Can I take my children out to play during the Lantern Festival?
Lantern Festival:
Lantern Festival, also known as the first lunar month, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival.
China has a vast territory and a long history, so the customs of celebrating the Lantern Festival are different all over the country, among which eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs.
Yuanxiao originally meant "the night of Shangyuan Festival", because the main activities of Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month were to eat glutinous rice balls and enjoy the moon at night, and later the name of this festival evolved into "Lantern Festival".
On the night of Lantern Festival, the streets are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and people enjoy lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Lantern Festival, which pushes the celebration activities started on New Year's Eve to another climax and becomes a custom handed down from generation to generation.
Yuanxiao was only called the fifteenth day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the full moon when the early festivals were formed, and it was called Yuanxiao or Yuanxiao after Sui. Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, but it was only in the late Tang Dynasty that it was occasionally called Yuanxiao. But since the Song Dynasty, it has also been called Dengxi. In the Qing dynasty, it was also called the Lantern Festival.
The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year, and it is also the night when spring returns to the earth.
On this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting and setting fires, enjoying lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, family reunion and celebrating festivals are all enjoyment.
Can I get a haircut on Lantern Festival?
You can't get a haircut on Lantern Festival.
The older generation can't say that they don't get a haircut in the first month, and their hair is influenced by their parents, so they can't give up, especially the first month is a reunion day.
In order to prevent people from having their hair cut in the first month, there is a folk saying that "Uncle Fang is forbidden in the first month", which is of course superstitious, but in order not to make an exception, it is better to be conservative.
On February 2 nd, the dragon looked up, which was the day to regroup and go into battle lightly. Therefore, on the day when the dragon looks up, his mental outlook is changed, which means that the new year is good and the weather is good, which is a good sign. Therefore, people who know how to get a haircut will get a haircut on this day.
You can if you don't pay attention. If you pay attention, you can't get a haircut until February 2.
In fact, they are all superstitions, but to get a good psychological hint and a good start, we can wait until February 2 when the dragon looks up for a haircut. The day when the dragon looks up is most suitable for haircut, and the omen is good.