Name of Lantern Festival activities

The names of Lantern Festival activities are: Lantern Festival Girl, Shadow Play Acacia, Second Round, Tanabata Burning, Double Happiness.

1, Lantern Festival girl

Dong Fangshuo, the favorite of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, is funny and kind. One winter, I went to the imperial garden to enjoy plums, and I met a maid-in-waiting who wanted to jump into a well and commit suicide. After the rescue, Shuo asked why. It turned out that the maid-in-waiting named Yuanxiao missed her relatives for a long time after entering the palace, so she thought of suicide. Dong Fangshuo expressed sympathy and promised to help.

Dong Fangshuo set up a stall for divination, and everyone invited someone to do it. As a result, "the 16th day of the first month burned us", which caused great panic in Chang 'an. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked Dong Fangshuo for advice, saying, "Chang 'an was robbed, and the palace was set on fire for 15 days, and the midnight snack was flaming red. "

Explanation: On the fifteenth night of the first month, every family hangs lanterns to eat Yuanxiao, and people outside the city go to the city to see lanterns, just like the fire in the city hides from the Jade Emperor. That night, Yuanxiao's parents went to the city to see the lights. With the help of Dong Fangshuo, the family was finally reunited.

2, shadow play acacia

According to legend, Li Furen, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, missed her very much after her death, so a maid-in-waiting put on her clothes and danced in the moonlight. The emperor saw the shadow of the maid-in-waiting and relieved his thoughts.

Later generations wrote a poem: "Zhang Deng plays a new song, Gu Ying lingers and is realistic, walks steadily around the lotus, and sees Li Furen live before the account." It is the allusion of Emperor Wu's longing for his beloved princess and the original source of shadow play.

3. The second time

When Sui Jun destroyed Chen Nan, Princess Changle of Chen Nan and her husband Xu Deyan broke a bronze mirror, each holding half, as a proof of meeting each other later. And agreed to sell mirrors in the city on the fifteenth day of the first month to find out about each other.

After the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen Nan, Princess Changle became the concubine of Yang Sufu. In the second year of Lantern Festival, Xu Deyan really saw an old man selling half a bronze mirror in the market, which was expensive and nobody cared. Xu Deyan wrote a poem on the broken mirror: "The mirror goes with people, and the mirror returns to people. There is no shadow in the moon, and the moon is bright. " Su Yang learned that Changle and his wife were finally reunited with a beautiful adult.

4. Light seven lights

In the Song Dynasty, there was a magistrate named Cai in Fuzhou, who wanted to whitewash the peace in the face of thousands of miles of famine. He ordered to rule all the people, and every household must light seven lights on the night of the Lantern Festival.

A poor man named Zhan made a headlight more than ten feet high and wrote a poem: "A rich man has a lamp, but Taicang is a drop in the bucket;" A poor family has a lamp, and a father and son cry. Hearing this, the magistrate had to take back his words. "。

5, double happiness

When Wang Anshi was 20 years old, he went to Beijing to take the exam. On the Lantern Festival, he passed by a place where a large family hung lanterns to ask for relatives. Lian Yue said: "Run with a lantern, the lantern will move, and stop when it goes out." Wang Anshi couldn't answer, but he kept it in mind. When I arrived in Beijing, who knew that the examiner actually thought: "Flying Tiger Flag, Flying Tiger Flag, Tiger Flag Hidden."

When Wang Anshi started writing, he answered it with a bride-in-law, and won the Jinshi. When I got home, I found that no one could pick up the couplets. Wang Anshi answered questions with couplets and got a beautiful daughter-in-law. This is a double happiness.

The origin of Lantern Festival

Now it is generally believed that it originated in the Han Dynasty. The emperors of the Han Dynasty believed in Buddhism, and Buddhism had the habit of lighting lamps on the fifteenth day of the first month to watch the Buddhist relics pray. In order to promote Buddhism in other places, he ordered all the people in the court to light up on this day.

This gradually formed the prototype of the Lantern Festival. Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also stipulated the day of offering sacrifices to Taiyi. With the blessing of offering sacrifices to the gods, people began to pay attention to the Lantern Festival.

As a festival, the Lantern Festival has grown with the development of history. Formed in the Han Dynasty, in the Tang Dynasty, lanterns were very popular in the capital and towns because of their strong national strength, and the silver flowers of the fire tree in the city were the favorite flowers of the Tang Dynasty. As a Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival has been greatly developed. The Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty has developed into the most lively carnival, with countless colorful lights and fireworks like stars and rain.

As a continuation of the New Year, Lantern Festival is the last climax of the Spring Festival celebrations. Watching lanterns, eating Yuanxiao, setting off fireworks and dancing lions. Celebrating the Spring Festival is also a good year ahead of schedule.