The ancient people’s elegant name for all things is extremely beautiful---"Lantern Festival"
Another name for "Lantern Festival"
Another name for Lantern Festival
Yuanxi, Lantern Night, Lantern Festival, Shangyuan Festival, Tianguan Festival, Spring Lantern Festival, Xiaozhengyue
Poems about the Lantern Festival
1. "The Sapphire Case·Yuan" "Evening" Song Dynasty·Xin Qiji
At night, the east wind blows thousands of flowers and trees, and even blows them down, and the stars are like rain. BMW's carved cars fill the road with fragrance. The phoenix flute sounded, the jade pot turned light, and fish and dragons danced all night. E'er's snowy willows are covered with golden threads, and the laughter is full of hidden fragrance.
The crowd looked for him thousands of times, but suddenly looking back, he was there, in a dimly lit place.
2. "Yong Yu Le·The sunset melts gold" - Song Dynasty Li Qingzhao
The sunset melts gold, the dusk clouds cover the wall, where are the people. The willows are dyed with thick smoke, and the plum flute is played with resentment, and I know how much spring is coming. During the Lantern Festival, the weather is harmonious and there is no wind or rain. Come to greet him, bring him a car and a BMW, and thank him for his wine, friends, and poets. It's a prosperous day in Zhongzhou, and there is a lot of free time in the boudoir. Remember to focus on the three or five. Paved with emerald crowns, twisted with golden snow willows, and clustered with ribbons to help Chu. Now I am haggard and weather-beaten, and I am afraid of going out at night. It's better to go under the curtain and listen to people's laughter.
3. "The Fifteenth Night of the First Lunar Month" - Tang·Suweiwei
Fire trees and silver flowers bloom together, and the iron locks of the star bridge open. The dark dust follows the horse, and the bright moon follows the person.
All the entertainers have food and plums, and all the songs are falling. Jinwu can't help but stay at night, and the jade leaks don't urge each other.
4. "Lantern Festival" - Tang Yin of the Ming Dynasty
If there is a lamp but no moon, it will not entertain people. If there is a moon but no lamp, it is not spring. When spring arrives in the world, people are like jade, and when the lamp is burning, the moon is like silver. The streets are full of pearls and emeralds, and the village girls are dancing, and the gods are playing and singing. If you don't show your beauty and open your mouth to smile, how can you spend this good time?
5. "Lamps are built in the thoroughfare and raised to the south tower at night on New Year's Eve" - ??Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty
The wheel of Falun Gong turns in the sky, the sound of Brahma comes from the sky; thousands of lanterns and trees shine, and the flowers Seven branches of flame bloom. The shadow of the moon is like running water, the spring breeze contains night plum blossoms; the moon moves on the golden ground, and the bell shines on the glazed platform.
6. "Shangyuan Night" - Cui Ye of the Tang Dynasty
Don't rush the jade leaking copper kettle, the iron gate and the golden lock are open all night; who can sit idle when seeing the moon? He heard the light but didn't look at it.
7. "Watching Lanterns on the Fifteenth Night" - Lu Zhaolin, Tang Dynasty
The banquet in Jinli is full of orchids and reds in the early years. The colors are scattered far away from the ground, and the bright light is far away in the sky. The stars are falling when the Han Dynasty is suspected, and the moon is hanging by the building. Don't have a daughter's smile, come and reflect in front of the nine branches.
8. "Lamps on the Fifteenth Night of the First Month" - Zhang of the Tang Dynasty
Thousands of doors are opened and thousands of lanterns are lit, and the capital is moved in the middle of the first lunar month. Three hundred ladies danced with sleeves and sang lyrics as soon as they entered the sky.
9. "Shengchazi Yuanxi" - Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty
On the night of the Yuan Dynasty last year, the lights in the flower market were as bright as day. When the moon reaches the top of the willow tree, people meet at dusk. On Yuan Ye this year, the moon and lights are still there. I don't see the person from last year, and my spring shirt sleeves are wet with tears.
10. "Taicheng Road·Shangyuan" - Nalan Xingde of the Qing Dynasty
In the dim light of the night, the trees and fish and dragons dance, and the Baochai Tower is far away. The shoes are still red, the glass is still green, and the flowers are waiting to return slowly.
11. "Qingpingle·Shangyuan Lunar Eclipse" - Nalan Xingde of Qing Dynasty
Compared with the ordinary farewell scene in Qing Dynasty, it is the first time of reunion. The shadow moth suddenly spreads its first string, and its brilliance borrows from the palace lotus.
The seven treasures are built into a wall, and the wheel is in the sky every year.
Celebrities related to the "Lantern Festival"
1. Emperor Wen of Han: The person who ordered the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to be named the "Lantern Festival".
2. Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty: ordered the lighting of lanterns to worship Buddha and the common people to hang lanterns. He was the founder of flower-viewing lanterns.
3. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: the advocate of worshiping the gods on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
4. Dongfang Shuo: The perfect girl of the Lantern Festival, the most romantic person in the Lantern Festival.
5. Yang Su: The broken mirror is finally reunited, a person of adult beauty.
6. Xin Qiji: He is the most infatuated person during the Lantern Festival.
7. Tian Deng: A person who only allows state officials to set fires, but does not allow people to light lamps.
8. Zhu Yuanzhang: Killing a street, the most brutal emperor during the Lantern Festival.
9. Jia Sidao: The first person to make lantern couplets.
10. Yuan Shikai: Because "Yuanxiao" and "Yuanxiao" are homophonic, Yuan Shikai is not allowed to call Yuanxiao, and can only call it glutinous rice balls.
Customs of the "Lantern Festival"
1. Eating Yuanxiao: "rolling" Yuanxiao in the north, and "wrapping" glutinous rice balls in the south.
2. There are folk customs of hanging lanterns, lighting lanterns, and viewing lanterns, so it is also called the Festival of Lanterns. There are palace lanterns, animal head lanterns, revolving lanterns, flower lanterns, bird lanterns, etc. It began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and was passed down to later generations.
3. Guess lantern riddles. Write riddles on slips of paper and stick them on colorful lanterns for people to guess.
4. Dragon lantern dancing is also called dragon lantern dancing or dragon dance.
5. Walking on stilts The earliest introduction to stilts in China is in the chapter "Liezi·Shuofu": "There was Lanzi in the Song Dynasty, who used his skills to practice in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, he called people to see his skills.
6. Lion dance began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. It is also called "Lion Dance" and "Taiping Le". It is usually completed by three people. Two people dress up as lions, one person acts as the lion's head, one person acts as the lion's body and hind legs, and the other person Be the leader of the lion.
7. Land boat rowing is also called land boat racing, which is to imitate boat movements on land. Most of the people who perform land boat racing are girls.
8. Household sacrifices. There were "seven sacrifices" in ancient times, and these are two of them.
The method of offering sacrifices is to insert poplar branches above the door, insert a pair of chopsticks into the bowl of bean porridge, or place wine and meat directly in front of the door.
9. Chasing Rats
It started in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and was mainly used for silkworm farmers.
10. Sending children’s lanterns is referred to as “sending lanterns”, also known as “sending flower lanterns”, etc.
11. Yingzigu Zigu is also called Qigu. In the north, she is often called toilet aunt and pit third aunt. Ancient folk customs include offering sacrifices to Zigu, the toilet god, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, fortune-telling about sericulture, and fortune telling.
12. Walking all diseases is also called traveling all diseases, scattering all diseases, roasting all diseases, walking on a bridge, etc. It is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for health.