In addition to Tanabata, it turns out that valentine's day in ancient times also has this day

In addition to Tanabata, the Lantern Festival is also the ancient Valentine's Day, but now the significance of the Lantern Festival has been reduced, paying more attention to family reunion.

The Lantern Festival is also known as the Shangyuan Festival. In ancient times, there was a curfew at night, and ordinary people were not allowed to go out at night. The Lantern Festival will be banned for one day on this day, and ordinary people can go out at night to enjoy the lanterns. In ancient times, women could not go out freely, except for the Lantern Festival, which provided an opportunity for unmarried men and women to meet. The flow of people is weaving, and it is easy for men and women to meet and love.

The "Past Events of Wulin" records the situation of the Southern Song Dynasty capital Lin'an Province Shinu Guandeng City: "The capital city shinu, Luo Qi is like a cloud, Gai Wuxi is not the same." ”

Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu's "Sheng Cha Zi Yuan Eve": "On the first night of last year, the flower market was as bright as day, the moon was willowy, and people were about after dusk. On New Year's Eve this year, the moon and lights are still there. I didn't see last year's people, and I was full of tears in my spring shirt sleeves. The words describe the regret of the young woman not seeing her crush on the day of the Lantern Festival.

As for the time-honored sentence "The crowd looked for him a thousand hundred degrees, and suddenly looked back, but the man was there, where the lights were dimmed", it is a true description of the dating scene of young men and women.

In ancient times, the Lantern Festival was not mixed with any worldly concepts, and the Lantern Festival was the purest way for young men and women to express their intentions in the initial stage of love.