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Is the Lantern Festival 2019 a national legal holiday? The custom of Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first month. Our custom is to eat Tangyuan, which means round and round. We also need to watch lanterns and guess riddles. So is the Lantern Festival a national legal holiday? Will it be a holiday? After 15 years, it will be light, and it's time to stop working.

No holiday for 2019 Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival will not be off in 2019.

The 15th day of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival in China. Because the first month is also called Yuanyue, the night of the 15th day of the first month of the year is the first full moon night, 'Xiao' means' Night ', so this festival is called yuanxiao Festival. Lantern Festival is also known as Shangyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival and Lantern Festival.

The custom of Lantern Festival

Chinese people have Lantern Festival. The custom of watching lanterns, as the saying goes, is to make lanterns on the 15th day of the first month. This custom originated from Taoism's "three yuan theory": the 15th of the first month of the lunar calendar is Shangyuan Festival, the 15th of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the 15th of October is Xiayuan Festival. In charge of the three yuan, they are the "heaven", "Earth" and "people". The heaven officials are happy, so the Lantern Festival should be lit. Emperor Ming (58-75) of the Eastern Han Dynasty believed in Buddhism. He ordered the court and temples to light lanterns on the Lantern Festival to worship the Buddha, and the common people should also hold lamps to worship the Buddha. In this way, the Lantern Festival became a grand folk festival. Through the inheritance of dynasties, there are more and more Festival lights, and more and more lamp items, including mirror lights, Phoenix Lights, glass lights and so on. In addition to lighting, people also set off fireworks to boost the fun. The beautiful scene of the Lantern Festival is described as "flaming trees and silver flowers all night long".

Lantern Festival also has an elegant game - guessing riddles. Lantern riddle is a unique Chinese character game. It hides the truth of things or words in seemingly unrelated beautiful rhymes or popular characters, writes a note and pastes it on the lantern for the spectators to guess. Some are similar to the 'crossword riddle' published in some Western newspapers and magazines. Guessing lantern riddles first appeared in Song Dynasty. In Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), there are many people who make and guess riddles during the Lantern Festival. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and have great interest, they are popular among all levels of society in the process of spreading.

Lantern Festival 2019

The most representative food of Lantern Festival is Lantern Festival. Yuanxiao is also called "Tangyuan" and "Yuanzi". It is said that the shape of Lantern Festival symbolizes family reunion, and eating it means family happiness and good luck in the new year.

There are many folk sayings about the origin of the custom of eating yuanxiao. It is said that at the end of the spring and Autumn period, when King Zhaowang of Chu passed the Yangtze River on his way back to the country, he saw something floating on the surface of the river, white and yellowish in color, red as rouge inside, and sweet in taste. People didn't know what it was, so King Zhao sent someone to ask Confucius. Confucius said: 'the duckweed fruit is also a sign of rejuvenation. 'because this day happens to be the 15th day of the first month, so every day after that, King Zhao ordered his servants to imitate the fruit and cook it with hawthorn stuffing. Another way of saying is that the original name of the Lantern Festival was Tang yuan. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty arrived, there was a palace maid named Yuan Xiao who was very good at making Tang yuan. Since then, the world has been named after this palace maid. The earliest record of eating Yuanxiao on Yuanxiao Festival can be found in Song Dynasty. At that time, it was called "floating round", "round", "lactose yuan" and "sugar yuan". According to the records of historical materials, the Lantern Festival, as the food to celebrate the Lantern Festival, began in the Song Dynasty. Because the Lantern Festival must eat "Yuanzi", so people use the name of the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival 2019

Lantern Festival is a popular custom activity in China. This custom began in the Han Dynasty and reached the Tang Dynasty. The activities of light appreciation are more prosperous. The palace and the streets are decorated with lights everywhere. Tall light wheels, light buildings and light trees are also to be built. There are many kinds of lanterns in different places, which have their own characteristics. In Shanghai, lanterns should be hung in every household, mastlights should be lit on the berthed ships, and "tower lights" should be set up in front of the temple, that is, a high pole should be set up, long ropes should be tied, and lights should be hung from the bottom to the upper layer. It looks like a pagoda. The tower light is most famous for the "bridge tower" erected in Suzhou. Before the festival, the local people will erect a tall mast on the bridge, and then tie a long rope along the front and back of the bridge, hanging the light from the bottom to the upper layer, which is very spectacular. In Miaoli, Taiwan, in addition to the lights, people will make 'Kongming lights' with five-color paper, which will be lit and put in the air.

When people hang lanterns, they often have riddles under or on the lanterns for passers-by to guess and enjoy. This custom activity is a project added after the Lantern Festival, which is said to have appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. At first, only good people wrote riddles on paper and pasted them on lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can inspire wisdom and interest, more and more people are guessing riddles, so they are popular with people and gradually spread down.