How do you spend the Lantern Festival in your hometown? Are there any interesting customs or legends? Please write down your hometown name when you answer.
On this day, it is also a festival for married girls to bring their son-in-law, get ready for jiaozi and go back to their parents' home for reunion. In the local area, pay attention to 40% ceremony. This solar term is based on jiaozi, and then three other things are added in pairs, such as two bags of sugar, two bags of vermicelli and two bottles of wine. This is just a form, which truly embodies the meaning of family reunion, yes-man and sweetness.
People have the custom of eating Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival. Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice, solid or stuffed. Filled with bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, various fruit materials and so on. It is often said that dumplings are made. Its eating method has changed from the early staple food "Piao Dumplings", where one person eats several bowls, to the present frying, steaming and frying, and it has become a non-staple food, equivalent to a dish, which is served on the table for everyone to taste.
The real Lantern Festival is in the evening, and eating is also in the evening, hence the word "midnight snack", and now there is also the saying of "midnight snack" here. Imagine that on the first full moon night of the New Year, the whole family is happy, and the * * * Happy Festival is not only a celebration of the reunion of the Spring Festival, but also a continuation of the celebration of the Spring Festival.
After midnight snack, the family will go out for a walk, or walk with other family members. On a bright night, they cross the bridge and cross the intersection. This is the custom of "walking away from all diseases", also called "spreading all diseases". This is not a feudal superstition, here bread contains scientific truth. As we all know, glutinous rice balls are sticky. Eating too much is not easy to digest. If you take a walk after a meal, your stomach function will be enhanced and indigestible food will be digested. In this way, the purpose of eliminating diseases and disasters has been achieved, which is the origin of the folk saying that "you can live 99 if you walk 100 steps after a meal".
The most lively activities of Lantern Festival are lighting lanterns, watching lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns at night.
The full moon is like a day, with bright lights, brilliant fireworks and tourists weaving. The scene is like the fourth Jielu in the early Tang Dynasty who wrote in "Watching Lights at Fifteen Nights" that "the stars set after the Han Dynasty and the moon hung upstairs". Such a wonderful night, such a beautiful scenery, not to mention adults, even children don't want to miss the temptation brought by this colorful lantern, let alone guess the riddle, which not only shows the children's usual knowledge, but also has a small success reward, which can not only enlighten people's wisdom, but also market the products of merchants. This is a good thing, so is killing three birds with one stone. Therefore, Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. It started in the Han Dynasty and has developed to this day.
One more thing, let's be clear. The word "Han" in Lu's poem "Suspected Stars Fall after the Han Dynasty" is our Han River, which proves the inseparable origin of Lantern Festival and Xiangyang from one side.
As time goes by, there are more and more activities for the Lantern Festival. During our local festivals in Xiangyang, traditional folk performances were added, such as sedan chair, dragon lantern, lion dance, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drum. The activity time is also extended from night to day.