Please tell me something about the Lantern Festival:

During the Lantern Festival in Yongping Prefecture, Hebei Province, sick women gathered under the kiln and called it "pottery moxibustion". Children crossing the bridge are called "Du Bai Goose". Some people cut the paper into nine paper ropes and tied them with their hands to make up for their mistakes. This is called "knotting sheep intestines". Use twelve cups to store oil, put it in a pot and steam it. According to the amount of water in the cups, predict the sunny and rainy days this month. The Shangyuan Festival in Jinghai County takes big steamed bread as its diet. Qingyun County, Lantern Festival, the man asked five ancestors to teach boxing sticks, and the woman asked Zi Gubu to take the blame.

In Zichuan County, Shandong Province, people near the water put more river lanterns on the Lantern Festival. Ningyang county sends lanterns to ancestral graves during the Lantern Festival. Boxing township has the custom of lighting lanterns on the Lantern Festival. The boy walked around the jujube tree six times with a lamp and said "Du Lao Du Lao, flowers and dates" six times, which can make the jujube tree harvest. Men, women and children in Juxian county go for an outing in the wild on the 16th day of the first month, which is called "walking old". It is said that walking once a year can keep them young forever.

[Henan Province] Eating wonton during the Lantern Festival in Xiangcheng County is called "reunion tea". The bride's family took her married daughter home for the New Year, and when Yixian celebrated the Lantern Festival, the old, the weak and the sick all used fire to moxibustion stone turtles. If there is a river bridge in the area, cross it at the same speed. If there is no bridge, build an "overpass" with wooden boards several feet high, which is called "walking all diseases"

Fengxiang County [Shaanxi Province] fetes his daughter and son-in-law at the Lantern Festival, which is called "Eating Fifteen". And sending lights to send oil is called "adding oil". In Wujin County, Jiangsu Province, on the first day of last week, people tied a reed into a torch of Zhang Xu and planted it in the ground, which was called "Zhao Tiancai" to predict the morning and evening. White fire is water, and Rise of the Legend is drought. On the Lantern Festival in Yixing, children wear ghost masks, bend their feet and jump around with their shoulders shaking, which is called "jumping ghosts".

[Zhejiang Province] In Hangzhou, it is said that the 15th day of the first month is the day when Shangyuan God blessed the people. He spent a lot of time on vegetarian chanting and prostrated himself in Wu Shan. The most famous Lantern Festival in Haining is the exquisite chrysanthemum lantern. Shangyu County will compete in martial arts on the platform before the Lantern Festival. In Jiande County, if someone has a new wife, a wine sacrifice bed will be set on the Lantern Festival.

Jiangxi province: people in Xinjian county sweep graves and put bamboo as lanterns during the Lantern Festival. Every town in wanan county worships Shenzhou on the Lantern Festival.

In Yunmeng County, Hubei Province (now Jianghan), the old farmer took a torch to illuminate Pu Tian at midnight snack, which is called "illuminating the Jedi silkworm". Children greet God with drums and fields and predict the future. Wuchang's "dragon making" will last for three days. All the men, women and children in the village follow the dragon lantern to the neighboring village for dinner, which is called "Dragon for Wine".

In Shangyuan County, Changde, Hunan Province, Chili peppers are used as soup, and leeks and fruits are added to entertain guests, which is called "time soup". After swimming in the dragon lantern in Xintian County, the dragon lantern was lit, which is called "sending disaster".

[Sichuan Province] Sichuan Lantern Festival has the custom of "four steals": "one steals jiaozi, the other steals green, the third steals eaves lamp and the fourth steals red." Except for stealing youth and strengthening the body, the rest are customs of seeking children. There is a custom of "cursing" in Kaixian County. On the Lantern Festival, people move the benches outdoors and scold all the grievances at ordinary times. Those who are scolded are not allowed to scold them back.

[Fujian Province] Quanzhou lanterns are unique, including incense lanterns, paper-folded lotus lanterns, silk palace lanterns and eight-knot lanterns. Temples in Shaowu County welcome incense around the border at midnight snack, which is called "Clean Street". In southern Fujian, there is a custom that children in two villages throw stones at each other for fun at the Lantern Festival. It is said that there will be a plague in that village if stones are not thrown.

[Guangdong Province] Last year, boys were born in Xin 'an County, and they all celebrated with lanterns after midnight. When Nanxiong lit the lamp, parents took down the dragon beard thread from the dragon lantern and tied it for the children. It is said that children can be protected from diseases. He still took the candle left in the dragon lantern and shone it under the bed. It is said that he can give birth to your son. People in Wenchang county steal green snacks in the middle of the night, and those who steal them take being scolded as a good omen, while those who can't steal them take not being scolded as a good omen.

Yunlong County, Yunnan Province greeted three worshippers before the Lantern Festival and set up a shed along the street to offer sacrifices. Burning incense on the bridge on the second day of Maitreya Lantern Festival, throwing stones into the water, and then washing your eyes with water, it is said that you can get rid of the disease. In addition to visiting the lantern market, people in the past dynasties also had customs such as welcoming children to visit Ce Shen, crossing the bridge and touching nails to walk away from all diseases, and playing games such as Taiping Drum, Yangko, stilts, dragon dance and lion dance. At the same time, we should also eat some festive foods: in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, we ate bean porridge or rice porridge boiled with meat and animal oil during the Lantern Festival; In the Tang dynasty, we ate a kind of pasta called "Miancocoon" and baked cakes. In the Song Dynasty, soup made of salted black beans and mung bean powder appeared, and "jiaozi" appeared. From then on, we ate Yuanxiao in the north and south of the Lantern Festival.

During the Lantern Festival, it is an opportunity for young men and women to meet their lovers, so the Lantern Festival has become the "Valentine's Day" in China.

(1) Blessing in Shangyuan

People divide nature into three realms: heaven, earth and water, and personify it. Therefore, it is called heavenly officer, local officer and water officer. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Shangyuan is the birthday of Emperor Tianguan. The main duty of Tianguan is to bless, so the people prepare sacrifices to worship Tianguan early in the morning and pray for blessing.

(2) ancestor worship in Lantern Festival

Eating Lantern Festival may have started in the Song Dynasty, but it was called "floating Zi Yuan" at that time, and it was renamed "Yuanxiao" in the Ming Dynasty. Every family makes Yuanxiao. In ancient times, this was a good omen for the first year. Eating glutinous rice balls symbolizes family happiness. After the Lantern Festival is done, it is a happy reunion to respect the ancestors first and then have a family reunion to eat.

(3) Flower lanterns

Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival, so lanterns are the central activity of Lantern Festival. Folk call lanterns "drum lanterns" because the lanterns mentioned by children in the past are like drums and gongs. There are many kinds of Lantern Festival lanterns, including temple lanterns, shop lanterns and children's drum lanterns. There are many styles, which can be basically divided into two categories: first, image lights, such as knife-closing lights, rabbit lights, fruit lights, half lights and so on. The other is a movable lantern based on folk stories. At present, most of them are electric lanterns, such as the champion parade, the Eight Immortals celebrating their birthdays, and the Taoyuan ceremony, which all show the national traditions of loyalty, filial piety and justice.

(4) Solve riddles on lanterns

In the past, riddles were held in temples, because temples were places where people gathered in their leisure time, and there were riddles competitions and exhibitions. Therefore, in the past, a riddle was listed under the lantern, and the riddle on the lantern was solved by the relevant personnel in the temple at midnight. The scene was lively and warm, because it was a good sign to go home with the prize. Modern lantern riddles are displayed in newspapers and magazines, as well as temple fairs on TV, and some programs are interspersed with lantern riddles. Various forms can meet the different needs of the people. This also reflects the diversity of traditional festivals in modern society.

(5) Dragon and lion dances

There are dragon lanterns in the Lantern Festival all over the country. Dragon is an auspicious mythical animal and a national totem. The early dragon lanterns in Taiwan Province Province, about seven or eight feet long, were tied to bamboo drums. As a dragon-shaped lantern dragon, it lit a dozen candles on the dragon head and tied them to a wooden stick. They were carried away by a dozen people and danced behind the dragon ball next to the faucet, which was called "dragon making". /kloc-On the evening of 0/5, lion groups from all over the country also went out together, and were called "lions" to perform kung fu. Its purpose is to exorcise evil spirits and pray for peace, and it is also a festive significance to celebrate the New Year.

When dancing dragons and lions, gongs and drums are loud and firecrackers are endless, which brings a lively atmosphere to the Lantern Festival.