When is the Lantern Festival in 2017 and what are the customs?
Introduction: Our country is a typical traditional country with many folk cultural festivals and customs. The Lantern Festival is one of them. So, when is the Lantern Festival in 2017 and are there any customs? Where did the Lantern Festival come from? Now, let’s follow the editor to learn about it. The first month of the lunar calendar is an important month. Let us pay attention to the traditional festivals and solar terms in the first month and have a good start of the month.When is the Lantern Festival in 2017?February 11, 2017, the 15th day of the first lunar month, Saturday, 2017 (Year of the Rooster) Lantern FestivalThe Origin of the Lantern FestivalThe first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the year. The ancients called the night "xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full-moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the Little New Year, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival.The Lantern Festival is not a national holiday. The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. The Lantern Festival began in the reign of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Ming promoted Buddhism. He heard that in Buddhism, monks would view Buddha relics and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. So he ordered that lanterns be lit in the imperial palace and temples on that night to worship Buddha, and ordered both the nobles and common people to hang lanterns. Later, this Buddhist ritual festival gradually became a grand folk festival. This festival has gone through a development process from the palace to the folk, and from the Central Plains to the whole country. During the Han Dynasty, people in the countryside held torches to drive away insects and animals, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a good harvest. To this day, people in some southwestern China still make torches out of reeds or branches on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and dance in groups in fields or threshing grounds with torches held high. It flourished during the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties. There were tens of thousands of people participating in the singing and dancing, which lasted from dusk to dawn and ended at dusk. 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. The real driving force behind the Lantern Festival customs is that it is at a new point in time, and people make full use of this special time period to express their life wishes. Yuanxiao is eaten on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. As a food, "Yuanxiao" has a long history in my country. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival became popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Fuyuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao". Businessmen also gave it a nice name "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 custom of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern fair in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the capital Chang'an was already the largest city in the world with a population of one million and a prosperous society. Under the emperor's personal advocacy, the Lantern Festival became more and more luxurious. After the middle Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a carnival for the whole nation. During the Kaiyuan Period (685-762 AD) of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the Lantern Festival in Chang'an was very grand, with 50,000 lanterns lit and a wide variety of lanterns. The emperor ordered people to build a giant lantern tower, which was 20 rooms wide and 150 feet high. It was dazzling with golden light and extremely spectacular. Summary: Through the above article, we know the time of the Lantern Festival in 2017 and the origin of the Lantern Festival. I hope you will like it. I wish you all a prosperous and smooth new year! After reading this article, there are more exciting contents in the special topic of the first month of the lunar calendar. Let’s take a look! |
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