About the customs, poems, couplets and festival cultural slogans of the Lantern Festival

1. Customs:

The Lantern Festival customs have been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times.

The formation of the Lantern Festival customs has a long process. According to general information and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been taken seriously in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty worshiped "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on Xinye night of the first lunar month. This activity was regarded by later generations as the precursor to offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. However, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month truly became a folk festival after the Han and Wei dynasties.

The custom of lighting lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is related to the spread of Buddhism to the East. During the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism flourished, and officials and common people generally "burned lanterns to worship Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and Buddhist lights spread all over the people. Starting from the Tang Dynasty, lighting up lanterns during the Lantern Festival has become a legal matter and has gradually become a folk custom.

The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals also include traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern dancing, lion dancing, stilt walking, land boat rowing, Yangko dancing, and Taiping drum playing.

2. Poems:

On the willow branches above the moon, people meet after dusk.

3. Couplet:

The high-burning red candle reflects the long sky, bright, and the light spreads all over the ground. The low-point fireworks shook the earth, making loud noises and breathing into the sky.

4. Festival cultural slogans:

Shanghai Yuan Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival.