Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival among the traditional festivals in China. In the feudal traditional society, Lantern Festival is a great opportunity for unmarried men and women to get to know each other. Traditional society does not allow young girls to go out freely, but they can go out to play together on holidays. Lantern Festival lanterns are just an opportunity to make friends, and unmarried men and women can also find their own partners by the way.
During the Lantern Festival, it is also the time for young men and women to meet their lovers. Therefore, Lantern Festival can be said to be the authentic Valentine's Day in China, rather than the Tanabata which some people imagine superficially. In Taiwan Province Province, there is also a traditional custom that unmarried women who steal onions or vegetables at midnight will marry a good husband, commonly known as "stealing onions and marrying a good wife" and "stealing vegetables and marrying a good husband". A girl who wants a happy marriage should steal onions or vegetables from the garden at midnight and look forward to a happy family in the future.
Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, is one of the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "dawn", which happened to be the first full moon in a year, so it was called the Lantern Festival.
Lantern Festival began in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth day of the first month to be designated as the Lantern Festival. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month (Taiyi: the God in charge of everything in the universe). When Sima Qian created the taichu calendar Law, he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.
Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, liking solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival.
Ancient literati recorded the lively scene of Lantern Festival with poems. In ancient times, the Lantern Festival was full. The full moon is at the beginning of the year, and everyone eats glutinous rice balls! Let's relive the grand occasion of the ancient Lantern Festival in this festive atmosphere.