【"Yang Senwu Comments on the Three Kingdoms" 76th Comment]
Wen ‖ Yang Senwu Figure ‖ network
Kong Ming Lantern is a lantern that flies during the Chinese Lantern Festival. At the dawn of the moon, the burning Kong Ming lantern rises into the air of more than a thousand meters, forming an ocean of lights, which is very beautiful and spectacular!
Kong Ming Lantern is made of bamboo sheets and paper, the shape resembles Zhuge Liang's hat, the mouth is oval, the lower side is fixed with double cross silk thread, and the candle can be lit in the middle. In the past, people flew Kong Ming lanterns during the Lantern Festival to bless the festival and pray for happiness! (To enjoy the 75th review of "Yang Sen's Martial Commentary on the Three Kingdoms", please click on the following link: Moving flowers and elder trees leads to historical regrets: Why is it wrong after killing mistakes? ）
According to legend, during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, he was once besieged by the Wei army in Pingyang, and the battle was very fierce, until the grain and grass were exhausted. Zhuge Liang was very anxious, but the message of distress could not be transmitted, and he had no choice but to think of using a lamp to summon the message. He invented a lamp that hid the message for distress in the lamp, rode the downwind, and then used the upward gravitational pull of the smoke to send the lamp out.
The lamp flew to the base camp of the Shu Kingdom, and after the guard general Jiang Wei received it, he immediately sent troops to the rescue. After the arrival of the army, the Wei army was defeated, Zhuge Liang was able to escape from danger, and Pingyang was able to break the siege. In order to commemorate the merits of the lamp, the Shu army named this lamp "Kong Ming Lantern".
According to legend, during the five generations (907-960), the Kong Ming lantern was also used as a military communication tool. There was a Xinqiniang in Fujian who helped her husband fight in the war, and once used Kong Ming lanterns to transmit military contact information, and won the victory. Yang Liulang of the Song Dynasty, at the critical juncture of defending the three passes, also used the Kong Ming lantern to transmit the information of the army and defeated the invasion of the Liao army.
The common people of Sichuan and Yunnan were often robbed by bandits. One year, bandits came, frightening people into hiding in the mountains. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the officers and soldiers defeated the bandits, but the people in the mountains did not know it. So the people down the mountain all set off Kong Ming lanterns and reported the news. So people all went home. Since then, on the fifteenth day of the first month, people have set off Kong Ming lanterns as a souvenir. Later, a custom was formed, and every Lantern Festival, Kong Ming lanterns were lit as a prayer for happiness.
【About the author】Yang Senwu, a native of Hubei, graduated from the Department of Chinese of Central China Normal University, worked in Xuchang, and is a member of the Henan Writers Association. He has published the novel "Hundred Mile Monument", the short story collection "Word of Mouth", "Drama God" and so on.
1. This article is published with the author's authorization, the author is responsible for the author's own responsibility, if there is infringement, please notify the "hometown Xuchang" today's headline number to delete immediately. The views of the author of this article do not represent the position of "hometown Xuchang" today's headlines.
2, the text has nothing to do. The pictures in this article come from the Internet, and the copyright belongs to the original photographer or original producer, and we would like to express our sincere thanks. If the pictures used in this article are infringing, please notify this today's headline number to delete it immediately.
3. "Hometown Xuchang" copyright works, reprint or submit, please send an email to [email protected].
Love Xuchang's hometown, see "Hometown Xuchang". Hometown Xuchang, feelings, temperature, taste!
This article is the original author of the headline number. Unauthorized reproduction is not permitted.