achievements of the motherland's reform.

The full moon is high in the sky, the night is already deep, and the pedestrian street on that day is still lively, and laughter is endless. Because I have to go to school tomorrow, I have to leave the pedestrian street reluctantly, but the ingenious colored lights and smiling faces still appear in front of me. ...