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The festive Lantern Festival is one of the most important cultural factors of the traditional Chinese new year.
In 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, appears in the poems, words and novels of the literati and inkers of the past generations, interpreting the implicit romance of the Orientals. This also dooms the Lantern Festival to be a poetic festival. In fact, in ancient mainland china, the Lantern Festival was a romantic festival.
The Lantern Festival is known as the "Shangyuan Festival", "New Year's Eve Festival", and "Lantern Festival". Compared with Chinese New Year's Eve Night, lantern night is the most anticipated day of the year for young boys and girls in ancient times, because they can finally come out to meet.
Before the Song Dynasty, China had a strict curfew system. In the Tang Dynasty, the Shangyuan Festival was banned for three days, and girls were only allowed to go out together to watch the lanterns and play on the day of the Lantern Festival. This provides an opportunity for young men and women to have a beautiful encounter.
In ancient times, every year and this night, the lights were shining. The Lantern Festival, when the people are reunited and the moon is full, has created countless good relationships and beautiful families, leaving behind many beautiful poems and legends.
Love stories, of course, must begin with encounters, and the most famous scene of encounters is the sentence of Xin Zhiyi's "Qingyu Case, New Year's Eve": "The crowd looked for him for a thousand hundred degrees, and suddenly looked back, but the man was there, and the lights were dimmed."
There is also Ouyang Xiu's "Sheng Cha Zi": "The head of the willow on the moon, the person is about after dusk." This is the most beautiful interpretation of the love between people on the Lantern Night in history, and it is also the most yearning time for many sentient men and women.
The beautiful allusion of "breaking the mirror and reuniting" that has been handed down to this day is also related to the Lantern Festival.
Princess Lechang, who was richly dressed in brocade and full of talent and appearance, was married to Xu Deyan, a talented son of a generation full of poetry books. Soon, however, the enemy army pressed the border and the destruction of the country was imminent.
Xu Deyan was worried about the separation of the husband and wife after the destruction of the country, so he agreed with the princess to break a bronze mirror and hold half of it as a proof of future meeting, and agreed to sell the mirror in the street market on the fifteenth lantern festival of the first month of the following year to get the news of the other party.
Soon, the country collapsed, and the new monarch randomly ordered mandarin ducks and gave the princess to a general. Since then, the princess has been depressed all day. Finally looking forward to the fifteenth day of the first month of the second year, he asked the old servant next to him to take a half-bronze mirror and go to the street to shout and sell.
At the same time, Xu Deyan missed his wife, did not hesitate to travel a long way, went to Beijing to search, and finally on the day of the Lantern Festival, he came to the street with half a copper mirror as promised. Turning around, I suddenly found an old servant also selling a half-face bronze mirror. He stepped forward and looked at it, and it coincided with his half-face bronze mirror.
Xu De saw things and thought about people, and he didn't feel tears flowing. Asking the old servant to know that Princess Lechang had fallen into the Yang Mansion, she expected to be unable to see her again, and she became more and more sad.
He couldn't help but write a poem on the half-mirror, "The Broken Mirror Poem", which the old servant took home. The poem reads: "The mirror is gone with the person, and the mirror is not returned." There is no shadow of Chang'e, and the bright moon shines in the air."
After reading her husband's inscription poem, the princess was devastated and could not enter the water all day. The general interrogated him repeatedly, only to know the reason, deeply impressed, simply the beauty of adulthood, summoned Xu Deyan into the palace, let the two of them reunite and return to their hometown.
This good story is spread everywhere, and there is a beautiful allusion to "breaking the mirror and reuniting".
Spend a good full moon reunion
LANTERN FESTIVAL
The moon is full of ice wheels, the lights burn the land and sea, and people step on the spring sun, and in the blink of an eye, it is the fifteenth day of the first month.
Although the Lantern Festival represents the complete end of the "year in the first month", the moon is old and the lights are still dimmed. As long as the loved one is around, the next few days are sweet.
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