Cover news reporter Li Yuxin
"Preaching the boiling of the five gates in a row, the lights of the mountain ten thousand torches at dusk." Nearly a thousand years ago, the Southern Song Dynasty poet Lu You wrote a poem "Ding Youshangyuan", at this time he was idle in Chengdu, and used poems to describe the grand lantern festival in Chengdu. In the blink of an eye, the annual Lantern Festival has arrived again, looking back at Lu You's poems, under his pen, the scene of the lanterns will be in full bloom and the colorful sky seems to have crossed a thousand years of time and space and appeared in front of people's eyes.
After the Spring Festival, when the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year arrives, it means that the Lantern Festival has also arrived. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "supper", so the fifteenth day of the first month was called the "Lantern Festival". Because it was influenced by Taoism during the Tang Dynasty, it was also known as the Shangyuan Festival. On the night of this day, people admire the lanterns, guess the riddles, eat the Lantern... Lights are everywhere, and it seems to push the joyful atmosphere of the New Year to the climax.
The lantern scene in the costume drama "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an"
"The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is also the end of the New Year, because after the Lantern Festival, the Year is over." Folklore expert Liu Xiaochang said that in the old Chengdu, this festival was particularly lively, the custom of lantern festival lights has continued here for thousands of years, and the Chengdu Lantern Festival is an ancient traditional folk activity in Sichuan Province. In the poems of many ancient literati and inkers, you can see the lively scene of thousands of lanterns at the Lantern Festival.
Lights are on the spot
The Lantern Lantern Festival in Chengdu in the Song Dynasty is comparable to the Beijing Master
"Spring supper treasure is bright, and the smoke in the brocade is floating." The city is running, and the border is poor for thousands of miles. He embroidered with his robes and embroidered with incense. The human voice thundered far away, and the fire tree was thick. "Tian Guan, who was the prefect of Chengdu, once described the grand situation of Chengdu's lamp market in the Song Dynasty in the poem "Shangyuan Lantern Night". The lights are crowded and bustling, the street market is full of fire trees and honeysuckle, as if the day and night are reversed, and the lights illuminate the night like day.
Southern Song Dynasty Zhu Yu "Lamp Drama Diagram"
Chengdu's lamp market has a long history, and in the Yuan Dynasty, The Chengdu people Fei wrote in the "Annals of the Year" to quote the Tang people's "Old Records of Putting Lanterns", saying that during the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong came to Chengdu to avoid the disaster of war, and went to the street with the Taoist master Ye Qingshan to watch the lanterns, and also bought wine and drinks in Fuchunfang. And the Chengdu Lantern Society can be traced back to which era, there is still no conclusion.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the famous minister Zhao Yu clearly recorded the December City of Chengdu in the "Chengdu Ancient and Modern Collection", of which the first month was the Lamp City. According to the record of the "Annals of the Year": "Song Kaibao was in the second year, and he ordered the next year to put on the lanterns for three nights. "It can be seen that the date of the lantern festival is generally on the night of the First Yuan, that is, the Lantern Festival. Chengdu Shangyuan Festival put on lights for three nights, lively and extraordinary.
In addition, the "Zhou County Lantern" article in the tenth volume of the "Chronicle of the Years" states: "The lamp mountain of Chengdu Province or too much queqian, the upper is the Flying Bridge Mountain Pavilion, too guarded to be secondary, and the three people go through the pavilions, and each cup is down." In front of the subordinate drinking shed, such as the Thorn Basin of the Beijing Division, the wood is a wall, in which flowers are planted, and the old days of catching mountain birds and animals are full of them, and the last figure is carved into the earth. Shu human nature is not conscientious, and it is a second climb to the wall, swirling around to see. It can be seen that in the Song Dynasty, the Chengdu government built a mountain shed, made a lantern with new changes, held a lantern festival, and the lamp mountain could be comparable to that of the Beijing Division.
"By the Ming and Qing dynasties, chengdu's Lantern Festival was more lively, and from this time on, the Lantern Festival should be described with a 'noisy' word." Liu Xiaochang described that during the Lantern Festival, there were lights everywhere in Chengdu, and people inside and outside the city also had to come out to see the lights. Sichuan opera origami drama has a couple watching the lights, which is the story of watching the lights, which is very popular with Chengdu people. Thousands of lights, bustling and extraordinary. "Qing Dynasty Li Qiuyuan's "Lantern" poem Yun: 'The Lantern Fights to See the Lotus Boat, and the BMW Fragrant Car Picks Up the Cuidian.' In the middle of the stormy night, people dispersed, and the lone lamp still called for selling tangyuan. This is the most appropriate compliment to the Chengdu Lantern Festival. ”
The streets are lit up with colored lights
The oddly shaped headlights come to life
In the 1920s and 1930s, on the day of the Lantern Festival, the scene of brilliant lights could be seen on East Avenue, Daci Temple, Zhaojue Temple, Wenshu Monastery, Qingyang Palace and other places. "Taking East Avenue as an example, the five streets of East Avenue, the middle, the lower and the city guard, and the West East Avenue, from the East Gate Bridge to the Ten Mile Long Street of Yanshikou, have become an ocean of lights, and every household is illuminated." Liu Xiaochang said that at that time, there were not only street lamps, but also a group of large group lights with strange shapes. For example, large merchants selling porcelain use large bowls, small bowls, cups, cups, cups, and plates to form a magnetic color dragon and a magnetic gatehouse with a length of two or three inches, light a lamp in the middle, and hang a lantern. The rich merchants who sold cloth used red cloth, and the yellow cloth formed a hydrangea to form a street building, which contrasted with the red lantern and led from this side of the street to the other side of the street.
"Qianlong Emperor Lantern Xingle Map" axis, Qing, The Palace Museum collection
"All walks of life hang their products on the lamp, both as a light and as an advertisement. Like paper shops to make some color sculptures of the characters, such as "Eight Immortals Across the Sea", "Three Battles Lü Bu", "Taoyuan Jieyi" to form a group of colored sculptures, placed in front of the door to attract past spectators, very wonderful and good-looking. Liu Xiaochang especially mentioned that in the past, at the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival on East Avenue, there were also all the characters painted on the lanterns of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and more than 200 lanterns were hung on the street entrance, which was vivid, which showed the grandeur of the Lantern Lanterns in Chengdu. The lights in Chengdu have attracted tens of thousands of people outside the city to chase and watch. "The Old Sayings of Hibiscus" mentions that from the ninth day of the first lunar month, the streets are full of colorful lights. In the most prosperous East Street, the colored lights are the most exquisite, connecting from the street to the end of the street. ”
With the change of time, in the early 1950s, the Chengdu Lantern Festival was moved to qingyang Palace to be held, once a year, the meeting period is more than a month, the scale of its illumination form can be said to be changing with each passing day, and the production of its lamps is colorful, endlessly changeable, dazzling, and the lantern viewers often linger in the sea of colorful lights. "Chengdu's lanterns will have a history of thousands of years, and it is a fascinating and good thing for individuals to bring joy and auspiciousness during the Spring Festival."
Draft: He Yu