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This festival of the lanterns where the light is queen closes the cycle of the festivities of the New year. Night festival, one names besides it sometimes " small New an" (xiaoguonian 小過年). The population (nowadays, especially children accompanied by their parents) leaves for a walk at the night fallen a lantern to the hand. Although the traditional models (huadeng 花燈) out of paper enlightened with the candle keep their followers, one finds some increasingly made out of plastic and equipped with piles. The effigies of the characters of cartoons preferred of the young people compete with the traditional reasons (animal and plants, legendary or mythological scenes). Contests of lanterns and riddles are organized in the temples. Certain municipalities envisage processions of luminous tanks.
It is of tradition to eat a soup of yuanxiao (元宵), serves éponyme festival. They are pellets of paste of stuffed Riz (in majority sweetened) cooked with the water, whose round form symbolizes plenitude, the joined together family and the satisfaction of the needs.
The origin of this festival is complex. It continues a very old tradition which divided the year into three parts (yuan 元), the first beginning 15th during the day from the first month with a festival in the honor of the birthday of Tianguandadi, divinity governing the Sky introduced at the time of the Han by the École of the five bushels of rice. This celebration would have grown rich by traditions resulting from the imperial court (lanterns, pellets).
The legends reporting the origin of the festival give a report on the anger of the god of fire threatening to set fire to the capital the 15th day of the first lunar month. An astute person would then have had the idea to make leave all the inhabitants in the street this evening with red lanterns, and to hang some to all the doors, so that the god, believing the city already in prey in the flames, withdraws himself. In the most popular version, the divine threat is a hoax assembled by an imperial adviser in the large heart in order to make it possible a young maidservant of the palate to leave and re-examine its family for one evening.
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