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It is almost the fifteenth lantern festival of the first month, and people often say that after the fifteenth day of the first month, it means that the year is almost over, and we must cheer up and start the work of the new year.
The 15th Lantern Festival of the First Month is a traditional festival of our Chinese nation, and it is also the night of the full moon of the New Year, so people attach great importance to it. Generally from the twelfth day of the first month, it is busy.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, there is a custom of viewing the lanterns. There are also many customs and cultural activities, such as eating tangyuan, making flower lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, playing with dragon lanterns and so on. Added more atmosphere to the festival.
The fifteenth day of the first month is the "Lantern Festival", also known as the "Lantern Festival", "Shangyuan Festival", do you know why it is called "Shangyuan Festival"?
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Folklore says that the fifteenth day of the first month is the birthday of Shangyuan Tianguan. This day is the day of the Taoist three-yuan day, so the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". The fifteenth day of the first month is also the birthday of the ancestral master Zhang Daoling. This shows that Shangyuanjie and Taoism have a close relationship.
Shangyuan Tianguan
Shangyuan Tianguan is one of the Three Emperors of the Taoist Immortals, and Shangyuan Yipin Tianguan blessed Emperor Ziwei. Legend has it that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, the Shangyuan Heavenly Officials would come down to the human world to inspect good and evil and bless the human world. In order to greet the Shangyuan Tianguan, people should burn lamps and paste couplets on this day. It symbolizes the hope that people hope that the heavenly officials can examine the wicked, bless the human world, and have a desire for a better life.
Heavenly officials look
The appearance of the Heavenly Officials is all played by the painters, and some paintings depict the kind and gentle Tianguan holding Ruyi, and the five boys each holding a mascot around him, or the Heavenly Officials holding five children, and the children hold pomegranates, peaches, Buddha hands, plum blossoms, and auspicious flower lanterns in their hands, which mean that the stars are high and auspicious and rich; there are also paintings of the Tianguan as a pin official wearing a big red robe, holding the unfolded "Blessing of the Heavenly Officials" commandment, on which there are bats flying from the sky, which means that the heavens have blessed the world.
The Taoists of the Eastern Han Dynasty believed that the heavenly qi was born, so the heavenly officials managed to "bless"; the earthly qi was the master, so the local officials managed to "forgive sins"; the water qi was subjective, so the water officials managed to "relieve the evil". Because of the misfortunes, blessings, honors, and disgraces of the people in charge of the three officials, the people deeply believe in the three officials.
In ancient times, on the fifteenth day of the first month, people had to prepare rich sacrifices from the morning, worship the Emperor Tianguan, and pray for the blessings of Tianguan.
The fifteenth day of the first month has a lot of customs and culture, which has been passed down to this day, and every year on the fifteenth day of the first month, you will definitely eat the Lantern Festival (TangYuan), and not eating the Lantern Festival is equivalent to not having the Lantern Festival. The Lantern is round, representing reunion, harmony and beauty. On the fifteenth night of the first month, there are also flower lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, playing with dragon lanterns, and stepping on stilt lamps, which add more festive atmosphere to the festival.
Warm reminder: Different regions, customs and cultures are different, do not need to delve deeply.
brief summary
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the day of blessing for all the officials of the Shangyuan Heavenly Officials. Most Chinese people believe that the heavenly officials in the three officials are the gods of blessing, and Taoism has the saying that the heavenly officials are blessed, so people are very religious.
Folk have a lot of customs and entertainment culture. Eating lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, making flower lanterns, playing with dragon lanterns, and stepping on stilts are all traditional customs and cultures of the Chinese nation.
Eating lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, making flower lanterns, playing with dragon lanterns, stepping on stilts and other customs and cultures are the traditional customs of our Chinese nation, which we need to understand and inherit. Are you right?