Introduction to the origin of hanging lanterns during the Lantern Festival

#元xiaojie# Introduction The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. Lantern viewing began in ancient times when people held torches in the countryside to drive away insects and beasts, hoping to reduce pest damage and pray for a good harvest. The following is a compilation of the origins of hanging lanterns during the Lantern Festival. Welcome to read!

1. Introduction to the origin of hanging lanterns during the Lantern Festival

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "xiao", so it is called the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. For the Lantern Festival. The 15th day of the first lunar month is the first full-moon night of the year. It is also the night when the Yuan Dynasty begins and the earth returns to spring. People celebrate this and it is also the continuation of celebrating the New Year. The Lantern Festival is also called the "Shangyuan Festival".

According to Chinese folk tradition, on this night when the bright moon hangs high in the sky, people light up thousands of colored lanterns to celebrate. They go out to enjoy the moon, light lanterns and set off flames, guess lantern riddles, and eat Yuanxiao. The family reunites and celebrates the festival together, and it is a joyful time.

The Lantern Festival is also called the Festival of Lanterns. The custom of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival began in the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, lantern viewing activities became more prosperous. Lanterns were hung everywhere in the palace and on the streets, and tall lantern wheels were built. Lu Zhaolin, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once described the grand occasion of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival in "Watching Lanterns on the Fifteenth Night" about lantern towers and lantern trees: "The stars are falling, leaning against the tower like the moon is hanging."

Modern from the Song Dynasty Paying attention to the Lantern Festival, the lantern viewing activities are more lively. The lantern viewing activities last for five days and the styles of lanterns are also more abundant. In the Ming Dynasty, lantern viewing lasted for 10 consecutive days, making this the longest lantern festival in China. Although the lantern viewing event in the Qing Dynasty only lasted for three days, it was very large-scale and unprecedentedly grand. In addition to lighting lanterns, fireworks were also set off to add to the fun.

"Guessing lantern riddles", also called "playing lantern riddles", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival and appeared in the Song Dynasty. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an, the capital, made riddles during the Lantern Festival, and many people guessed riddles. In the beginning, some good people wrote riddles on slips of paper and pasted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and are interesting, they are very popular among all walks of life in the process of spreading.

It is a folk custom to eat Yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival. Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice, either solid or stuffed. The fillings include bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, various fruit materials, etc. It can be boiled, fried, steamed or fried. At first, people called this food "Fuyuanzi", and later also called "Tangtuan" or "Tangyuan". These names have similar pronunciations to the word "Tuanyuan", which means reunion, symbolizing the reunion, harmony and happiness of the whole family. People also call it "Tuanyuan". This memory of the departed relatives expresses good wishes for future life.

The Lantern Festival in some places also has the custom of "walking all diseases", also known as "roasting all diseases" and "dispersing all diseases". Most of the participants are women. They walk in groups or along the wall. Or cross the bridge or walk in the suburbs, the purpose is to drive away diseases and eliminate disasters.

With the passage of time, there are more and more activities during the Lantern Festival. Many local festivals have added traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern dancing, lion dancing, stilt walking, land boat rowing, Yangko dancing, and Taiping drum playing. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, is not only popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also celebrated year after year in overseas Chinese communities.

2. Why do we eat dumplings during the Lantern Festival?

The fullest and brightest moment of the moon is during the "looking" time. What is "looking"? Every first day of the lunar calendar, the moon moves between the earth and the sun. The illuminated hemisphere of the moon is facing away from the earth. We cannot see the moon. It is called a "new moon", also called a "new moon"; when it arrives On the 15th and 16th days of the lunar calendar, all the bright side of the moon faces the earth, so we see a round moon, which is called a "full moon", also called "looking".

In the era without the help of scientific instruments, the ancients discovered that the "footstep" of the moon before "Wang" was sometimes slower. It might take 16-17 days from "Suo" to "Wang", so it would "The fifteenth moon is sixteen round, or even seventeen round" appears. In the context of pursuing reunion during the New Year, if the moon is not round on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is naturally not perfect. Therefore, there is a custom of celebrating the New Year on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and then eating Lantern Festival on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

Dumplings are eaten during the Chinese New Year. First, because dumplings are shaped like ingots, people eat dumplings during the Spring Festival to mean "bringing in wealth." Second, dumplings are stuffed, which makes it easier for people to wrap various auspicious things. into the stuffing to express people’s wishes for the new year. For example, eating dumplings at midnight on New Year's Eve means "Gengsui Jiaozi". "Zi" means "Zi Shi". "Jiao" and "Jiao" are homophonic, which means "happy reunion" and "good luck". . Eating dumplings on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is of course also meant to celebrate the New Year. Eating dumplings means celebrating the New Year, eating Yuanxiao means reunion and happiness, and the new year will definitely be sweet, peaceful and smooth.

The rural areas of Weibei have not produced rice since ancient times, and wheat noodles are people’s staple food. Therefore, on the Lantern Festival, people here eat dumplings just like the first day of the first lunar month. Weibei people call dumplings "boiled jiaozi" because people here are used to wrapping dumplings into triangles. That’s why it’s called “cooking coins”.

People in northern China eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year, and Shandong does the same, but the way of eating them is different. Jiaodong eats four meals of dumplings during the Chinese New Year, the first meal on the off-year, the second meal on the 30th night, the third meal on the second day of the first lunar month, and the fourth meal on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Dumplings can be divided into northern and southern schools, each with its own differences in dumpling skins, fillings and cooking methods.

Southern dumplings are small in shape, with thin and slippery wrappers, and the fillings are mainly pork. As a snack, you can also add fresh shrimp, crab roe, mushrooms, and fungus, and cook it to make soup.

Compared with southern dumplings, the thickness of northern dumpling skins is 2-3mm. When you pull it up, the skins should be full of elasticity. When you eat them, they should be smooth and tough, with a floury aroma. The edges of the dumplings should not be pleated when making them, so that they will not be too thick when eaten and the meat juice will not leak out easily. In terms of fillings, the proportion of vegetables and meat should be even. There should be vegetables and meat, and the ratio should be one to one. If there are too few vegetables, it will not be fragrant enough, and if there are too many meats, it will be too fat. The meat filling should be plump enough so that it does not spread easily.

To determine whether northern dumplings are qualified, the first thing to look at is their appearance. Only when they are plump, smooth and in the shape of an ingot can they be considered qualified with a lot of stuffing. In terms of how to eat it, the sauce that goes with northern dumplings is garlic vinegar sauce, which is both irritating and stale. As for the bowl of dumpling soup, you drink it after eating the dumplings. The non-Southern dumplings are placed in the soup as above. Because northerners believe that dumplings must be boiled in water and eaten without soup to retain their original flavor. After eating the dumplings, drink a bowl of the original soup that has cooked the dumplings, which can help digestion.

3. Lantern Festival Junior High School Composition

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is our country’s traditional festival - the Lantern Festival.

The two days of ice and snow blocked all the trails, but could not dampen people's enthusiasm for celebrating the festival. As night falls, the lights of thousands of houses are bright and bright, and the red lanterns reflect the brilliant and shining moon. The high moon, the deep love, gently caressed how many pairs of looking up eyes; the banging firecrackers, the gorgeous flowers, the deafening sound of cannons trembled a few drops of lovesickness tears?

This In this happy and peaceful town, every day of the Spring Festival is drowned by the sound of firecrackers, especially during the Lantern Festival!

As soon as the bright moonlight cast its light on the earth, loud noises came from far and near. came dancing. Gradually, the sound became denser and more violent like a tide. Colorful displays soared into the sky, clumps of flames burned into the sky, fireworks bloomed in the sky, and loud noises shook the clouds and fields. Waves of huge waves crashed over, and storms rolled in crazily. This momentum was like thousands of troops shouting, like hundreds of millions of flowers frequently offering their fragrance. Looking at the sky full of beauty and colors, it feels like you are in a fairyland or in a divine valley. The wisps of fragrance make your heart flutter! If the moon is an eternal poem, the sky full of fireworks is an ever-changing painting.

Suddenly, there was a rare silence. But in an instant, a golden and tiny thin strip slipped into the smoke-filled sky. Bang, a huge and brilliant firework bloomed proudly in the empty sky.

It is so beautiful, so dazzling, the bright red and green blend together, like a peach blossom contrasted with green, lighting up the whole earth! The big lanterns hanging in every house were suddenly dimmed, and were blown away by its powerful The brilliance conquered! Before the flowers were flat, the flowers rose again, and another firework bloomed in its afterglow. It was golden, not very beautiful, and made people feel very tasteless. The faint golden threads were suddenly scattered, Suddenly it was generous and brilliant, and suddenly became sparkling and brilliant, flashing "whispering", and more and more, like the stars in the summer sky, and like thousands of little golden pigs flapping their ears. In a blink of an eye, this beautiful firework was about to lose its petals and disperse its fragrance, but another firework bloomed again with golden chrysanthemums, continuing the beauty of the previous one. Just like this, a chrysanthemum is fragrant and thousands of flowers are showing their petals. They continue their splendid appearance with their disappearance. Their gold is dazzling and bright as the sun, which makes people breathtaking and speechless!

How can you see the beautiful flowers in the spring garden? After a while, my eyes were confused and my ears were ringing. Maybe it was the white snow that blocked people's enthusiasm for lion dances, lantern viewing, quizzes and stilts, but the colorful fireworks in the sky turned them into "colorful snow paintings"!

4. Lantern Festival Junior High School Composition

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. It falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. "The Lantern Festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the New Year is celebrated with great success." The annual Lantern Festival is coming, and every household is welcoming it with smiling faces.

Every household is rushing to make "Yuanxiao" during the Lantern Festival. I think Yuanxiao is actually the same as glutinous rice balls. They are all so round and white, like little chubby little dolls. I think it’s fun to wrap Yuanxiao. I put various fillings in the Yuanxiao: sesame, bean paste, longan, nuts, etc., and then wrap it up. I think the word "yuan" in "Yuanxiao" is homophonic to the word "yuan" in Tuanyuan. It probably means that the yuanxiao must be rolled into a round shape, and then the wrapped yuanxiao should be put into a pot to cook. In this way, the Lantern Festival is ready, and every family gathers together to eat the Lantern Festival. Just like this sentence, "Have fun with the Lantern Festival, cook the Lantern Festival, reunite your flesh and blood, and be full of joy."

On the Lantern Festival, you can also watch lanterns. The streets are decorated with lights and colorful decorations everywhere. The whole street looks like a wedding, lively and beautiful. On this day, you can also guess lantern riddles and stick pieces of lantern riddle paper under the lanterns. You can use your brain, watch the lanterns, and get unexpected gifts. It’s really a multi-purpose event! The Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival. , listening to my mother say that the Lantern Festival is still China's "Valentine's Day". On this day, couples hold hands and go to watch lanterns and performances together. Laughter filled the whole street, and happiness filled everyone's hearts.

The most exciting thing on the Lantern Festival is the fireworks display. There were many people on the street, and everyone was standing to watch the fireworks. The person setting off the fireworks came, he lit the fireworks, and the "bang bang" started to go off. Look, a mouse-like firework shot up into the sky. As soon as it exploded, colorful dots flew in the sky. After a while, they disappeared again. Immediately afterwards, another flower flew up and fell from the sky like a meteor shower, just like a goddess scattering flowers... There were more and more people, the laughter became louder and louder, and the "flowers" became more and more beautiful... ...Everyone was immersed in the Lantern Festival night with laughter and laughter.

Every family gathered together during the Lantern Festival. When they were tired and sleepy, they fell into a wonderful dreamland. I think people will also laugh happily.

5. Lantern Festival Junior High School Composition

"On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there are lanterns during the flowering period. There are too many lanterns to count..." I recited what I wrote Poetry, walking in the bright moonlight, jumping up and down with my parents to the Haiming Road Pedestrian Street to watch the lanterns.

I stood in front of the door and looked up into the pedestrian street. I saw a sea of ​​people in the pedestrian street, and the crowd was moving slowly like a giant dragon. There are countless colorful lanterns above, which are really like the dense stars in the sky. There are really people among the lights, and there are lights among the people!

Our family followed the crowded flow of people to the pedestrian street. inside.

Ha! There are quite a lot of lanterns, big and small, including the "Birthday Star Lantern", "Dragon Pillar Lantern", "Dragon Playing Umbrella Skills", "Bajie Opera Pole" and rows of antique palace lanterns. Poetic, exquisite and unique, it is really a work of art!

Suddenly, a maroon "horse" appeared in front of me. I saw it carrying auspicious clouds, raising its front hooves, making a long cry, and trying to run forward. There was a slogan on each side of the lamp. The left side is self-reliance, the right side is hard work, the top side is the revitalization of Baicheng, and the bottom side is stability and unity. Looking at this "horse", I thought: "Our great motherland will surely gallop with thousands of horses in the first Year of the Horse in the 21st century, making rapid progress and prospering."

What moved me the most The most interesting one is the "Mickey Mouse Turning Lantern" in front of Baixin Shoes Mall. "Mickey Mouse", who is usually funny and funny, was dressed up very beautifully today, as if he had come specially to participate in the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival. It holds colorful flowers in its right hand and raises its left hand high, as if to say hello to everyone. Suddenly, I found that the tail of "Mickey Mouse" exploded into a flower, which shocked us. It turned out that this was a surprise deliberately given by the designer. "Hahaha" the audience burst into laughter... …Everyone was immersed in joy

Finally, we came to the most attractive "three-dimensional traffic bridge" light of this year's lantern festival. In front of a "high mountain", "overpasses", ring roads, and train tracks form a prosperous scene of booming traffic. Long trains carry various goods to various parts of the motherland. Cars of all sizes were driving on the "ring road"... everything was so orderly. Looking at this lamp, we seemed to see the prospect of Baicheng, the Pearl of the Prairie. This lamp reflects the ingenuity of the people of our city and the great achievements of the motherland's reform.

The full moon hangs high in the sky, and the night is already very late. The pedestrian street is still as lively as that day, with endless laughter and laughter. Because I have to go to school tomorrow, I had to reluctantly leave the pedestrian street, but the unique lanterns and the smiling faces still appeared in front of me...