The first lunar month on the 15th, is China's traditional Lantern Festival. The first month is a lunar January, the ancients called "Xiao," and on the 15th is the first year of a full moon night, so that fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival.
Also known as little New Year's Day,Yuan Xi or Light Festival，the first after the Spring Festival, an important festival.
Lantern Festival originated in the "Torch Festival", the Han people in the countryside, holding torches field driven worm beast, hoping to reduce pests, praying to have a good harvest. Even today, people in some parts of southwest China are still on the first month 15th reed torches made of wood or tree branches, holding torches in groups, or drying in farms dance field. Since Sui, Tang, Song ,Singing and dancing were enough to reach tens of thousands of participants, from dusk until dawn, to covertly while the strike. As society and the times when changes in the customs of the Lantern Festival already has made significant changes, but is still a Chinese folk traditional festivals.
Point of origin Lantern
Legend in a long time ago, beast a lot of harm to people and livestock around, people have organized to fight them, there is a hardship for the lost and landed divine Bird, but the accident was unaware of the hunters to a shot of.
After the Emperor of Heaven knows very angry edicts have come immediately ordered so heavenly in the first month on the 15th to the earth and set fires to burn them altogether human and property of people and livestock. The Emperor of Heaven's daughter, good-natured, could not bear suffering of innocent people, they risk their lives, secretly steered the clouds come to earth to tell people the news. Everyone heard the news, his head rang like a torpedo. Scared and confused.
After a very long time, only the old people come up with a sure way out, he said: "In the first month 14, 15, on the 16th three days, each household are at home and decorated, point ring firecrackers, fireworks display. So As a result, the Emperor of Heaven will be that people have been burned to death. "
People listened to all nod yes, then split up ready to go by. To the fifteenth day this evening, the Emperor of Heaven looked down and found earth a red light, noise deafening, three consecutive nights were the case, thought it was fire burning flames, hearts greatly. In this way the people keep their lives and property. To commemorate this success, from every fifteenth day, every household hung lanterns, and fireworks to mark the occasion.
Lantern Festival custom: guess riddles, playing dragon lantern, stilt, lion dance, draw Han Boat, Festival Gate, Festival households, Expulsion mouse, to send Children lights, receive Zi Gu, extrude all diseases, stealing food and so on.
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
lunar New Year's Day
The other words:Spring Festival ,the Spring Festival,Chinese New Year's Day.
Chinese New Year is the most solemn , distinctive folk tradition of festivals, and the most lively of an ancient festival.Generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first month who started the first day of the year, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year."However, in civil society, traditional sense of the Spring Festival is the eighth day from the twelfth lunar month, or the twelfth lunar month 23 or 24, until the fifteenth day, of which New Year's Eve and the first month started this as a climax.During the Spring Festival, China's Han and many other ethnic minorities to be held in a variety of activities to mark the occasion. These activities are worship deities, and pay homage to their ancestors, satisfied to welcome good fortune, to pray for good harvest as the main content. Rich variety of activities, with strong ethnic characteristics. The Spring Festival in Tianjin, there is the habit of hanging Chinese knot.
Spring Festival is the most important festival in the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, white, mountains, Hezhen, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li and dozens of ethnic minorities also had the custom of Chinese New Year, but in the form of festivals each with their own national characteristics.
A kind of legend:
In ancient times, there is a monster called "Year" , have length antennae and ferocious."Year" lived in the sea for many years, every New Year's Eve to climb cliffs, and devour livestock lethal.Therefore, every New Year's Eve , people young and old who stockaded village fled to the mountains to escape the "Year" animal's damage.
New Year's Eve one year, an elderly begging come from the village outside, to escape the "year", villagers a scene of panic haste,only an old lady give some food to the elderly,and advised him to escape the "Year" into the mountains soon.The old man pulled up to the mustache smiled: "If you let me stay at home one night, I have to put 'Year' animal away." The old lady still to persuade the old man,elderly just laughed.
Middle of the night, The "Year" broke into the village.It found that the atmosphere of village unlike in previous years:The old lady's home ,the door paste large red paper, brightly lit candle inside.The beast shake the whole body and shouted.Close to the door, a sudden "pop pops" noise came from the yard."Year" trembling and then not forward scrape together. It turned out that "year" are most afraid of red, fire and exploding.At this time, the door of the house wide open, we saw the elderly people wearing red clothes, laughing in the yard."Year" scaring and jump up in panic to escape.The next day,people who asylum back see the village safe very surprised.At this time, the old lady rushed off to tell the folks which the begging for the elderly promise.This incident spread around the village soon,all people are aware of the way which to eviction The "Year".From then on New Year's Eve every year, every household paste red couplets, firecrackers; every household brightly lit candle.This customs have spread and became the most solemn of traditional Chinese folk festival.
Chinese New Year is the most solemn , distinctive folk tradition of festivals, and the most lively of an ancient festival.Generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first month who started the first day of the year, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year."However, in civil society, traditional sense of the Spring Festival is the eighth day from the twelfth lunar month, or the twelfth lunar month 23 or 24, until the fifteenth day, of which New Year's Eve and the first month started this as a climax.During the Spring Festival, China's Han and many other ethnic minorities to be held in a variety of activities to mark the occasion. These activities are worship deities, and pay homage to their ancestors, satisfied to welcome good fortune, to pray for good harvest as the main content. Rich variety of activities, with strong ethnic characteristics. The Spring Festival in Tianjin, there is the habit of hanging Chinese knot.
Spring Festival is the most important festival in the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, white, mountains, Hezhen, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li and dozens of ethnic minorities also had the custom of Chinese New Year, but in the form of festivals each with their own national characteristics.
A kind of legend:
In ancient times, there is a monster called "Year" , have length antennae and ferocious."Year" lived in the sea for many years, every New Year's Eve to climb cliffs, and devour livestock lethal.Therefore, every New Year's Eve , people young and old who stockaded village fled to the mountains to escape the "Year" animal's damage.
New Year's Eve one year, an elderly begging come from the village outside, to escape the "year", villagers a scene of panic haste,only an old lady give some food to the elderly,and advised him to escape the "Year" into the mountains soon.The old man pulled up to the mustache smiled: "If you let me stay at home one night, I have to put 'Year' animal away." The old lady still to persuade the old man,elderly just laughed.
Middle of the night, The "Year" broke into the village.It found that the atmosphere of village unlike in previous years:The old lady's home ,the door paste large red paper, brightly lit candle inside.The beast shake the whole body and shouted.Close to the door, a sudden "pop pops" noise came from the yard."Year" trembling and then not forward scrape together. It turned out that "year" are most afraid of red, fire and exploding.At this time, the door of the house wide open, we saw the elderly people wearing red clothes, laughing in the yard."Year" scaring and jump up in panic to escape.The next day,people who asylum back see the village safe very surprised.At this time, the old lady rushed off to tell the folks which the begging for the elderly promise.This incident spread around the village soon,all people are aware of the way which to eviction The "Year".From then on New Year's Eve every year, every household paste red couplets, firecrackers; every household brightly lit candle.This customs have spread and became the most solemn of traditional Chinese folk festival.
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