As night falls, the palace is busy distributing candles, and light smoke floats in the palaces of princes and nobles.
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From Han Yi's Cold Food in Tang Dynasty. Cold food is a seven-character quatrain written by Han Yi, a poet in Tang Dynasty. The spring city is full of flowers, and the cold food is Dongfeng willow. As night fell, the palace was busy lighting candles, and smoke drifted to the house of the prince and the marquis.
In Chang 'an in late spring, catkins are flying all over the sky, and the east wind of the Cold Food Festival blows the willow branches of Miyagi. As night falls, the palace is busy distributing candles, and light smoke is floating in the palaces of princes and nobles.
"At dusk, candles were passed in the Han Palace, and light smoke was scattered into the homes of five marquis". "Five Hou" generally refers to five eunuchs who were sealed on the same day in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Here, the Han Dynasty is used as a metaphor for the Tang Dynasty, alluding to eunuchs who have been favored by the emperor since the middle Tang Dynasty. Every family can't make a fire on the Cold Food Festival, but the palace is an exception. Before dark, the palace is busy giving out candles. Besides the palace, your personal minions can also get this grace.
It is a long-standing custom in China to ban fire from cold food, but powerful ministers can make an exception and place candles. The poet made a euphemistic satire on this corrupt political phenomenon. The whole poem is realistic by line drawing, depicting the royal style, full of intoxication of the spring scenery of the imperial capital and singing of Chengping in the prosperous times. From the emperor at that time to the ordinary courtiers, they all preferred the poem and always spoke highly of it.