The specific time of Shangyuan Festival
Shangyuan Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night Xiao. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called the Lantern Festival. According to Taoism, the fifteenth day of the first month is also called Shangyuan Festival. Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. The formation of Lantern Festival has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on lights to pray for blessings. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month has been paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty, but the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month was really determined as a national folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties.
The ancient poems of Tang Dynasty related to the Festival of Shangyuan
On the fifteenth night of the first month, the fire trees and silver flowers in Su Weidao, Tang Dynasty were combined, and the star bridge was locked. The crowd surged, the dust float in the sky under the hoofs of the horses; Moonlight all over every corner, where people can see the moon overhead. All the prostitutes are Li, and the songs are beautiful. I can't help it at night, but I can't help it.
"Fifteen Nights Watching Lights" Tang Lu Zhaolin held an aromatic banquet in Jinli, and Lan Gangyan was in his early years. The color of the mattress is far away, and the light is far away. After receiving the name of Han, it seems like a moon hanging on the floor. Don't have a thousand smiles, come and show the front of the nine branches.
"Night Lights on the fifteenth day of the first month" In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Hu unlocked thousands of doors and lit thousands of lights. In the middle of the first month, he moved to the Imperial Capital. Three hundred wives danced in sleeves, and there was a sound of words in the sky for a while.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, I heard that there were lights in Beijing, and I couldn't wait to see them. In Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin's moonlight lights filled the Imperial Capital, and cars covered the thoroughfare. In his spare time, he was unable to witness the grand occasion of the lantern festival in the year of zhongxing, and had to take the Fellow to see the temple fair to meet the god of Zigu.
Customs of Shangyuan Festival
Shangyuan Festival is a traditional festival in China since ancient times. It is said that Lantern Festival started with ancient people holding torches to drive away insects and beasts in rural fields, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a good harvest. To this day, people in some areas in southwest China still make torches out of reeds or branches on the fifteenth day of the first month, and hold them high in groups and dance in fields or grain drying fields. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been in full swing. Tens of thousands of people took part in singing and dancing, from faint to dull. With the changes of society and times, the customs of Lantern Festival have changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.