"Hurry to go, hurry to go, unconsciously come to the city of Bieliang, the husband and wife two city gates into, look up at the flower lanterns, the east is also the lamp, the west is also the lamp, the south is also the lamp, the north is also the lamp, and there is a noise in all directions." This is the lyrics in the traditional Huangmei Opera play "Husband and Wife Watching the Lantern".
It is said that on the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival, Wang Xiaoliu, a farmer on the outskirts of Bieliang City, went to the capital with his wife to see the lanterns. The couple rushed into the city of Bieliang, and the lively and colorful flower lanterns made the couple happy and unforgettable.
In the first month, the first month comes, and the fifteen and sixteen look at the flower lanterns. Today is the sixteenth day of the first month of the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, the last day of the Lantern Festival. The night of the fifteenth day of the first month has just fallen, and the county front street and Cangxiang street in the old town of Anyang City, Henan Province, have just been illuminated, and they are colorful, only to see the sea of people, and the tourists who see the lanterns are mesmerized.
Netizens said that the Cangxiang Street on the north side of the middle section of Wenfeng Avenue has too few flower lights and a single scene, and the Cangxiang Street is not as colorful as the lights of the county front street on the south side of the old city, and it is also said that it is better to enjoy the flower lanterns, taste snacks, and see the liveliness or go to the county front street. Compared with the 2019 New Year Lantern Festival, due to the special circumstances of this year, the traditional folk activities in these two historical and cultural neighborhoods are suspended, and there are many fewer items of folk culture and entertainment activities.
According to records, the official name of the Lantern Festival and the edict to the people of the whole country to celebrate it was Liu Heng, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was listed as a major national festival, and has been passed down from generation to generation. With the passage of time, the lantern festival has also increased its cultural and entertainment activities, and many local festivals have added folk performances such as dragon lantern playing, lion dance, stilt walking, and rowing dry boats.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, and it is also the night of the restoration of the unity and the rejuvenation of the earth. Lantern, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the night "supper", so call the fifteenth day of the first month as the Lantern Festival, is a grand traditional folk festival in the mainland. Since the Tang Dynasty, the folk have the custom of watching the lanterns at night, and on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, people should go out to admire the moon, display the lights, eat the Lantern Together, reunite with the family, and celebrate the festival.
Some netizens jokingly asked, what will the moon look like during the Lantern Festival? Oh, the fifteenth month of the first month is round! The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is usually the first full moon day of the Lunar New Year, and in special cases, the fifteenth moon is likely to be fourteenth, sixteenth, or seventeenth. According to professionals, the moon's orbit around the earth is an elliptical, near and far, due to gravity, the full moon may appear on any day of the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth or seventeenth lunar calendar. However, the moon on the fifteenth day of the first month is as charming as it is, and it does not affect your mood of viewing the moon during the Lantern Festival.
In addition to the folk tradition of Tanabata Valentine's Day, there is also a traditional "Valentine's Day" in China, and this Valentine's Day is the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. Perhaps you do not believe, netizens said that there are ancient poems as evidence, ancient poems "Last year, on the first night, the flower market lights like day, the moon on the willow tip, people about after dusk", "Yuan Ye" refers to the traditional festival is the Lantern Festival.
"The head of the willow on the moon, the person is about after dusk", from the Northern Song Dynasty literary scholar Ouyang Xiu's "Sheng Cha Zi Yuan Xi". Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072) was a Northern Song Dynasty writer and historian, with the character Yongshu (字永叔), who served as a general judge in Huazhou. Some scholars also believe that this "Sheng Cha Zi Yuan Xi" of Yuan Ye love the old may have been written by Zhu Shuzhen, and it has long been believed that Ouyang Xiu wrote it, but in fact, he was afraid of ruining the social atmosphere at that time, so he changed the author to Ouyang Xiu. Zhu Shuzhen (朱淑真), a female lyricist of the Song Dynasty, was born in Shezhou, Anhui (歙州, in modern Shexian County, Anhui Province), and is said to be the daughter of Zhu Xi. Zhu Shuzhen is a poet of the Scriptures, and is known as a talented woman. According to legend, because his parents were in charge, he married a grammar official. Because of his incompatibility, his life was very unsatisfactory, and he ended up depressed, and his tomb was in Qingzhiwu, Hangzhou. (Wang Jian'an Photography)