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One of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The following is the origin and legend of the Lantern Festival that I carefully collected for you. Welcome to forward the collection!

Legend of Lantern Festival 1 Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which existed in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. During the reign of Emperor Wen, the fifteenth day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month. Taiyi: the God who rules the universe. When Sima Qian created the taichu calendar Law, he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.

There are several interesting legends about the origin of the Lantern Festival:

Legend of lamp

Legend has it that a long time ago, there were many fierce birds and beasts everywhere that hurt people and livestock, so people organized to defeat them. A god bird was trapped and landed on the earth, but was accidentally shot by an unsuspecting hunter. The Emperor of Heaven was very angry when he learned that. He immediately issued a decree, ordering the heavenly soldiers to set fire to the land on the fifteenth day of the first month, burning all the people, livestock and property. The daughter of the Emperor of Heaven is kind-hearted. She couldn't bear to see the innocent suffering of the people, so she risked her life and secretly rushed Xiangyun to the world to tell people the news. When people heard the news, it was like a blow to the head. I'm so scared that I don't know what to do. After a long time, an old man came up with an idea. He said: "On the 14th, 15th and 16th of the first month, every family decorated their houses, set off firecrackers and set off fireworks. In this way, the emperor will think that people have been burned to death. "

Everyone nodded and said yes, and they were ready to go separately. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the emperor looked down and found that for three consecutive nights, the world was red and the noise was deafening. He thought it was the flame of a big fire, and soon. In this way, people saved their lives and property. In order to commemorate this success, every household hangs lanterns and sets off fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first month to commemorate this day.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty set it up to commemorate Pinglu.

Another legend is that the Lantern Festival was established by Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty to commemorate Pinglu. After the death of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Lv Hou's son Liu Ying became Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty. Hui Di was born weak and indecisive, and power gradually fell into the hands of Lv Hou. After Hui Di's death, he monopolized state affairs and turned Liu's world into Lu's. The old courtiers and Liu's imperial clan were deeply indignant, but they were afraid of cruelty and dared not speak out.

After Lv Hou's death, Zhu Lu has been in a state of anxiety, afraid of being hurt and excluded. So, they secretly assembled in the home of the generals in the world and plotted to make trouble in order to completely seize Liu's country.

This incident reached the ears of Liu Nang, the king of Qi in the Liu clan. In order to protect Liu's country, Liu Nang decided to fight Zhu Lu. Then, he contacted the founding fathers Zhou Bo and Chen Ping, and planned to get rid of Lv Lu. Finally, the "Zhu Lu Rebellion" was completely put down.

After the rebellion, the ministers made Liu Heng, the second son of Liu Bang, emperor and called him Emperor Wen. Impressed by the hard-won peace and prosperity, Emperor Wen designated the 15th day of the first month of the first month to quell the "Zhu-Lu Rebellion" as a day to have fun with the people, and every household in Beijing celebrated with lanterns and colorful decorations. Since then, the fifteenth day of the first month has become a popular folk festival-"Lantern Festival".

Dong Fangshuo and Yuanxiao Girl

This legend is related to the custom of eating Yuanxiao: According to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a favorite named Dong Fangshuo, who was kind and funny. One winter, it snowed heavily for several days, and Dong Fangshuo went to the Imperial Garden to fold plum blossoms for Emperor Wu. As soon as I entered the garden gate, I found a maid-in-waiting in tears ready to throw herself into the well. Dong Fangshuo rushed forward to help and asked her why she committed suicide. It turns out that this maid-in-waiting is named Yuanxiao, and there are parents and a sister at home. She has never seen her family since she entered the palace. Every spring comes, I miss my family more than usual. I think in front of my parents, I would rather die than be filial. Dong Fangshuo expressed deep sympathy for her suffering and assured her that she would try her best to reunite with her family.

One day, Dong Fangshuo left the palace and set up a divination pavilion on Chang 'an Avenue. Many people are scrambling to find him for divination. Unexpectedly, what everyone wants is the signature of "burning us on the 16th day of the first month". Suddenly, there was a panic in Chang 'an. People are looking for a solution to the disaster. Dong Fangshuo said, "On the 13th night of the first month, Vulcan will send a goddess in red to visit the earth. She is the messenger who ordered the burning of Chang 'an. I'll give you the copied poem and let the emperor do something. " Say that finish, then dropped a red pillar and roared off. The people picked up the red post and quickly sent it to the palace to report to the emperor.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took it and read: "Chang 'an is robbing, and the imperial palace is being burned. It has been burning for fifteen days, and the midnight snack is red." He was so scared that he hurriedly invited resourceful Dong Fangshuo. Dong Fangshuo thought for a moment and said, "I heard that Vulcan likes to eat dumplings. Don't Yuanxiao in the palace often make dumplings for you? Let Yuanxiao package jiaozi on 15th night. Long live the incense and offerings, and order every family in Kyoto to pack jiaozi and worship Vulcan together. Then tell the subjects to hang lights together on the fifteenth night and set off firecrackers and fireworks all over the city, as if the whole city were on fire, so that the jade emperor could be fooled. In addition, the people outside the city were informed that they would go to the city to watch the lights on the fifteenth night, and they would eliminate disasters and solve problems in the crowd. Liang Wudi was very happy after hearing this, so he ordered him to do it according to Dong Fangshuo's method.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Chang 'an City was decorated with colorful lights, crowded with tourists and very lively. The parents of the maid-in-waiting Yuanxiao also took their sister to the city to see the lights. When they saw the big palace lantern with the words "Yuanxiao" written on it, they shouted in surprise: "Yuanxiao! Lantern Festival! " When Yuanxiao heard the shouts, she was finally reunited with her relatives at home.

After such a busy night, Chang 'an was safe. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed and ordered that glutinous rice balls should be made for Vulcan every year on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the whole city was decorated with lanterns and set off fireworks. Because jiaozi cooked by Yuanxiao is the best, people call it Yuanxiao, and this day is called Lantern Festival.

Customs of Lantern Festival:

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, so it is celebrated all over the country. The customs in most areas are similar, but each area still has its own characteristics.

eat yuanxiao

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", contains sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion. Jiaozi, Shaanxi is not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, warm and round.

Look at the lights.

During the Yong Ping period of Han Dynasty (AD 58-75), when Ming Chengzu advocated Buddhism, it happened that Cai Cheng returned from India to seek Buddhism, saying that it was the fifteenth day of the first month of Mohato, India, and the monks gathered to pay tribute to the relics, which was an auspicious day to participate in Buddhism. In order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Hanming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in palaces and temples on the fifteenth night of the first month. Since then, the custom of putting lights on the Lantern Festival has spread from being held only in the court to the people. That is, on the fifteenth day of the first month, both the gentry and the people hang up lights, and the urban and rural areas are brightly lit all night.

The custom of setting off lanterns during the Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty. Chang 'an, the capital at that time, was already the largest city with a population of one million in the world, and its society was rich. Under the personal initiative of the emperor, the Lantern Festival became more and more luxurious. After the middle Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. In the prosperous period of the Tang Xuanzong Kaiyuan (685-762 AD), the lantern market in Chang 'an was very large, with 50,000 lanterns and all kinds of lanterns. The emperor ordered 20 giant lantern buildings with a height of 150 feet, resplendent and magnificent.

The Lantern Festival in Song Dynasty is superior to that in Tang Dynasty in scale and dreamy lighting, with more folk activities and stronger national characteristics. Since then, the Lantern Festival has continued to develop and the time of the Lantern Festival has become longer and longer. The Lantern Festival in Tang Dynasty is "the day before and after Shangyuan". In the Song Dynasty, two days were added after the 16th, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was extended from the 8th to 18th to ten days.

In the Qing Dynasty, Manchu entered the Central Plains, and the court no longer held lantern festivals, but the folk lantern festivals were still spectacular. The date was shortened to five days and continues to this day.

In Taiwan Province Province, lanterns have the meaning of light and elegance, and lighting them means lighting up the future. The homonym of Taiwan Province Lantern and En stands for having a boy. So in the past, women would deliberately wander under lanterns, hoping to "drill under lanterns to lay eggs" (that is, swim under lanterns to give birth to boys).

Walking sickness

Besides celebrating the Lantern Festival, there are also religious activities. That is to say, most of the participants in "taking all kinds of diseases", also known as "baking all kinds of diseases" and "spreading all kinds of diseases" are women. They walk together or against the wall, or cross the bridge through the suburbs, in order to drive away diseases and eliminate disasters.

As time goes by, there are more and more activities for the Lantern Festival. In many places, activities such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums were also added during the festival.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, some little-known folk activities have been lost. Here are two or three.

In ancient times, there were "seven sacrifices" at the sacrificial gate and the sacrificial households, which were two of them. The method of sacrifice is very simple. Put poplar branches above the door, put a pair of chopsticks in a bowl filled with bean porridge, or put wine and meat directly in front of the door.

Mouse chase

This activity is mainly aimed at sericulture families. Because mice often eat silkworms in large areas at night, it is said that they can stop eating silkworms by feeding them rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month. As a result, these people cooked a large pot of sticky porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, and some even covered it with a layer of meat. They put porridge in a bowl and put it on the ceiling, corner and mouth where mice haunt, cursing that mice will not die a natural death if they eat silkworm babies again.

Yingzigu

Zi Gu is a kind and poor girl in folklore. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Zi Gu died of poverty. People sympathize with her and miss her. In some places, it is convenient to have the custom of "welcoming the daughter-in-law on the fifteenth day of the first month". Every night, people tie a life-size portrait of purple aunt with straw and cloth heads. Women have stood beside the toilet, pigsty and kitchen where Zigu often works to meet her, holding her hand like sisters, telling her sweet words and comforting her with tears. This scene is very vivid and truly reflects the thoughts and feelings of the working people who are kind, honest and sympathetic to the weak.

Qixi Festival

Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival. In the feudal traditional society, Lantern Festival also provides unmarried men and women with opportunities to get to know each other. In traditional society, young girls are not allowed to go out freely, but they can go out to play together on holidays. Lantern Festival lanterns are just an opportunity to make friends, and unmarried men and women can also find their own partners by the way. During the Lantern Festival, it is also an opportunity for young men and women to meet their lovers.

In Taiwan Province Province, there is also a traditional custom that unmarried women who steal onions or vegetables at midnight will marry a good husband, commonly known as "stealing onions and marrying a good wife" and "stealing vegetables and marrying a good husband". I hope that a girl with a happy marriage will steal onions or vegetables in the garden at midnight snack, hoping to have a happy family in the future. There are also hundreds of performances in the Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty, with thousands of maids.

Ouyang Xiu (health inspector) said: Last year's Lantern Festival, the flower market was lit like a book; The moon rose to the willow tree, and he met me at dusk. Xin Qiji (jade case) wrote: Many people looked for it and suddenly looked back, and that person was in the dim light. It is a scene describing midnight snack, while the traditional opera Chen San and Wu Niang met at the Lantern Festival and fell in love at first sight. In the second episode of "Nightingale", Lechang official and Xu Deyan made love at the Lantern Festival, and in "Spring Lantern Enigma", they made love with ying niang at the Lantern Festival. So the Lantern Festival is also China's "Valentine's Day".

Legend of Lantern Festival II. There is a legend that people decorate lanterns and tie colored lanterns on the Lantern Festival. This has to start from the Han Dynasty. ...

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a favourite named Dong Fangshuo. One day, Dong Fangshuo had nothing to do and went to the back garden to enjoy the scenery. Walking, I saw a maid-in-waiting ready to throw herself into the well. Dong Fangshuo quickly stopped the maid-in-waiting and asked her why she jumped into the well and killed herself. The maid-in-waiting said, "My name is Yuanxiao. I have been a maid-in-waiting since I was a child, and I have never seen my parents and sister. Every Spring Festival, I feel even worse when I see others happy. That's why ... "Dong Fangshuo thought for a moment and said confidently," Don't be depressed. I promise that I will let you meet your parents and sister on 15 this month. " The next day, Dong Fangshuo dressed up as a fortune teller and told fortune on Chang 'an Avenue. Everyone painted "I will set myself on fire on the 16th day of the first month". Everyone is busy asking how to crack it. Dong Fangshuo said, "On the fifteenth day of the first month, Vulcan will send a goddess in red. She is the messenger who was ordered to burn Chang 'an. As long as we beg her, we may escape this robbery. But you must let the emperor know about it, or a disaster will befall us. " Say that finish and roared off. The ensemble was sent to the emperor, who was surprised. Dong Fangshuo was immediately called in to discuss the matter. Dong Fangshuo pretended to think for a moment and said, "By the 15th, the whole city will be ordered to set off fireworks and hang lanterns, so that people outside the city can enjoy the lanterns in the city. In this way, Chang 'an became lively, and Vulcan thought that Chang 'an was on fire. The emperor even boasted, "This plan is wonderful, this plan is wonderful." . "On the fifteenth Lantern Festival, my parents and sister came to Chang 'an and saw the lantern saying' Lantern Festival'. Sister Yuanxiao shouted, "Yuanxiao! Lantern Festival! " Hearing this, Yuanxiao was very happy to meet his parents and sister.

Since then, people have called the fifteenth day of the first month "Lantern Festival". And it is a custom to set off fireworks and firecrackers at this time of year.

Legend of Lantern Festival 3 Today is the 15th day of the first month, the traditional festival of China people-Lantern Festival, and our family is happy.

According to my mother, a long time ago, the weather was good, the crops were bumper, and the people were well-fed and lived in peace and contentment. Sudden disaster arrival, flooding in the city, drought in the fields outside the city, it turned out that the queen mother invited the jade emperor to dinner, and the jade emperor was as drunk as a fiddler. After the banquet, there was room to go back to the palace to do things, so Yu wrote it wrong. It should be five points of rain outside the city and three points of rain inside the city, but the Jade Emperor wrote it backwards. Knowing the reason, Qinglong sneaked into the Heavenly Palace, changed Colleen Chan, and slowly restored the world to its true colors. When the Jade Emperor woke up, he also found that he had written a mistake in Colleen Chan, and wanted to correct it, but he was afraid of etiquette saying that he was careless, so he had to correct it. Later, when the Jade Emperor found that his Colleen Chan had been changed, he was furious and sent the Prime Minister down to kill Qinglong. The prime minister did so. After being killed by the Prime Minister, Qinglong became a divine bird and cried outside the Jade Emperor's Hall. Feeling ashamed, the Jade Emperor wrote a book asking the Yellow Emperor to issue an order to the people to commemorate the Qinglong who saved them. Every Spring Festival, people beat gongs and drums, play with dragons and lions for several years and celebrate the Lantern Festival.

The custom of Lantern Festival is to eat jiaozi to make everyone happy, so my mother decided to cook jiaozi tonight. I said to my mother, "Leave jiaozi to me." Mother said, "Good! But will you? " "Of course I will, because I've seen you do it before." I said. Mother said, "Then I'll wait for your jiaozi." I said, "Well, don't worry, I won't let you down." I regard it as a very important task and am afraid to cook it, so my heart seems to be pounding with a rabbit in my pocket. I used to watch my mother cook jiaozi. I'll boil the water first, and then put jiaozi in carefully. I waited anxiously, waiting. Finally, jiaozi, who was fat for nothing, surfaced and watched them swell one by one. I shouted happily: jiaozi is out of the pot. I'm glad jiaozi didn't cook it. Everyone happily tasted my jiaozi, and my gourmet mother gave me a hundred points, praising me for growing up and being sensible. The first time I made dumplings, I got such a high evaluation. I was so excited and my heart was full of joy. I decided that I must practice more in the future, and it will be better than it is now.

How time flies! In a blink of an eye, it's already around seven o'clock in the evening. My family went outside to set off fireworks. I'll let go of the biggest cannon first. Wow, it's beautiful. Then, I put a "parachute", wow, colorful, really beautiful.

Finally, our whole family sat on the sofa and watched the Lantern Festival with relish.

Legend of Lantern Festival 4 Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a favorite named Dong Fangshuo, who was kind and funny. One winter, it snowed heavily for several days, and Dong Fangshuo went to the Imperial Garden to fold plum blossoms for Emperor Wu. But as soon as I entered the garden gate, I found a maid-in-waiting in tears ready to throw herself into the well. So Dong Fangshuo hurried forward to help and asked her why she committed suicide. Only then did I know that the maid-in-waiting was named Yuanxiao, and there were parents and a sister at home. She has never seen her family since she entered the palace. Every spring comes, I miss my family more than usual. I feel that I can't be filial in front of my parents. I might as well die. Dong Fangshuo expressed deep sympathy for her suffering and assured her that she would try her best to reunite with her family.

One day, Dong Fangshuo left the palace and set up a divination pavilion on Chang 'an Avenue. Many people are scrambling to find him for divination. I didn't expect everyone to want the signature of "We will burn to death on the 16th day of the first month". At that time, there was a panic in Chang 'an. People are looking for a solution to the disaster. At this time, Dong Fangshuo said, "On the 13th night of the first month, Vulcan will send a goddess in red to visit the earth. She is the messenger who ordered the burning of Chang 'an. I'll give you the copied poem and let the Emperor of Heaven do something. " Say that finish, then dropped a red pillar and roared off. So people picked up the red post and quickly sent it to the palace to report to the emperor.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took it and read: "Chang 'an is robbing, and the imperial palace is being burned. It has been burning for fifteen days, and the midnight snack is red." He was so scared that he hurriedly invited resourceful Dong Fangshuo. At this moment, Dong Fangshuo thought for a moment and said, "I heard that Vulcan likes to eat dumplings. Don't Yuanxiao in the palace often make dumplings for you? Let Yuanxiao package jiaozi on 15th night. Emperor Wu burned incense and offered sacrifices, and ordered every family in Kyoto to pack jiaozi and worship Vulcan together. Then ask the subjects to hang lights, light firecrackers and set off fireworks together on the fifteenth night. It seems that there are fires all over the city, so as to fool the Jade Emperor. In addition, the people outside the city were informed that they would go to the city to watch the lights on the fifteenth night, and they would eliminate disasters and solve problems in the crowd. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very happy and ordered him to do it according to Dong Fangshuo's method.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Chang 'an City was decorated with colorful lights, bustling with tourists and extraordinary excitement. The parents of the maid-in-waiting Yuanxiao also took their sister to the city to see the lights. When they saw the big palace lantern with the words "Yuanxiao" written on it, they shouted in surprise: "Yuanxiao! Lantern Festival! " When Yuanxiao heard the shouts, she was finally reunited with her relatives at home.

After such a lively night, Chang 'an is really safe. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed and ordered to make dumplings for Vulcan on the fifteenth day of the first month of each year. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the whole city was decorated with lanterns and set off fireworks. It is precisely because the jiaozi cooked by Yuanxiao is the best that people call it Yuanxiao, and this day is called Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival Legend 5 Lantern Festival, also known as "Shangyuan Festival". Shangyuan means the first full moon night of the New Year. The origin of Shangyuan Festival is recorded as years old in Miscellaneous Notes, which is a Taoist stereotype. Taoism once called the 15th day of the first month the Shangyuan Festival, the 15th day of July the Zhongyuan Festival and the 15th day of October the Xiayuan Festival, which were collectively called the "Sanyuan Festival". The gods worshipped by Wudou Midao, an important school of Taoism in the late Han Dynasty, were celestial officials, local officials and water officials. They said that God bless the people, the local officials forgive sins, and the water officials relieve Eritrea. They used three yuan to match the three officials, saying that Shangyuan Tianguan was born on the fifteenth day of the first month, Zhongyuan was born on the fifteenth day of July, and Xiayuan Shuiguan was born on the fifteenth day of October. In this way, the fifteenth day of the first month is called Shangyuan Festival.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu said in a dream: "The fifteenth day of the first month is the day when God bless the people." It is said that God bless the people and local officials make atonement, but the real motivation of the Lantern Festival custom is that it is at a new time point, and people make full use of this special time stage to express their wishes for life.

Legend of Lantern Festival 6 After the death of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Lv Hou's son Liu Ying became Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty. It is said that Hui Di was born weak and indecisive, and power gradually fell into the hands of Lv Hou. After the death of Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty, he monopolized the state affairs and turned Liu's world into Lu's. Senior officials in the DPRK and Liu Zongshi were deeply indignant at this, but they were afraid of cruelty and dared not tell anyone.

After Lv Hou's death, Zhu Lu has been in a state of anxiety, afraid of being hurt and excluded. So, they secretly assembled in the home of the generals in the world and plotted to make trouble in order to completely seize Liu's country.

This incident reached the ears of Liu Nang, the king of the Liu clan. In order to protect Liu Jiangshan, Liu Nang decided to attack Zhu Lu, and got in touch with the founding fathers Zhou Bo and Chen Ping, plotting to raise Lv Lu. The "Zhu-Lu Rebellion" was finally completely put down.

After the rebellion, the ministers made Liu Heng, the second son of Liu Bang, the Chinese Emperor. Impressed by the hard-won peace and prosperity, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty designated the 15th day of the first month of the first month to quell the "Rebellion among the Lus" as a day of having fun with the people, and every household in the capital celebrated with lanterns and colorful decorations. In this regard, the fifteenth day of the first month has become a folk festival celebrated all over the world-the Lantern Festival.