Is there a holiday for the Lantern Festival? Is it a legal holiday?
The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year, the Yuanxiao Festival or the Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals of China, the regions in the Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. People like to reunite and celebrate the Lantern Festival. Is there a holiday for the Lantern Festival in 2018? For more details about the 2018 Lunar New Year calendar, please visit the Fortune Teller website for consultation!When is the Lantern Festival?The 15th day of the first lunar month of the year 2018 (Lunar calendar)Friday, March 2, 2018 Pisces (Gregorian calendar) 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Marrying, breaking ground, traveling, taking up a post, accepting money, hiding treasure, seeking a son, seeking heirs, and governing the way [Today's taboos in the almanac] Raising beams and erecting pillars, offering sacrifices and praying for blessings, planting, digging canals and releasing water; building houses, constructing bridges and dams, opening warehouses and seeking medical treatment; opening markets, setting up tickets, meridians, admitting livestock, breaking ground, drilling, burials, moving people into new homes and burning incense. The Lantern Festival is an important traditional festival in my country, but it is not a legal holiday, so there is no holiday on the Lantern Festival and highway access is not free. Statutory holidays in 2018:1. New Year's Day: January 1 is a holiday, which is combined with the weekend.2. Spring Festival: February 15 to 21 will be a holiday, a total of 7 days. Work on February 11 (Sunday) and February 24 (Saturday). 3. Qingming Festival: April 5th to 7th are holidays, a total of 3 days. Go to work on April 8th (Sunday). 4. Labor Day: From April 29 to May 1, there will be a holiday, a total of 3 days. Go to work on April 28th (Saturday). 5. Dragon Boat Festival: June 18 is a holiday, which is combined with the weekend. 6. Mid-Autumn Festival: September 24th is a holiday, which is combined with the weekend. 7. National Day: October 1 to 7 will be a holiday, a total of 7 days. Work on September 29 (Saturday) and September 30 (Sunday). What are the customs of the Lantern Festival?Eating Yuanxiao is eaten on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. "Yuanxiao" as a food has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival became popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Fuyuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao". Businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, also known as "tangyuan", is filled with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, osmanthus, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc. It is wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape. It can be meat or vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be cooked in soup, fried, or steamed, symbolizing reunion and happiness. The glutinous rice balls in Shaanxi are not wrapped but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour and then boiled or fried. They are hot and round.The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. During this festival, people have the custom of hanging, lighting and watching lanterns, so it is also called the Lantern Festival. Playing with lanterns is a traditional festival custom of the Lantern Festival, which originated in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the custom of lighting lanterns became popular and was passed down to later generations. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the climax of the annual lantern and fireworks festival. That's why the Lantern Festival is also called the "Festival of Lanterns". In Shanxi's county towns and even villages and towns, which are densely populated and prosperous areas, before the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the streets are hung with lanterns, flowers are in bloom and lights are swaying, reaching a climax on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. "Watching lanterns" on the 15th day of the first lunar month has become a popular activity among the people of Shanxi. On the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month, red lanterns are hung high in the streets and alleys, including palace lanterns, animal head lanterns, revolving lanterns, flower lanterns, bird lanterns, etc., which attract people to watch the lanterns. In the Taiyuan area, the lanterns of Taigu County are very famous. Taigu's lanterns are famous for their wide variety, exquisite workmanship and attractive appearance. Guessing lantern riddles, also known as playing lantern riddles, is a traditional folk cultural and entertainment form unique to China with rich national style. It is a special activity of the Lantern Festival that has been passed down since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional people would hang up colorful lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some people wrote riddles on pieces of paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten the wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded to them, and guessing riddles gradually became an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival. Riddles add to the festive atmosphere and showcase the ancient working people’s wisdom and wisdom and their yearning for a better life. Dragon lantern performance is also called dragon lantern dance or dragon dance. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor period, in a large-scale song and dance called "Qingjiao", there appeared an image of a human playing a dragon head with a bird body. Later, a dance scene of six dragons interweaving with each other was choreographed. The first recorded dragon dance was in the "Fu of Western Capital" by Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty. The author gave a vivid description of the dragon dance in the narration of a hundred plays. According to the "Book of Sui·Music Records", during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, the "Yellow Dragon Change" performance, which was similar to the dragon dance in various acrobatics, was also very exciting and dragon dance became popular in many places in China. The Chinese nation worships the dragon and regards it as a symbol of good luck. Stilt walking is a popular mass performance among the people. Stilt walking is a type of acrobatics in ancient China and appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in China is in the Liezi Shuo Fu chapter: "In Song there was a man named Lan Zi, who used his skills to compete with Song Yuan. Song Yuan summoned him and showed him his skills. Lion dance is an excellent Chinese folk art. During the Lantern Festival or gatherings and celebrations, people perform lion dance to add to the fun. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, became popular during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and has a history of more than a thousand years. "Lion dance" originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. It is also known as "Lion Dance" and "Taiping Music". It is usually performed by three people. Two of them dress up as lions, one acts as the lion's head, one acts as the lion's body and hind legs, and the other acts as the lion's leader. There are two types of dance: civil and martial. The civil dance shows the lion's tameness, with movements such as shaking hair and rolling. The martial lion dance shows the lion's ferocity, with movements such as leaping, kicking high, and rolling colorful balls. Rowing the land boat Rowing the land boat, according to folklore, is to commemorate Dayu, who made great contributions to flood control. Land boat rowing is also called land boat running, which is to imitate the movement of a boat on land. Most of the people who perform land boat running are girls. The land boat is not a real boat. It is made of two thin boards, sawn into a boat shape, tied with bamboo and wood, and covered with colorful cloth. It is tied around the girl's waist. It is like sitting in a boat. She holds oars in her hands and makes rowing gestures while running, singing local tunes and dancing at the same time. This is land boat rowing. Sometimes there is another man dressed as a passenger on the boat, and his partner in the performance is mostly dressed as a clown, using all kinds of funny actions to amuse the audience. Land boat rowing is popular in many areas of China. There were "seven sacrifices" in ancient times, namely sacrifices to doors and sacrifices to households, and these are two of them. The method of sacrifice is to insert a willow branch above the door, insert a pair of chopsticks into a bowl of bean porridge, or directly place wine and meat in front of the door. Chasing away rats is a traditional folk activity during the Lantern Festival, which began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. This is mainly said to people who raise silkworms. Because mice often eat large numbers of silkworms at night, people say that if you feed mice with rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they will stop eating silkworms. "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" said that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a god came down to a family surnamed Chen and said to them: If you can offer sacrifice to me, you will have a good harvest of silkworms. Later it became a custom. Sending lanterns to children is referred to as "sending lanterns" or "sending flower lanterns". That is, before the Lantern Festival, the daughter's family sends flower lanterns to the family of the newly married daughter, or relatives and friends send lanterns to the family of a newly married couple without children, in order to pray for a good omen of having a child, because "lantern" and "ding" are homophones. This custom exists in many places. In Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, lanterns are sent between the 8th and 15th day of the first lunar month. In the previous year, a pair of large palace lanterns and a pair of painted glass lanterns are sent, hoping that the daughter will be blessed with good fortune after marriage and give birth to a son soon. If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the large palace lanterns, one or two pairs of small lanterns are also sent, wishing the daughter a safe pregnancy. Welcoming Zi Gu Zi Gu is also called Qi Gu, and in the north she is often called Toilet Gu or Keng San Gu. According to ancient folk customs, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people would welcome the toilet goddess Zi Gu and offer sacrifices to her, and predict silkworms and other matters. Legend has it that Zi Gu was originally a concubine of a family. She was envied by the eldest wife and was killed in the toilet on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. She became the toilet god. On the night of the Zigu Festival, people would make a life-size portrait of Zigu out of straw and cloth, and worship her in the pigpen between toilets at night. This custom is popular in all parts of the north and south, and was recorded as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Get rid of all diseases "Walking away all diseases", also known as touring all diseases, dispersing all diseases, roasting all diseases, walking on a bridge, etc., is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for health. On the night of the Lantern Festival, women make appointments to go out together. They walk together and cross every bridge they see, believing that this can cure diseases and prolong life. Walking away all diseases has been a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some people do it on the 15th day, but most of them do it on the 16th day. On this day, women dressed in festive attire, went out of their homes in groups, walked across dangerous bridges, climbed up city walls, and touched nails to pray for children, and did not return until midnight. |
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