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Lantern, mist flying, moths all over the city.
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Lantern Festival, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, supper is the night, Yuan refers to the beginning of the year of the First Month, Lantern Festival, as the name suggests, this is a festival that is going to happen in the night. When the night comes, it is the time when the sunset rests and the head is asleep, but at the time of the Lantern Festival, people have a sleepless interest.
The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the number of Shangyuan, originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty Wudou Rice Sect. That is, the meaning of taking five buckets can be enlightened. The Shangyuan Tianguan in the Wudou Sect was born on the fifteenth day of the first month, so the Shangyuan Festival is also a day of worship to the gods. The Southern Song Dynasty's "Record of Dreams" says: "The fifteenth yen festival of the first month is the birthday of the blessing of the Shangyuan Heavenly Officials." "Legend has it that the celestial officials rejoice, and for the sake of the gods and immortals to love the lively yahao, the mortals must also be very happy."
Every year on the fifteenth day of the first month, I will think of these few poems, tang su taste of "fire tree silver flower, star bridge iron lock open." Dark dust goes with the horse. The bright moon comes one by one", the Ming dynasty Tang Bohu's "there is no light without the moon, there is no mistake in the person, there is no light in the moon is not spring." Spring to the human world is like jade, and the lamp burns the moon and the next moon is like silver."
If you say that the warmest one should be the Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu's "Sheng Cha Zi Yuan Xi": "On the first night of last year, the flower market was as bright as day. The moon is on the head of the willow, and the man is about after dusk." Every year during the Lantern Festival, guess the riddles of the lanterns, watch the lion dances, step on stilts, watch the flowers and guess the puzzles, and enjoy the lanterns and listen to the music. Thousands of people gathered, cars and horses crossed their necks, idle walking, maybe you can also meet the girl who folded flowers, the offspring who carry water.
The custom of eating the Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month originated from the Spring and Autumn Period when King Chu Zhao passed through the Yangtze River on his way back to the country, and saw something floating on the surface of the river, white and yellowish, with a red like rouge inside, and the taste was sweet. The people did not know what this was, so King Zhao sent someone to ask Confucius. Confucius said, "This duckweed fruit is also a sign of revival by the Lord of the One who obtains it." "
Thereafter, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, King Zhao ordered his men to imitate this fruit with noodles and eat it. In fact, the earliest credible record of the Lantern Festival eating the Lantern Festival should be found in the Song Dynasty's "Chronicle of the Ages". At that time, the Lantern was called "floating yuanzi", "yuanzi", "lactose yuanzi" and "sugar yuan". Although the Lantern and Tangyuan are two different things in the production process, we do not need to delve into it, but the origins of the north and the south are different.
Lantern Lantern Festival, Han Initial. At the lantern festival, the fire trees and silver flowers, the lamp tent thousands of lights, and the "Aoshan Mountain" made of colored lanterns, according to the Southern Song Dynasty's "Past Events of Wulin", every year's Lantern Festival, in Hangzhou Meitang and other places temporarily took the purpose, standing Aoshan Mountain, Aoshan to large, there are stacked to thirteen floors. With this giant lamp, it emits a big light, which naturally attracts thousands of people to watch the lamp.
The folk culture of watching the lanterns and guessing puzzles has become popular since the Southern Song Dynasty, and during the Southern Song Dynasty, whenever the lantern festival was held in the capital Lin'an, the good deeds wrote the riddles on a note and pasted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can inspire wisdom and interest, they can also be popular with different classes of society in the process of circulation.