During the period of Emperor Han Ming, Ming Di advocated Buddhism. According to legend, on the fifteenth day of the first month, monks watched the relics, lit lanterns to worship Buddha, and made the gentry and common people hang lanterns, gradually forming a grand folk festival.
Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, which mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.
Poems related to Lantern Festival:
"A song of Haruka is like the sea, and thousands of lights are like night." There are countless poems praising Lantern Festival lanterns by literati in past dynasties, which are still interesting to read today.
By the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival had developed into an unprecedented lantern market. The capital "made lanterns 20 feet high, resplendent in clothes, decorated with gold and silver, burning 50,000 lanterns and clustering them into flower trees".
The fifteenth night of the first month by Su Weidao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, has the words "The fire tree and the silver flower are combined, and the star bridge is locked". The dark dust goes with the horse and the bright moon comes. " It depicts a scene of colorful lights, bright moonlight, tourists weaving and excitement.
Commendable, should also be the first Tang Dynasty poet Cui Ye's "Yuan Ye", jade does not rush to leak copper pot, iron lock gold lock. Who can sit on the moon and smell the lights? Although there is no positive description of the Lantern Festival, it contains a very happy and lively scene.