What are the customs of Hubei Lantern Festival?
Solving riddles on lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is a Lantern Festival activity added after the Southern Song Dynasty. Lantern riddles first developed from lantern riddles, which were hung on lanterns for people to guess and shoot, and began in the Southern Song Dynasty. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life.
2. Dragon Lantern Festival
Dragon Lantern Festival is the highlight of Xiaogan Lantern Festival. From the eighth day, people tied dragons, lions, floats, bamboo horses, stilts and platforms. On the fifteenth day of the first month, men, women and children go out to have fun and sing all kinds of colorful words. For example, "Old people live longer, fewer people are safe, family affairs are satisfactory, the four seasons are safe, the grain is abundant, the deer and crane are in the same spring, the seven stars turn to fight, the Eight Immortals come to the door, wealth lasts for a long time, and ten blessings are complete" and other auspicious words.
3. Eiko Valley
In the folk, there used to be a traditional custom of inviting Zigu Ce Shen on the 15th day of the first month. Worship Zi Gu and God sericulture. At the same time divination and other things.
Zi Ying Valley, also known as "Toilet Valley" and "Hangsan Valley". Zi Guyuan is a concubine. Because the original wife was jealous, she was killed in the toilet on the fifteenth day of the first month. Because of the kindness of the Jade Emperor, she was named Ce Shen.
Step 4 eat yuanxiao
Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao".
Step 5 send lanterns
Sending lanterns is also called sending lanterns to children. In ancient times, before the Lantern Festival, newlyweds always received lanterns from their parents. Because lanterns are homophonic with Ding, it means that their daughters will be able to import more flowers and the population will flourish in the new year. Now there are many such scenes in many TV dramas, where women put lanterns in the river.