Strings and strings boil this night,
The flower lantern is ten miles away.
Today is the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month
This is also called the traditional festival of Shangyuan Festival and Spring Lantern Festival
It is Chinese pursuit
A wish for reunion and fulfillment
What is the origin of the Lantern Festival?
What are the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival?
What are these verses about the Lantern Festival?
Let's learn it with Xiaobian.
1. The origin of the Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China
As early as 2,000 years ago, the Qin Dynasty existed
Lantern Festival, originally meaning "the night of the First Yuan Festival"
Because of the fifteenth day of the first month of the "Shangyuan Festival" the main activities are
Eat tangyuan in the evening to enjoy the moon
Later, the name of the festival evolved into "Lantern Festival"
Lantern Festival compared to other festivals
More prominent theme of universal celebration
As the final climax of the Spring Festival
The Lantern Festival emphasizes the participation of the whole people
What is shown is one
"Fire tree honeysuckle, star bridge iron lock open"
A lively scene
2. Customs of the Lantern Festival
Eat the Lantern
Eating the Lantern On the fifteenth day of the first month is a long-standing custom in China. Lantern is "Tangyuan", its ingredients have different flavors, but eating the Lantern represents the same meaning: it represents reunion and harmony, and the days become more and more prosperous.
Guess the riddle
"Guessing the Riddle", also known as "Riddle of the Lantern", is a Lantern Festival activity added after the Southern Song Dynasty. The riddle was first developed from riddles, and the riddles hung over the lamp for people to guess, beginning in the Southern Song Dynasty. Because riddles inspire wisdom and interest, they are popular with all walks of life.
Decorations
Since the formation of the Lantern Festival, the fifteen lanterns of the first month have been a major event for thousands of years. On this night, countless people played the lantern viewing. Everyone stayed up all night, enjoying the fun, and the excitement was very lively.
Play with dragon lights
Dragon Lantern, also known as Dragon Dance Lantern or Dragon Dance. Its origins can be traced back to antiquity. Legend has it that as early as the Time of the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance called "Qingjiao", the image of the dragon head bird body played by a person appeared, and then six dragons interspersed with each other's dance scenes were choreographed.
Lion Dance
The "Lion Dance", also known as the "Lion Dance" and "Taiping Music", is generally completed by three people: one person acts as the lion's head, one person acts as the lion's body and hind feet, and one person acts as a lion usher. There is also a distinction between culture and martial arts in the dance method, the literary dance shows the gentleness of the lion, there are movements such as shaking hair, rolling and so on; the martial lion shows the ferocity of the lion, there are leaps, high, rolling color balls and other actions.
Stilts
Stilt walking is a popular mass performance of skills in the folk. Stilts are one of the hundred plays of ancient China, which have appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.
Go a hundred sick
Walking a hundred diseases is a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing dynasties, also known as traveling hundred diseases, scattering hundred diseases, roasting hundred diseases, walking bridges, etc., which is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for health. On the night of the Lantern Festival, women meet to travel, travel together, see the bridge must be crossed, think that this can get rid of the disease and prolong the life.
3. Poetry of the Lantern Festival
《New Year's 15-Night Light》
【Tang Dynasty】 Zhang Hu
A thousand doors are unlocked and ten thousand lights are bright, and the imperial capital is moved in the middle of the first month.
Three hundred people danced with their sleeves, and for a moment there was a sound of words in the sky.
Interpretation: This poem describes the scene of families going out, empty alleys, enjoying themselves, and returning to the First Year's Eve, making the Shangyuan Lantern Festival the most poetic and soul-destroying moment.
《New Year's 15th Night》
【Tang Dynasty】Su taste
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.
Interpretation: This poem describes the scenery of the Lantern Night in Chang'an City. According to the "New Language of the Tang Dynasty" and the "New Record of the Two Capitals of the Tang Dynasty", every year on this night, flower lanterns are displayed in Chang'an City; for three days before and after, there is no martial law at night, and the people who see the lights are really crowded. The cars and horses of the rich and nobles are noisy, and the songs and laughter of the citizens are gathered together, and the whole night is spent in a lively atmosphere.
"Six Songs of the Night of the First Century·
【Tang Dynasty】Cui Liquid
Jade leaks silver pot and Mo urges, iron off gold lock open.
Who can sit idly by when they see the moon? Where does the smell of the lights not look?
Interpretation: "Who's home" and "where" these four words contain too much content, it will be the sound of people boiling, cars like flowing water, horses like dragons, lights flickering, bustling Beijing Lantern Night Scene in a word. The use of two consecutive cross-sentences not only expresses the meaning of the magnificent scenery and the meaning that people have to go to the point flexibly, but also gives people room for infinite aftertaste.
"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.
Interpretation: full of lights in the city, full of street tourists, fire trees and honeysuckle, all-night singing and dancing. However, the author's intention is not to write the scene, but to reflect the difference of the person who is "in the middle of the lights". This word depicts the lively scene of the lantern festival all night long, Liang Qichao said "self-pity and loneliness, sad people do not have arms." "Thinking that this word has sustenance can be described as a confidant."
"Sheng Cha Zi , New Year's Eve"
[Song Dynasty] Ouyang Xiu
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.
On New Year's Eve this year, the moon and lights are still there.
Not seeing last year's people, tears wet spring shirt sleeves.
Interpretation: Things are the sorrow of people, the desolation of the contrast between the present and the past, so the beautiful scenery has become a sad scene, and the night scene of the flower market intertwined with the moon and the lamp has changed from bright to dim. The sadness of indifference and coldness pervades the next piece of the word. Lamps, flowers, moons, and willows are, in the eyes of the protagonist, but the embodiment of desolation, the catalyst of sadness, and the testimony of acacia. Now the beauty is difficult to find, tearful eyes are also sad, tears are full of sleeves. Another: The author of this poem is still controversial, and there is also a saying that Zhu Shuzhen is Zhu Shuzhen.
"New Year's Eve"
[Song] Zhu Shuzhen
The fire tree honeysuckle is red, and the sky is open to the spring breeze.
The new joy began to be in the busy, and the old things were reminiscent of the dream.
I hope that if I am temporarily a person, I may wish to stay in the hazy moon.
The one who appreciates the lights is drunk, and may not be here next year.
Interpretation: As a traditional Valentine's Day, the bustling and lively Lantern Festival also provided opportunities for young men and women in ancient times to fall in love and date. The poem describes the scene of the lantern meeting at the Lantern Festival. "I hope that if I am temporarily an adult, I may as well stay in the moon hazy" - I don't want to worry about anything in love, it is a sentence of heart. Because this poem has the same tone of writing and thinking as "Last Year's New Year's Eve", it has become a proof of Zhu Zuo in the controversy over the public case of "Sheng Chazi".
"The Lantern of the Folding Laurel Order"
[Yuan] Anon
Love the Lantern 35 scenery,
The moonlight is beautiful, and the lights are brilliant.
The moon is full of ice wheels, the lights burn the land and sea, and people step on the spring sun.
Three beautiful things can be rewarded, and four ruthless and hateful.
Afraid of the dim light of the lamp, the quiet and desolate,
Corner Pin South Building, Moon Under the West Wing.
Interpretation: This song adopts the structure of starting and bearing and turning. In front of it is the brilliant lights and bustle of the Lantern Festival, and the back is the bleak scenery after the hustle and bustle. The contrast between the two makes people deeply feel the author's loneliness and poignancy.
"Butterfly Love Flower Mizhou Shangyuan"
[Song] Su Shi
Lights Qiantang three or five nights,
The moon is like frost, and the illumination is picturesque.
The bottom of the tent blows incense spit musk,
Not a little dust with the horse.
Lonely mountain city people old also!
Drumming and blowing, but into the Nongsang Society.
Fire cold lamp frost exposed,
The snow is falling in the wilderness.
Interpretation: The whole word is outlined with a rough pen, depicting different scenes of Hangzhou Shangyuan and Mizhou Shangyuan Festival, revealing the author's thoughts about Hangzhou and the lonely mood when he first came to Mizhou, but still not forgetting to care about people's livelihood. The image of "dusky snow means clouds hanging in the wilderness" seems to be miserable, but there is a kind of joy of "Ruixue Mega Year".
"Ancient Toad Palace , Lantern Festival"
[Ming Dynasty] Wang Pan
Listen to the Lantern Festival, the noise of the old days,
There are also a thousand songs and a thousand dances.
Listen to the Lantern, this year,
There are also a thousand sorrows, and there are also a thousand resentments.
Where are the red dust car BMW?
Just send the dusk ancient wood jackdaw.
Poetry also wears down, wine also wears down,
Snubbed the spring breeze, haggard plum blossoms.
Interpretation: This song is a work that reflects social reality. Xiao Ling described the lively and joyful atmosphere of the Lantern Festival in previous years, and at the same time wrote about the coldness of the Lantern Festival and the grievances of the people. The contrast between the present and the past reflects the decline of the Ming Dynasty and the deterioration of the people's lives, and expresses deep sympathy for the suffering and life of the common people, and expresses strong dissatisfaction with the cruel rule of the government.
"Lantern Festival"
[Ming] Tang Yin
There is no light without a moon that does not entertain people, and there is no light in the moon 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.
Interpretation: The usual Yuan Ye poems, mostly describing ancient urban scenes. And this "Lantern" is based on the countryside, and the whole poetry is beautiful and touching. The villages where the lights shine are beautiful, and the village girls under the lights and moons are even more beautiful. They are youthful, jubilant and laughing. It is worth mentioning that the ancients said: Lighting a lamp under the moon can be described as a big scenery. I am afraid that there is only one situation in which it is possible to "enjoy the lights under the moon", that is, on the day of the Lantern Festival!