In ancient traditional festivals, the Lantern Festival is full of romance. "On New Year's Eve last year, the flower market was lit up like day. The moon is on the willow tip, and the person is about after dusk. Ouyang Xiu's "Sheng Cha Zi Yuan Xi" is described concisely and clearly, showing the affection of boys and girls huaichun to the fullest. In ancient poems, the grandeur and romantics describing the Lantern Festival abound, and it is quite interesting to savor it.
The poetry and painting match can better reflect the artistic conception of the Lantern Festival. Southern Song Dynasty painter Li Song painted "Viewing Lights", depicting the scene of the Song people enjoying the lanterns in the rhythm of the Lantern Festival. The Southern Song Dynasty poet Dai Retro Poetry said: "The lights return to the day in the middle of the night, and the orchestra moves the spring wind." "The theme of the poem and the picture is very appropriate. From many poems, we can appreciate the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture.
Xin wrote "live" the Lantern Festival
Among the many love stories related to the Lantern Festival, "Breaking the Mirror and Reuniting" is touching. When the Sui Dynasty army destroyed Southern Chen, Princess Lechang of Southern Chen and her husband Xu Deyan broke a bronze mirror and held half of each as proof of future meetings. And agreed to sell mirrors in the city during the Lantern Festival in the following year to explore each other's news. It was easy to look forward to the fifteenth day of the first month of the second year, Xu Deyan, after all kinds of hardships and upheavals, finally rushed to the city street, and sure enough, he saw an old man selling half a piece of copper mirror, and the price was expensive, so that people did not dare to ask. Xu Deyan looked at the half-piece copper mirror and knew that his wife had fallen, and he couldn't help but burst into tears. He did not dare to be sloppy, busy according to the price asked by the old man to give money, and took out the other half of his treasured bronze mirror, and cried silently... The old man who sold the mirror was moved to tears and promised to pass on the news. Xu Deyan inscribed a poem, and the old man brought it to Princess Lechang. The poem reads: "The mirror goes with the person, and the mirror returns to the person." There is no shadow of Chang'e, leaving the bright moon in the air. This good story is spread everywhere, so there is an allusion to the broken mirror and the reunion.
It is precisely because of the romance of the Lantern Festival that there is a meeting between Princess Taiping and the handsome warrior Xue Shao in the "Words of daming palace", and there is an encounter between Yunxian and Yingzong in the "Biography of the Female Doctor Ming Concubine". On the night of the Lantern Festival, ancient single young people took to the streets to admire the lanterns, visit the flower market, the moon shadow doubtful flowing water, the spring wind with night plums, and looking forward to the heart-pounding fate of "encountering under the lamp".
Among the works of ancient poetry, Xin Renjie's "Qingyu Case , New Year's Eve" describes the situation of the Lantern Night. "The east wind blooms a thousand trees at night. More blowing down, the stars like rain. BMW carved car fragrant road. The sound of the phoenix vibrates, the jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dance all night. Moth snow willow golden wisps. Laughter filled the dark incense. The multitudes looked for him a thousand times. Suddenly looking back, the man was there, and the lights were dimmed. "What a lively Lantern Festival it must have been." The fire tree silver blossoms bloom in the night sky, brilliant and brilliant. Clusters of shiny bouquets of flowers that opened between rises and falls quickly withered, and what did not die was the joy it brought. Perhaps it is precisely because of its brevity that people feel cherished. Just as the Yiren glanced back for a short time, a glimpse of surprise, and then disappeared in the blink of an eye. But the shallow smile was already imprinted on his heart, dragging his search for it.
In "The 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" was popular among the people, and his conception was exquisite, the language was exquisite, the subtlety was subtle, and the aftertaste was endless. In the modern Kingdom Wei in "Words and Sayings on Earth", those who become great undertakings and university inquirers in ancient and modern times must pass through three realms: "Last night the west wind withered the green tree." Go up to the tall building alone and look at the end of the world. "This first realm also." The belt gradually widened and finally did not regret it, and was haggard for the people of Ishwa. "This second realm also." The multitudes looked for him a thousand times, and looked back, but the man was there, and the lights were dimmed. "This third realm also. None of these words are incomprehensible to the great word.
Song Dynasty Li Song "Guan Lantern Map" Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
The Tang Dynasty poet Su Wei once wrote in a poem "The Fifteenth Night of the First Month": "The fire tree and the silver flower are combined, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened." Dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one. The prostitutes are all plums, and the songs are all plums. Kingo couldn't help but be at night, and the jade leaked uncontrollably. The poem describes the scene of the Lantern Night in Chang'an City where the lights are staggered and the crowds are surging and people are still reluctant to leave at the time of deep change. Read carefully, close your eyes and think about it, you will have a wonderful feeling of being in the capital of the Tang Dynasty and sleepwalking in the sea of lights. Of course, this poem also has another meaning, that is, ancient women, when it comes to the Lantern Festival, can go to the vast sea of people to find their own happiness.
Li Shangyin's poem describes the grand scenery of Chang'an
The Lantern Festival is the result of the development of candlelight sacrifices, and the worship of all peoples has evolved into the celebration of all peoples, and the lantern festival has become the earliest carnival in folklore. According to the records of the three kings Lang in the "Story of Qin Heshuo", the night of the Lantern Festival in the Qin Dynasty was already a "hundred lantern tree", "the end gate set up a court to burn the torch, the end gate set up a five-foot three-foot lamp, the moon shines brightly, although the night is still day". In the Tang Dynasty, when playing the most luxurious, Zhang Que said in "Chao Ye You Zai" that on the fifteenth day of the first month of the second year of Ruizong's birth, he made a lamp wheel outside the Anfu Gate of the Beijing Division, twenty zhang high, golden jade splendid packaging, and burned 50,000 lamps.
The great Tang Dynasty poet Lu Zhaolin's "Fifteen Nights to Watch the Lanterns" describes the grand situation of the Lantern Festival in this way: "The stars of the Han Dynasty are falling, and the building is like a moon hanging." It means that the lights and fireworks connecting the Tianhe River are like stars falling down, and the lights of the tall buildings are like the moon hanging in the air, which shows the extensive participation and carnival degree of people. Tang Xuanzong even made a 150-foot-tall lamp house with 30 rooms. The hundred lantern trees made by Yang Guifei's second sister are 80 feet high, and they are dazzling and can be seen in hundreds of miles. People broke the boundaries of identity, temporarily abandoned the rules and etiquette, and enjoyed this pleasant moment in the empty alleys and lights.
Li Shangyin wrote in the poem "Watching the Lanterns and Enjoying the Journey": "The moonlight lamp mountain is full of emperors, and the xiangche baogai passes through the qu. Idle and not to see the prosperity of the middle, shame on the villager Sai Zigu. "The moonlight in the sky and the lights on the ground filled the capital, the traffic of celebration blocked the avenue, the rich and noble gathered in Chang'an, the good life was lively, although the poet was idle, he did not go to the imperial capital to see the grand situation of the Lantern Festival, and only worshiped the Purple Gu God at home with the villagers. In the Tang Dynasty, the grand scene of the flower lanterns of the First Yuan Night of the Mirage Sea City "The stars of the mirage and the silver blossoms never sleep" can be seen.
Boy holding a fish chandelier (Qing) Collection of the Palace Museum
The romance of the Lantern Festival is to watch the lights with you and see the beautiful scenery of the city. Song Dynasty anonymous "Partridge Heaven Shangyuan" word cloud: "The sun greets the royal return, and the palace flowers carry the road brocade into piles." The whip sounded by the side of the Tianjin Bridge, and the fan shadow in front of the Xuande Building opened. Play Shun music, enter the Yao cup, and preach the car immediately on the street. The king rejoiced with the people, and came with tremors on all sides. "This poem describes the grand situation of the Lantern Festival in the capital of the Song Huizong Dynasty, the emperor and the people rejoiced, the big officials and small officials hugged before and after, the common people flocked to it, everyone wore all kinds of flowers on their heads, all the way to see, zi yan red, dazzling, like a sea of flowers.
When people talk about the Song Dynasty, they all praise the prosperity of the Song Dynasty. Wang Anshi, a famous reformer and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, also couldn't help but give poetry: "Cars and horses are the same day and day, and the lights of thousands of homes are warm and spring." Wang Anshi's best works also include "Passing on the Three Drums, Looking at the Unity of Ten Thousand People", "But after a thousand years, chasing the Taiping Gong". According to legend, the earliest lantern association on the mainland, "The world is three clear moons and nights, yangzhou ten miles of small red chamber" appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. In addition, a pair of lantern fun things that have achieved two major events in Wang Anshi's life are also talked about. It is said that when Wang Anshi was 20 years old, he went to Beijing to take the exam, and when he passed by a certain place during the Lantern Festival, he saw a family hanging high with a marquee lamp, and under the lamp hung up the upper league, soliciting relatives. Lian Yue: "The marquee, the lamp goes, the lamp goes out and the horse stops." Wang Anshi was unable to face up for a moment, so he silently remembered it in his heart. Arriving in the capital, the chief examiner took out the flying tiger flag fluttering with the wind to the opposite "flying tiger flag, flag flying tiger, flag roll tiger hiding." Wang Anshi responded by recruiting relatives and was made a jinshi. Passing by the family when he returned to his hometown, he heard that there was still no one to match the family association, so he returned to the family with the chief examiner, and as a result, he was recruited as a son-in-law.
Tang Bohu's Lantern Festival is beautiful and touching
During the Lantern Festival, everyone eats tangyuan. Tangyuan and its materials are also recorded in ancient poems. Zhou Bida of the Song Dynasty wrote in the "Lantern Night Boiling Floating Yuanzi": "This night is the night, and the reunion is the same." Tang Guan patrolled the old taste, and the stove maid was surprised by the new work. In the dark clouds, the beads float in the turbid water. When he was young, he made up a miscellaneous chant, with this saying family style. "The Lantern Festival symbolizes reunion. Qing Dynasty Fu once wrote the "Shangyuan Bamboo Branch Words": "Osmanthus fragrant stuffing wrapped in walnuts, river rice like pearl well water Tao." See said that the Ma family drop powder is good, try the lantern wind to sell lanterns. "Not only did he tell what kind of stuffing and rice the Lantern was made of, but even whose flour was good and the plate was also put out."
Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, in order to "enjoy with the people" during the Lantern Festival, personally climbed the Xuande Building to watch the lantern and "give wine". Any lady who looks up at the "holy face" downstairs can receive a glass of wine. It is said that a woman took the opportunity to steal a golden cup and was found to be taken to the imperial court for interrogation. This woman was anxious and wise, composed a poem "Partridge Heaven", and chanted in front of the saint: "The moon is full of brilliant lamps, and lang joins hands to the end gate." Greedily watching the crane array sheng song, I don't feel that the Mandarin ducks have lost the flock. As dawn dawned, he thanked the Emperor for his kindness and preached that he had given him a cup of wine. Returning home was afraid of being blamed by Weng Gu and stealing the golden cup as a proof. After Hearing this, Emperor Huizong of Song greatly praised this female intelligence, and not only did not punish her, but "gave it with a golden cup."
Tang Bohu, a Liuru resident of Jiangnan who is known for his cynicism and talent, also wrote a popular poem "Lantern" on the Yuan Festival: "There is no light without a moon that does not entertain people, and there is no moon without lights that is not a spring." Spring to the human world is like jade, and the lamp burns the moon and the next month is like silver. Full of streets Zhucui tour village women, boiling ground sheng song Saishe god. Don't show Fang Zun to laugh, how to get rid of this good day. "Tang Bohu's Lantern Festival is beautiful and touching. Closely combined with the specific environment of the Lantern Festival, I express my feelings. The lights and moons shine, the songs are everywhere, and even the village girls wear red and green to travel, and the scene is very spectacular and moving. In particular, the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. "Full of streets zhucui tour village girl, boiling land sheng song saishe god." The sound and color are painted, and the Lantern scene appears in front of you. "If you don't show Fangzun to laugh, how to get rid of this good day." Blurted out, and finally ended with emotion. The so-called "good day", "entertaining people", "sheng song", "opening the mouth to laugh" and "eliminating the good day" are connected into a line to form a picture of Lantern Joy.
The Lantern Festival has left many beautiful poems of poets of past generations, such as: "Fire trees and honeysuckles, star bridge iron lock open", "cars gallop horses suddenly lantern square noise, the ground quiet people idle moon self-Yan", "Zhu Lun painting hub, carved saddle Jade Le", "spring full of Aoshan Mountain, night sinking land and sea". At the same time, a series of myths surrounding the Moon Palace, such as Chang'e Running Moon, Wu Gang Fa Gui, Tang Ming Emperor You Yue Palace and other allusions, are painted into colored lanterns for people to enjoy. They compete with the moon in the sky and dress up the city of China. In the moonlight of peace and kindness, people's hearts are quiet and soft, and no matter what kind of celebration they are engaged in, they gently touch the softest place in our hearts.
Nowadays, although the times have changed, the Lantern Festival is still a spiritual symbol that we cannot give up, and people are still accustomed to reuniting in the festival.