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The fifteenth day of the first month # Lantern Festival#, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, New Year's Eve, lantern festival in ancient times, is the most lively festival in ancient times. As early as the Han Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first month has become a large-scale folk festival, and by the Tang and Song dynasties, the Lantern Festival was even more prosperous. On this day, people go out to admire the lanterns, guess the riddles, and set off fireworks, and the officials will lift the curfew, and even the royal family will go out of the palace to enjoy the lantern festival and enjoy with the people. Its liveliness is arguably the most festive of the year.
Such a festival, naturally there is no shortage of Tang poems and Song poems. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, many poets and lyricists have written poems for the Lantern Festival, most of which are Song words. The most famous such as Xin Abandoned Disease, "The East Wind Blooms a Thousand Trees at Night, and Blows Down the Stars Like Rain" depicts a lively festival. There is also "the head of the willow on the moon, after the people are about dusk", which depicts the meeting scene of young men and women on the night of the Lantern Festival.
In the Song Dynasty, the lyrics of the Lantern Festival abound, and famous artists such as Xin Shuyi, Su Dongpo, Li Qingzhao, Jiang Jie, and He Zhu have all been handed down. However, there are not many poems written about the Lantern Festival in Tang poems, and they are all concentrated in the early Tang Dynasty. In particular, the poem "Fifteen Nights of the First Month" by the early Tang Dynasty poet Su Wei became the ceiling of the Tang Dynasty Lantern Festival poems:
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New Year's 15th Night
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The fire tree and silver blossoms, the star bridge iron lock open.
Dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one.
The wandering tricks are all plums, and the songs are all plums.
Kingo couldn't help but be at night, and the jade leaked uncontrollably.
Su Wei was a poet of the early Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian period, and he was known as the Four Friends of the Article together with Du Zhenyan, Li Zhao, and Cui Rong, and was on a par with Shen Qi and Song Zhiqing. They all played a great role in promoting the development of Gelug poetry in the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, most of the poems written by these poets are imitation poems. Su Wei's "Fifteen Nights of the First Moon" is a poem that should be produced.
The so-called poems are poems written on the orders of the emperor. According to records, during the Wu Zetian period, flower lanterns were displayed in the eastern capital luoyang during the Lantern Festival, and the city without curfew can be described as a sea of people, and the lanterns everywhere are illuminated like daylight. Wu Zetian was overjoyed and ordered the Chinese to compose hundreds of poems. Among them, the poems of Su Wei, Cui Li and Guo Lizhen were pushed to be sung for a while. After thousands of years, the poems of Cui Li and Guo Lizhen have long been forgotten, but Su Wei's "Fifteen Nights of the First Moon" is still circulating, from a temporary song to a song of eternity.
The opening line of this poem is a great song: "The fire tree and silver blossom are combined, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened"! The phrase "fire trees and silver flowers" depicts the scene of flower lanterns everywhere in the city. The iron lock of the Star Bridge means that the gate of the imperial city is open and passed everywhere. The city that used to be a black hole cave at night is dotted with flower lanterns and fireworks on the night of the Lantern Festival like a gorgeous Milky Way!
"Dark dust goes with the horses, the bright moon comes one by one" is to depict the lights will be the flow of cars and horses, the cars and horses are running, tourists are in succession, bustling, the bright moon is with each other, and the flower lanterns and the bright moon are shining together to reflect the lively scene of the car water and horse dragons.
The neck link is a further depiction of the lively tourists, and the "wandering tricks" are deliberately picked out from the bustling tourists for close-up. The wandering tricks are the singers and dancers of the princes and ministers in the Tang Dynasty, who show their flowers and branches, dance and sing at the same time, becoming a beautiful scenery at the Lantern Festival.
At the end of the couplet, "Kingo can't help the night, the jade leaks Mo Xiang urges" means that there is no curfew tonight, and this beautiful scenery must not be hurriedly passed! The words revealed their attachment to the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival at this moment, and the aftertaste of reading was endless.
The whole poem is gorgeous in words, depicts a splendid and colorful scene, and is neat and tidy, and the sentences are correct, which can be regarded as a model of the five laws of the early Tang Dynasty. In the poems of the Lantern Festival in previous dynasties, this poem is also a masterpiece. Later generations commented: There are few ancient and modern Lantern poems, and those who are good at five words have no such articles!