It is said that time is like water, and in the blink of an eye, it has come to the fifteenth day of the first month - the Lantern Festival!
Lantern Festival as the traditional festival of our Chinese nation, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, New Year's Eve or Lantern Festival, it is the first full moon night of the year, but also the beginning of the spring return to the earth, the beginning of the recovery of all things, condensing the national feelings and cultural origins of the sons and daughters of China.
The Lantern Festival is celebrated nationwide. (Data map issued by the Central Broadcasting Network)
There is an old folk saying that "the fifteenth is the year", which shows that the fifteenth day of the first month is a very important part of the Spring Festival festival, which undertakes the finishing work.
The first month is also known as the first month, 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". After the fifteenth day of the first month, spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, and people have to start another year of hard work and labor.
At the beginning of the year, the Chinese people especially hope to have a good omen and be able to make good luck. Therefore, people also attach special importance to the celebration of various festivals of the Lantern Festival. For example, "flower lanterns", "dragon and lion dances", "guessing lantern riddles", "stilts" and other lively and interesting folk activities. And a relatively common state of these folk activities is to highlight a "noisy" word.
"The moon is on the willow tip, and the man is about after dusk." On the day of the "Shangyuan Festival" in the Tang Dynasty, there was a habit of setting off flower lanterns and not curfewing in the city. The people who have worked hard for a year use such a moment to release their emotions and celebrate the return of spring to the earth, and use this to adjust their physical and mental state and prepare for the new year's productive labor. The various festival celebrations on the fifteenth day of the first month have also attracted countless young men and women to take to the streets for a casual encounter, which is vividly described by the big lyricist Xin Shujie:
"Moth snow willow golden wisps, laughter full of dark incense." The multitudes looked for him a thousand times. Suddenly looking back, the man was there, and the lights were dimmed. ”
The custom of eating the Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month began in the Song Dynasty. The round and rolling Lantern is "shaken" with glutinous rice flour, the surface is rough, the cooking soup is cloudy, and the "Fried Lantern" is unique. The southern tangyuan is wrapped up, the surface is smooth, and the filling is richer, but it is limited to boiling, not fried.
Stalls that shake the Lantern are no longer common. (Data map issued by the Central Broadcasting Network)
Eat a bowl of Lantern, enjoy the scenery along the way, and be at ease with the years; think about the present future, wave your hand, and rush to the sea of stars tomorrow.
(Reporter Pang Miao, intern Dong Jiawei synthesis)