Cold Food / Cold Food Day is the event
[Han Hong of the Tang Dynasty]
Flowers are flying everywhere in the Spring City, and the east wind of Cold Food keeps the willows from slanting.
At dusk, candles were passed around the Han Palace, and light smoke dispersed into the house of the Five Marquises.
Vernacular translation
In late spring, catkins are flying and falling reds are everywhere in Chang'an City. The east wind of the Cold Food Festival blows the willow branches of the Royal Garden. As night fell, the palace was busy passing candles around, and the light smoke from the candles dispersed into the homes of princes and nobles.
Extended information: From Baidu Encyclopedia
"Cold Food" is a poem written by Han Hong, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The first two sentences of this poem describe the daytime scenery, describing the charming spring scenery of Chang'an with flying catkins and countless falling reds, as well as the scenery in the palace gardens; the last two sentences describe the night scene, vividly painting a portrait of a horse racing at night. Candlesticks make people feel like seeing the light of candles and smelling the smell of light smoke. The whole poem uses line drawing techniques to depict the royal family's style realistically, and is full of intoxication with the spring scenery of the imperial capital and praises for the prosperous and peaceful times.
Appreciation of famous lines - "Spring City is full of flying flowers." This is a satirical poem with a very euphemistic meaning. Before the Tang Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was the most powerful, so people in the Tang Dynasty liked to use the Han Dynasty to compare with the Tang Dynasty when writing poems. Here, the story of the Han Dynasty is also used to satirize the dynasty. The cold food was used to burn fire for three days, but the fire should not be used until the fourth day. But on the dusk of the third day, the palace gave the candles that carried the fire to the emperor's noble relatives. This small incident shows the emperor's special favor to his relatives and ministers, but the poet wrote it very euphemistically, and started with the wonderful scenery of flying flowers in the spring city, and used the description of the east wind blowing willows to naturally introduce the emperor's officials, as if he was praising the emperor's grace. So even the emperor liked it very much. Writing like this that achieves a satirical effect without a single word of criticism is called implicit. If we think about it carefully, we can taste the irony
in it.