Lantern Festival introduction:
The first day of the first day of the lunar calendar, the Spring Festival has just passed, ushered in China's traditional festival - Lantern Festival.
The first month is the joon of the lunar calendar. The ancients said that night is "Lan", so it is called the first month of the Lantern Festival. The 15th of the first month is the first month of the first month, and it is also a dollar, and the night is re-spring. People celebrate this, and it is also a continuation of the New Year. The Lantern Festival is also known as "upper yuan".
According to the traditional Chinese folk tradition, in the evening of the day, people have to pose a lot of light, to celebrate. Go out of the moon, the flames are flames, guess the riddles, eat the Lantern Festival, family reunion, the same celebration, and it is happy.
The Lantern Festival also called the light festival, the customs of the Lantern Festival started from the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, enjoy the lighting activities more prosperous, the palace, the streets, the streets, but also build a tall light wheel, light floor and light tree, Tang Dynasty poet Lu Zhao neighboring the grand event of the Lantern Festival in the "Fifteen Night Watch Light", "Suspecting the Suspective, I will hang it like the building."
The Song Dynasty attaches great importance to the Lantern Festival, and the lighting activities are more lively. In the Ming Dynasty, we must continue to enjoy the lamp for 10 days, which is the longest light of China. Although there is only 3 days in the Qing Dynasty, it is very large, and there is an unprecedented situation.
"Guessing Mystery" is also called "playing the riddle", an activity after the Lantern Festival, appearing in the Song Dynasty. At the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital Linan had a lot of people in the Lantern Festival. At the beginning, it was a good thing to write the riddle on the note, and attached it to the top of the colorful light. Because the riddle can enlighten the wisdom and interest, so the popularity of all walks of life is popular.
The customs of the folk will eat Yuanxiao. Lantern is made of glutinous rice, or solid, or stuffed. The stuffing has bean sand, sugar, hawthorn, all kinds of fruit, etc., boil, fried, steamed, fried when eating. At first, people called "floating circles", and later called "Tang Tuan" or "Tang Yuan", these names "reunion" phonetic, giving a group, symbolizing the whole family group round, and is happy, people are also This is missing from other loved ones and hosted a beautiful wish for future life.
Some places also have the custom of "walking the disease", also known as "Baked Bask", "Baked Passenger", participants are more women, they are together, or walk the wall, or cross the officers, The purpose is to drive the disaster.
Over time, the activities of the Lantern Festival have more and more activities, and there are many traditional folk performances such as dragon lights, lion, stepping on the stilts, taking the waves, and playing the Dragonfly. This inheritance has more than 2,000 traditional festivals, not only in the branches of the strait, but also in the overseas Chinese gatherings are not afraid.
Regarding the origins of the Lantern Festival, there are several interesting legend:
Legend for light
Legend has many years ago, there are many murderers and beasts. They hurt people and livestock all over. People organize them to play them. There is a god bird to land for the lost, but unexpected hunters are shot. The Emperor knows that it is very angry, immediately picked up, ordered the heavenly soldiers to set fire in the 15th of the first month, and turned to death. The daughter of the Emperor is kind, can't bear to see the people's innocent, and rishes the danger of life, secretly driving Xiang Yun to the world, telling this news. Everyone heard about this news, there was a coke on the head. I don't know how to be good. After a long time, I have an old man who wants to come out. He said: "In the first month of fourteen, fifteen, sixteen days three days, each family is at home, point Falling in fireworks, fireworks. So, Tian Di will think that people are burned. "
Everyone listened nodded, and I was ready to go. At the end of the 15th night, the Emperor saw that the world was red, the sound was shocked, and it was the same for three times, thinking is the fire burning flame, which is very fast. People have saved their lives and property this. In order to commemorate this success, every time you go to the first month, every household is hanging lanterns, and you can commemorate this day. Dongfang Hao and Yuan Lan Girl
This legend is related to the custom of eating Yuanxiao: The Hanwu Emperor has a favorite name called Dongfang, he is kind and fun. One day in winter, I have a few days in the snow, and the Dongfangqi went to the Royal Garden to give Wu Emperor. Just entered the garden, I found that there was a palace woman to be prepared to get a well. The Oriental is so busy to save and ask the reason she wants to commit suicide. It turned out that this palace woman named Yuanxiao, and there is a parents and a sister at home. Since she entered the palace, they never met with their families. Every year, the season of the spring is more than usual, than usual. I don't think I can't be filial with piety in my parents, it is better to die. Dongfang heard her experience, deeply sympathetic, and assured her to try to make her reunite with her family.
One day, the Oriental Luyou Palace put a divination stall on Chang'an Street. Many people are fighting to dine to him. Unexpectedly, everyone's request is the "first month of the 16th fire burning". One time, Changan rushed very panic. People have questioned disaster relief. Dongfang said: "On the 13th of the first month, the fire god will send a red-fitting goddess to visit, she is the messenger of the best to burn Changan, I will give you a copy of the 偈 偈, you can think about it today." After finishing, I will thrown a red post, and I will go. The people pick up the red post, and quickly sent to the palace to report the emperor.
The Emperor Han Dynasty took a look at it. I saw it above: "Changan is robbing, fire burning, fifteen fires, flame red night", his heart is shocked, and I have been busy in the east. Dongfang's pleasure wants to think about it, just say: "I heard that the fire god will love the soup round, the Lantern of the Palace is not often given to dumplings? 15 nights can make Yuanxiao to do a good job in Tang Yuan. Long live incense, let Kyoto Every family is a dumplings, and they respect the volunteers. In the fifteen night, the people will be launched in the fifteen nights, and the fireworks are full of fireworks. It seems that the fireworks are full of fire, so you can pass the Yu Emperor. In addition, notify the city The people, in the 15th night, Into the city, I've disaster disaster in the crowd. " After the martial arts listened, it was very happy to do it in the way.
At the 15th of the first month, Chang'an City, Zhang Lancai, tourists, and very lively. The parents of the palace girls also took the lanterns in the city. When they saw the big palace lamp with "Yuan Lan" words, the surprise shouted: "Yuanxiao! Yuan Lan!", Yuanxiao heard the shout, finally gathered with his loved ones.
After a lively overnight, Chang'an City didn't work safely. The Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the next day, every fifteenth day of the first month, the soup is fired, and the first month of the first month of the whole city hangs the fireworks. Because the dumplings made by Yuanxia is the best, people call the soup to Yuanxiao, called the Lantern Festival this day.
The custom of the Lantern Festival:
The Lantern Festival is China's traditional festival, so the customs of all parts of the country are almost the same, but there are still their own characteristics.
Eating
The first month of fifteen dollars, "Yuanxiao" as food, has been in our country for a long time. In the Song Dynasty, the folks were popular with a novelty food eating in the Lantern Festival. This kind of food, the earliest called "floating", said "Yuan Lan", the businessman also has a beautiful name "Yuanbao". Yuan Zhen, "Tang Yuan" with white sugar, roses, sesame, bean sand, Huang Gui, walnut kernel, nut, jujube, etc., with glutinous rice flour into a circular, delicious, flavor. Can be cooked, fried, steamed, and there is a fascination. Shaanxi's dumplings are not covered, but in the glutinous rice flour, "roll", or the cooking or fried, hot fire, and the group round. Watchlight
Han Ming Emperor Yongping (AD 58-75) The Buddha's Ji Ni Liang. In order to promote the Dharma, Han Ming Emperor will order the 15th night of the Palace and the temple "burning temple". Since then, the customs of the Lantern Festival will be circulated by the people only in the court. That is, every fifteen of the first month, no matter the ethics or the people must hang the lamp, the city and rural arena.
The custom of the Lantern Festival, in the Tang Dynasty, became an unprecedented light market, and the Beijing Chang'an is the world's largest city, the society is rich. Under the personal advocacy of the emperor, the Lantern Festival is more and more luxurious. After Zhongtang, it has developed into a national carnival. Tang Xuanzong (AD 685-762), Changan, Changan's lamp market is very large, the fire is 50,000, the spectacles are more like, the emperor is a giant light building, more than 150 feet, high, The golden light is very spectacular.
In the Song Dynasty, the Lantern Festival will be better than the Dynasty, and the activities are more civilized, and the national characteristics are stronger. The Lantern Lantern of the past generation will continue to develop, and the time of the light festival is growing. The Tang Dynasty's lamp will be "One day before and after the first day", the Song Dynasty added two days after sixteen, and the Ming Dynasty was extended to ten days from the eighth to 18th.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu entered the main Central Plains, the court no longer set the lamp, but the people's lights were still spectacular. Date is shortened to five days, continued to today.
The lamp has the meaning of light and Ding Ding, igniting the lights of the lights, and the Taiwanese lights and Dingqi represents a boy, so the woman will be deliberately in the light, hope "drilling the lamp foot Ovals "(that is, drilling down the lights down, good boy).
Chinese valentine's day
The Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival. The Lantern Festival will also provide a chance to unmarried men and women in the feudal traditional society. The lamp is just a chance of friendship, and the unmarried men can use the lanterns and can be used for their own objects. During the Lantern Festival, it is a time for men and women and lover.
In Taiwan, there are unmarried women to steal onion or dish will marry the traditional customs of the husband, commonly known as: "stealing the onion, married", "stealing the dishes, married", hope marriage The girl is going to pick the onion or green vegetables in the Night Garden, and look forward to the future family happiness.
Ouyang Xiu (Logo? Cloud: Last year, the flower city light is like a book; the moon willow head, the people have a dusk. Xin Qiqi (Qing Yu case) wrote: the crowd is looking for it, then looks back, the man is in the light Shaoshan. It is a situation in which the Lantern Festival is described. The traditional drama Chen San and Wu Niang are in the Lantern Festival, and when the Lantern Festival is in love, Le Chang's official documents and Xu Deyan in the Yuanxiao night broke the mirror, "Spring Light Mystery" Zhongyu Wenyan and Shadow In the Lantern Festival. So the Lantern Festival is also China's "Valentine's Day".
In addition to the celebration of the celebration, the Lantern Festival has faithful activities. That is "Walking the Period", also known as "Grilled Bask", "Baked Passenger" participants are more women, they are giving together or walking, or over bridge over the suburbs, the purpose is to drive the disaster.
Over time, the activities of the Lantern Festival have more and more activities, and there are many places in many places to increase the dragon lights, lions, stepping on the stilts, draft the waves to twist songs, and play Taiping drums.
