What to do during the Lantern Festival?

What to do during the Lantern Festival?
The Lantern Festival has important significance for the Chinese people. Everyone hopes to have a happy Lantern Festival. How should we celebrate the Lantern Festival and what are the customs? The Fortune Teller website provides you with more information related to the first month of the lunar calendar in 2018. You are welcome to learn more about it! 1. Eating "Yuanxiao" on the Lantern Festival Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a long-standing custom in China.
2. "Sending lanterns" on the Lantern Festival "Sending lanterns" is abbreviated as "sending lanterns", and its actual meaning is sending lanterns to children.
3. Dragon Lanterns on the Lantern Festival The dragon is the totem of China. The Chinese people worship the dragon and regard it as a symbol of good luck.
4. Lion Dance on the Lantern Festival Lion dance, also known as "lion dance", "lion lantern" and "lion dance", is mostly performed during festivals and festive events.
5. Guess riddles on the Lantern Festival. During the Lantern Festival, riddles are posted in various places, hoping that this year will be joyous and peaceful.
6. Stilt walking on the Lantern Festival is usually organized by the masses spontaneously.
7. There were seven sacrifices to the doors and windows of the Lantern Festival in ancient times, and these are two of them.
8. Walking away all diseases during the Lantern Festival is also called touring all diseases, dispersing all diseases, roasting all diseases, walking on bridges, etc. It is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for health.
9. Welcoming Zi Gu, Zi Gu is also called Qi Gu, and in the north it is mostly 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.
10. Chasing away rats. This ceremony is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, families who raise silkworms cook a big pot of sticky porridge. Some even cover it with a layer of meat. They put the porridge in bowls and place them on the ceilings and corners where mice are active. They put the porridge in bowls and chant something while putting it in their mouths, cursing the mice that they will have a miserable death if they eat silkworms again.

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