When is the Lantern Festival in 2019? Why do we eat glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival?

When is the Lantern Festival in 2019? Why do we eat glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival?
Introduction: The Lantern Festival is an important traditional festival, and one of the customs of the Lantern Festival is eating glutinous rice balls. So when is the Lantern Festival in 2019? Why do we eat glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival? The key to a good year begins in spring. For more knowledge about the first month of the lunar calendar, please pay attention to the 2019 first month of the lunar calendar special topic on Shuimoxiansheng.com.

When is the Lantern Festival in 2019?

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (the 15th day of the first lunar month in the Year of the Pig, 7 days away from the 2019 Lantern Festival)
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, Yuan Ye, and Lantern Festival. The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the year. The ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full-moon night of the year. It is also the night when a new year begins and the earth returns to spring. People celebrate this night, which is also a continuation of the celebration of the New Year. [6] Sima Qian created the Taichu Calendar and listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival.
It flourished during the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties. "Book of Sui·Music" states: "Every first month, all nations came to pay tribute, and they would stay until the 15th day in a theater outside Duanmen and inside Jianguomen, which stretched for eight miles, with plays set up as the theater stage." There were tens of thousands of people participating in the singing and dancing, from dusk to dawn, and ending at the end of the day. With the changes of society and times, the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival have undergone great changes, but it is still a traditional Chinese folk festival.

2019 Lunar calendar for the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month:

The 15th day of the first lunar month of the year 2019 (Lunar calendar)
February 19, 2019, Tuesday, Pisces (solar calendar)
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Pray for blessings, get married, migrate, bring in wealth, move into a new house, build a stove, accept a bride, recruit a son-in-law, offer sacrifices, fast and pray, build, seek an heir, lift the groundbreaking ceremony, take up a post, erect pillars, plant, issue a certificate, capture and enroll in school
[Today’s taboos in the almanac]
Repair graves, bury people, set up beds, cut trees, raise beams, take in livestock, build houses, start drilling, travel meridians, break ground, open businesses

Why do we eat glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival?

The meaning of eating tangyuan during the Lantern Festival <br /> 1. The pronunciation of tangyuan. Because the Chinese character for "tangyuan" is similar to "reunion", eating tangyuan on the Lantern Festival symbolizes family reunion, harmony and happiness.
2. The appearance of the glutinous rice balls. Because glutinous rice balls are round in shape, and when they are cooked, they float on the water, which reminds people of a bright moon hanging in the sky. There is a bright moon in the sky, dumplings in the bowl, and every family is reunited, symbolizing reunion and auspiciousness.
3. The taste of glutinous rice balls. Tangyuan is generally made of glutinous rice flour, and the most common one is sweet tangyuan. When a family eats sweet tangyuan on the Lantern Festival, it also symbolizes the happiness and sweetness of the family.
The origin of eating glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival <br /> Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, there was a palace maid named "Yuanxiao" who was secluded in the palace for many years and missed her parents so much that she cried all day long. In order to help her, the doctor Dongfang Shuo lied to Emperor Wu of Han that the God of Fire was ordered by the Jade Emperor to burn Chang'an on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The only way to escape the disaster was to let "Yuanxiao Girl" make a lot of glutinous rice balls, which the God of Fire loved to eat, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and all the subjects would light lanterns and offer sacrifices to her. Emperor Wu of Han approved the request, and the "Yuanxiao" girl finally met her family. Since then, the custom of eating dumplings on the Lantern Festival has spread.

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