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Romantic Lantern Festival
Yu Shuyu
"The east wind blooms a thousand trees at night, more blowing down, the stars are like rain, and the BMW carved car is fragrant all over the road." The sound of the phoenix vibrates, the jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dance all night. "Under the pen of Xin Zhiyi, the New Year's Eve grand situation with dazzling lanterns and full of music is like a beautiful picture scroll slowly unfolding in front of us.
Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, one of the traditional Chinese festivals, the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" as "supper", the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called "Lantern Festival". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by warm and festive lantern viewing customs, mainly including a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing flower lanterns, eating tangyuan, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks.
Tang Bohu, a great talent of the Ming Dynasty, once gave a poem: "There is no lamp without a moon, and there is no lamp in the moon that does not count spring." Spring to the human world is like jade, and the lamp burns the moon and the next month is like silver. The streets are full of pearls and green flowers, and the gods of the boiling song Saishe. Don't show FangZhuan to laugh, how to consume this good day. The Tang Dynasty poet Lu Zhaolin recited the ancient saying, "The stars of the Han Dynasty fall, and the building is like a moon hanging." Don't have a thousand golden smiles, come to reflect the front of the nine branches. Ouyang Xiu, a member of the Song Dynasty, also wrote in the poem: "On the first night of last year, the flower market was like a book; the moon was willow-headed, and people were about after dusk." These poems add poetry and romance to the Lantern Festival.
In the traditional feudal society, the Lantern Festival provides an opportunity for unmarried men and women to meet each other, and girls who have not left the cabinet in traditional society are not allowed to go out to move freely, but they can go out to play together on the Yuan Festival. The Lantern Festival flower viewing lantern is just an opportunity for socializing, and unmarried men and women also find objects for themselves by the way through the flower viewing lanterns.
During the Lantern Festival, it is also the time for young men and women to meet their lovers.
"The multitude looked for him a thousand times, and looked back, but the man was there, and the lights were dimmed." The First Yuan Festival has arrived, but I hope that you and the other (she) can talk to each other and add a touch of sweetness to this romantic New Year's Eve night.
Source: Sichuan Provincial Local History Work Office
Author: Yu Shuyu (Yibin University, Faculty of Literature and Music arts, Class of 2021, Class 4, Major in Chinese Language and Literature)
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