Lantern Festival | spend a good full moon night, when the sun is full

New Year's 15th,

It's the first full moon night of the year,

It is also a monistic restoration,

The night of the rejuvenation of the earth,

People celebrate that,

It is also a continuation of the celebration of the Chinese New Year.

On the first night

Don Tri liquid

Jade leak copper pot and Mo urge,

The iron lock opens all night;

Whoever sees the moon can sit idly,

Where to smell the lights do not look.

Fifteen nights to watch the lights

Don Lu Zhaolin

Jinli opened a feast, Lan Hongyan's early years.

The colors are far apart, and the light is far away.

The stars of Han doubt fell, and the building seemed to hang like a moon.

Don't have a thousand golden smiles, come to reflect the front of the nine branches.

New Year's 15-Night Light

Tang Zhanghu

A thousand doors are opened and locked, and the capital is moved in the middle of the month.

Three hundred people danced with their sleeves in their sleeves, and once they entered the heavens, they wrote words.

Qingyu case · New Year's Eve

Song Dynasty: Xin abandoned the disease

Flowers and trees bloom at night in the east wind. 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.

Magnolia Ling Lantern seems to be a good swim

Song Su Shi

The Lantern seems to be a good swim. Moreover, there are few lawsuits in the public court.

Wanjia tour to enjoy the Spring Terrace, ten miles of gods and immortals lost to the island.

The plains are not like Gao Yang's pride. Promote Xi Grace to smile.

The guests in the sitting are the most affectionate, and they do not hesitate to get drunk on Yushan Mountain.

Barkin: The full moon is embedded in a blue canopy like a jade disk

On the night of the Lantern Festival, the weather was very good. There were a few shining stars in the sky, a few white clouds, and a full moon embedded in the blue canopy like a jade disk.

On this evening, everyone prayed to God as usual, and quickly completed the ceremony. Jue Ying took Jue Qun to the street to watch people burn dragon lanterns. Rui Jue and Shuying sisters thought that Qin would go home the next day, and they both had a feeling of farewell, although the two families were not far apart, they rarely had the opportunity to play with Qin for a few whole days. And once the Lantern Festival is over, the New Year's Festival is over, and everyone has their own affairs, and they can no longer play as happily as in the New Year. So everyone got together and discussed how to spend the night in The New Room. Everyone agreed with Juexin's proposal: go boating in the garden.

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They walked into the bamboo forest, and the lights were gone. The bamboo forest was not very dense, and there was a sheep intestine trail in the middle. The moonlight shines directly down from above. As soon as one looks up, one can see the clear blue sky. The bamboo shoots trembled slightly, making a slight sound, and at the same time people heard the water flowing, but they did not know where the water came from, and when they were about to finish walking through the bamboo forest, they saw a small stream in front of them.

——Excerpt from "Home"

Wang Zengqi: At that time, the Lantern Festival was quiet

The lights in each room were lit. In the house of the great aunt (great aunt) are four glass square lamps. In the second mother's house, there is a white bright corner glass lamp painted with red shou characters, and there is a bead lamp. My stepmother's house is lit with red glass bubbles, a room of lights, bright and gentle, very auspicious.

Go out on the street to see the marquee. Lian Wanshun's family's marquee is very large. "The countrymen don't know how to walk the marquee,—— is coming again." The marquee is nothing more than the shadow of a car, a horse, or a man (a soldier) spinning back and forth, but you can also watch it turn a few times. Later, I also made one myself, lit a candle, and watched the paper wheel inside turn up, and the shadow reflected on the paper screen outside, and I was very happy. Qian Majesty's marquee does not "go", just a rectangular cardboard box, there are some colorful villains on the white paper on the front, the villain is connected to a hair, the candle burns the hair, and the hands and feet of the villain will move up and down. Although it does not "go", we still call it a marquee. Or what lamp is it called? The villains on the outside are Tang Monk, Sun Wukong, Pig Eight Precepts, and Sand Monk. The whole picture shows the Tang monks taking the scriptures from the "Journey to the West".

Kids have their own lights. Rabbit lights, hydrangea lamps, horse lamps... Rabbit lights are mostly made by themselves. Below an ann four rudders can be dragged away. The rabbit lamp is actually not much like a rabbit, the face is round, the eyes are curved, like human eyes, and there are two curved eyebrows! Hydrangea lamps and horse lamps are bought. A hydrangea lamp is a multi-faceted paper-tied ball with a frame made of grates. There is a bamboo pole on the shelf, and there are two rudders under the shelf, holding the bamboo pole in hand, pushing forward, and the ball keeps rolling. The horse lamp is two segments, one horse head and one horse butt, tied to the body with a strap. Watermelon lights, shrimp toad lights, fish lights, these portable lights, are played by children.

There is one custom that may not be found in the field: looking at the fence. Hardwood rectangular frame, about three feet high, half a foot wide, inlaid with silk, on the brush to perform the novel character story, before the festival of lights, a hall around the screen about thirty, behind the screen to light candles. This is actually a well-lit comic strip. There are two places on the screen, one is in the side hall of the Lianyang Temple, and the other is in the fire temple attached to the City God Temple. Lianyang guan painting is "List of Fengshen Gods", the fire temple painting is "Three Kingdoms", how many years have been watching the screen, but still every year. It seems that if you don't look at the screen, it is not a festival.

——Excerpt from "Lantern Festival in Hometown"

Xiao Fuxing: The lanterns of the Lantern Festival are small encyclopedias

The traditional Spring Festival begins with firecrackers on the Chinese New Year's Eve night and ends with the lanterns on the first night. An earth-shaking sound, a brilliant and dazzling color, reflecting the unique imagination of Chinese.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival looks at the lights, the old Beijingers are generally called "visiting the lantern market", or called "noisy flower lanterns", there are also called "stepping on the lantern festival", the Republic of China bamboo branch words have "silver candle shadow in the bright moon, meet each other is a stepping lamp person." Whether it is a "shopping" word, or a "noisy" word, or a "stepping" word, it reflects the publicity of the Lantern Festival at that time. I thought that only When Lichun was called "biting spring", "fighting spring", and "stepping on spring" could it be fought against and compared with it. That momentum is similar to western carnival, right? It's all a catharsis of the mood to welcome the arrival of spring, right?

I admire the wisdom of Chinese, a simple lamp, in our hands, can change a thousand times, showing a rich and endless imagination. In the "Chronicle of Kyoto Customs and Things", there was once such a record of lanterns: "Its lamps have the same size, height, length, and square circle, and there are yarn paper, glass, sheep's horns, and the difference between the Western Ocean, and its painted characters are the figures of the nations, the Three Kingdoms, the Journey to the West, the Fengshen, the Water Margin, the Zhiyi, etc., the flowers are orchids, roses, Xuan, bamboo, and peonies, and the animals are luanfeng, dragons, tigers, even horses, cattle, cats, dogs, fish, shrimps, insects, and ants. "Here, people are already seeing that the lamp is not a lamp, and there are more symbolic meanings and beautiful wishes in the lamp." In the colorful light illusion, there is a traditional Chinese culture, including aesthetics, temperament, interest, prayer and folklore, and many aspects of the lamp, which are gathered together to be a small encyclopedia.

——Excerpt from "Lantern Festival Lights"

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