Beijing
The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. From the 13th day of the first lunar month to the 17th day of the first lunar month, people in Beijing have to entertain for five days and nights. In the Lantern Festival in old Beijing, the most important activity is to enjoy the lanterns. In the Ming Dynasty, Beijing's lantern market was located in dengshikou, Dongcheng, and there were midnight snacks on both sides of the street, ranging from jewelry and jade articles to daily necessities. All the shops hung lanterns made of silk yarn, burnt beads, bright horns, wheat straw and medulla tetrapanacis for people to watch. By the Qing Dynasty, lantern markets were all over Beijing.
On the Lantern Festival in Yongping Prefecture, Hebei Province, sick women gather under the kiln, which is called "pottery moxibustion". Children cross the bridge, which is called "Du Baie". Some people cut the paper into nine paper ropes, and tied them by hand to make up for the blame, which is called "knot the sheep intestines". Twelve cups were used to store oil and put it into the pot for steaming, so as to predict the sunny and rainy days of this month according to the amount of accumulated water in the cups. Jinghai county shangyuan festival takes big steamed bread as a diet. In Qingyun County, the Lantern Festival, the man asked the five ancestors to teach boxing sticks, and the woman asked Zigu Bu to take the blame.
Shandong Province
People in Zichuan District, Zibo put more river lanterns on the waterfront during the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival in Ningyang County, Tai 'an City sends lanterns to ancestral graves. There is a custom of lighting lanterns in Boxing County, Binzhou City. Boys carry lanterns, walk around the jujube tree six times, and say "Du Lao Du Lao, blossom and bear jujube" six times, which can make the jujube tree harvest. Men, women and children in Ju (j incarnation) County of Rizhao City go for an outing in the wild on the 16th day of the first month, which is called "walking the old face". It is said that walking once a year can keep them young forever.
in Xiangcheng county, Henan province,
Yuanxiao eats wonton soup, which is called "reunion tea". When the bride's family takes her married daughter home for the holiday, when the county Yuanxiao celebrates the lantern festival, all the sick and young people moxibustion stone turtles with fire. If there is a river bridge locally, cross the bridge at the same rate. If there is no bridge, a "flyover" with wooden boards several feet high is called "walking all diseases"
Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province
hosted a banquet for his daughter and son-in-law on the Lantern Festival, which was called "Eating Fifteen". And send lights and oil, which is called "adding oil".
In Wujin District, Jiangsu Province, reeds were tied to form a torch of commendation on the first day of last week, and it was inserted in the field, which was called "Zhao Tian Cai" to predict the morning and evening. The white fire is water, and the red fire is drought. On the Yuan Festival in Yixing, children wore ghost masks and jumped with their feet bent and their shoulders vibrated, which was called "jumping ghosts".
Zhejiang Province
It is said in Hangzhou that the 15th day of the first month is the day of heavenly god blesses the people in Shang Dynasty, and people often lent vegetarian prayers and went to Wu Shan to worship. Haining Lantern Festival is most famous for its exquisite chrysanthemum lanterns. Shangyu county is less than the Lantern Festival in the evening to compete martial arts on the platform. In Jiande County, if someone has a new wife, a wine offering bed will be set up on the Lantern Festival.
Jiangxi Province
Newly-built county people sweep graves and put bamboo as lanterns on Lantern Festival. Every township in Wan 'an County worships the Shenzhou in the Lantern Festival.
The old farmer in Yunmeng County (now Jianghan) in Hubei Province held a torch to shine on Tian Pu at midnight snack, which was called "according to the Jedi silkworm". Children greet God with drums and fields, and predict the future. Wuchang's "dragon-making" will last for three days. All the men, women and children in the village follow the dragon lantern to the neighboring village for dinner, which is called "dragon for wine".