What activities are there for the Lantern Festival?
Enjoy holiday lanterns
Watching lanterns is a pleasure for ordinary people to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and it is also an activity that is still widely circulated. There are many sayings about the origin of the Lantern Festival, and one of the myths and legends is very interesting.
Today, viewing lanterns is still an important activity of the Lantern Festival. On the fifteenth day of the first month, temple fairs and parks all over the country launched lantern viewing activities in succession. At that time, the sky was full of stars, the ground was full of fire trees and silver flowers, and the world was a happy and peaceful scene.
Solve riddles; solve lantern riddles; guess riddles on hanging lanterns
Solve riddles on the lanterns is one of the classic folk activities of Lantern Festival, and it is also a unique way of holiday entertainment in China. Lantern riddles originated from court scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In order to show their talents and entertain themselves, they made a "literary riddle". They are pushing wine and reciting poems and riddles over and over again, which is very interesting.
Now every Lantern Festival, playing riddles is everywhere. I hope this year is festive and safe. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life and have been passed down to this day.
Eat "Yuanxiao"
Eating "Yuanxiao" on Lantern Festival is a traditional custom in China. Yuanxiao, also known as Tangyuan, has a long history as a food in China. In the Song Dynasty, people would eat a novel food after the Lantern Festival. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao".
Yuanxiao is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, osmanthus fragrans, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be both meat and vegetarian with different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion. On the fifteenth day of the first month, people all over the country will make Yuanxiao to celebrate this festival.
set?off?fireworks
In China, setting off fireworks is an indispensable activity to celebrate festivals, and the Lantern Festival is no exception. When colorful fireworks shoot into the sky, the night sky suddenly becomes dazzling, and the ground and the ground of the fire tree and silver flowers form a beautiful picture, which is one of the favorite programs for people to watch during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Dry boating
Rowing a dry boat, folklore is to commemorate Dayu who has made great contributions to water control. Rowing a dry boat, also known as running a dry boat, is an imitation of a boat on land, and the performers are mostly girls. Dry boat is not a real boat. It is made of two thin wooden boards, sawed into a boat shape, tied with bamboo and wood, covered with colored cloth and tied around the girl's waist, just like sitting on a boat, rowing with paddles in hand, singing and jumping while running. This is a dry ship. Sometimes, another man dressed as a boatman performs with his partners, mostly dressed as a clown, and amuses the audience with all kinds of funny actions. Dry boats are very popular in many areas of our country.
Dance dragon lantern
Also known as dragon dance. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance in the suburbs of Qing Dynasty, there was a leading bird image played by a man, and then a dance scene with six dragons interspersed with each other was arranged. The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays. According to the records in Sui Shu Le, Huanglongbian, which was similar to the dragon dance performance in one hundred plays in Yang Di period, was also very wonderful, and dragon dance was very popular in many places in China. The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols.
Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever the Lantern Festival or the * * celebration, people always come to the lion dance to entertain. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a history of 1000 years.
Key points of Yuanxiao health care
1, do proper exercise to improve immunity.
Jogging and stretching, you can also practice some simple health exercises, such as "sitting in the rain in the first month", "drawing circles" and "holding your breath and sweating" (treating colds).
2, the diet should be reasonable and scientific
In spring, the wood is weak, and the spleen and stomach are weak. Don't overeat, it should be light, eat more whole grains, don't eat too cold and too hot, don't eat after getting angry, don't do strenuous exercise after meals, and pay attention to walking and digestion after meals. Eat more dates and make up honey, yam, tremella and adenophora appropriately.
3. Pay attention to cultivating spirit.
Spring qi returns to the liver, which is fond of regulating diarrhea and depressed. Maintain emotional stability. "Several Classics" said: "Think less, think less, desire less, do less, talk less, laugh less, worry less, be happy less, be happy less, be angry less, be good less, be evil less, and this is the foundation of health preservation." Meditation and nourishing the mind can make the liver qi rise and be restrained, which is beneficial to the body and mind. Don't make the liver qi increase too much or not rise or stagnate.
4. Continue to cover the spring to prevent cold and rheumatism.
Before and after the rain, the temperature and water rose, but it was cold.
The weather is changeable, which is one of the seasons with many cold waves all year round, accompanied by a serious phenomenon of "late spring cold", and there is a saying that spring cold freezes cattle.
At this time, the temperature rises and people's pores begin to expand. The sudden arrival of cold air makes people sick easily. Therefore, in addition to peace of mind, we should continue to cover the spring to prevent spring cold and rheumatism.
The Inheritance Significance of Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival and Shangyuan Festival, is on the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year. It originated in the period of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Judging from the traditional Spring Festival culture in China, the Lantern Festival is only one of the important parts of the Spring Festival. The custom of Spring Festival in ancient China lasted for one and a half months. The long Spring Festival has to go through three stages: preparing for the New Year, celebrating the New Year and celebrating the New Year. It was the Spring Festival from the 23rd lunar month to the 15th Lantern Festival in the first month. If we compare the trilogy, the Lantern Festival, the end of the Spring Festival, is the climax of the Spring Festival trilogy in China. Lantern Festival is regarded as the last climax of the Spring Festival, because after this day, people really enter the new year's work, so people all over the country celebrate the Lantern Festival and pray for God to bless the good weather in the coming year.
Lantern Festival has been handed down because of the cultural significance of this festival: reunion, harmony and the pursuit of freedom, which is what we yearn for and our beautiful expectation. Every festival can be handed down because it contains people's wishes and yearning for a better life. After the Dragon Boat Festival was registered as a world cultural heritage by Koreans, many people in China were very angry. Obviously, this is a traditional festival in China, but it is attributed to other countries. Lantern Festival is rich in culture and has a long history, which is unique in the world folk culture. At present, the world dispute of folk festivals is getting more and more fierce. It must be well protected and passed down, so as not to face the crisis of faults. The sense of historical mission shouldered by our new generation is the driving force to promote the inheritance and development of traditional festivals. We inherit not only the traditional festivals of our Chinese nation, but also the intangible cultural spirit of our Chinese nation.