4hw.com.cn: after the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival follows closely. The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional Chinese customs. Besides eating the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival also has the custom of guessing riddles and watching lanterns. So why do the Lantern Festival guess riddles? Guess the origin of the lantern riddle. Let's take a look at it together with the small edition of sihai.com.
Lantern Festival riddle is an ancient folk custom of the Han nationality. Guessing riddles is also called playing riddles. This kind of folk culture of Han nationality has been popular since the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, every Lantern Festival in Lin'an, the capital, good people wrote riddles on paper and pasted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and have great interest, they are popular among all walks of life.
Lantern riddles add to the festival atmosphere, showing the wisdom and life yearning of the working people of the ancient Han nationality. On the 15th day of the first month, lamp viewing began on the "Torch Festival". The ancient people held torches in the countryside to drive away insects and animals, hoping to reduce the pests and pray for a good harvest.
To this day, people in some areas of Southwest China still make torches out of firewood or branches on the 15th day of the first month. Groups of people hold torches high and dance in fields or grain drying fields. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been flourishing for a long time. Tens of thousands of people participated in singing and dancing, from dusky Dadan to obscure.
With the changes of society and times, the customs of Lantern Festival have changed a lot, but it is still a traditional festival of Han nationality.