Lantern Festival originated from a trick of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty? Yuanxiao was originally the name of the bridesmaid.

Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan, Yuanxi and Yuanye. Lantern Festival has the custom of burning lanterns and watching lanterns, so it is also called? Lantern Festival? . It originated in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and later developed into the custom of watching the sun and lights at night, especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Lantern Festival began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. It is said that on the fifteenth day of the first month, the monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship Buddha, so they ordered to light lamps to worship Buddha in palaces and temples that night, so that all cremated people and ordinary people could hang lamps. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country. There are many interesting legends about the origin of the Lantern Festival.

There are many entertainment programs, such as dragon dance, lion dance, roller boating, walking on stilts, playing riddles and Yangko, but eating Yuanxiao is the highlight of the Lantern Festival, which is related to Dong Fangshuo, the favorite of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In order to reunite maids named Yuanxiao with their families, Dong Fangshuo specially set up a divination pavilion on Chang 'an Avenue. What does everyone want? On the sixteenth day of the first month, it burned us? The signature of. At that time, there was a panic in Chang 'an. 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 a look and it read:? Chang' an is robbing, burning the emperor's palace, burning for fifteen days, and having a midnight snack? , frightened in the heart, hurriedly come to Dong Fangshuo. Dong Fangshuo conveniently said:? It is said that Vulcan loves jiaozi best. Don't Yuanxiao in the palace often give you jiaozi? 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.

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 read this letter. Lantern Festival? When the big palace lantern was written, he shouted in surprise: Yuanxiao! Yuanxiao! ? 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, this day is called Lantern Festival.

China used to be a country of poetry, and there were countless poems about the Lantern Festival, but perhaps the most famous one was Ouyang Xiu's The Coroner of Life: On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the flower market was brightly lit. The moon rose to the willow tree, and he met me at dusk. On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of this year, the moonlight and lights are still the same as last year. See last year, tears Man Chun shirt sleeve. ? This poem, as simple as the vernacular, implies a touch of sadness, and people often compare it with Cui Hu's "Chengtou is a South Village": last spring, in this door, the girl's face matched the peach blossom. I don't know where to go. Peach blossoms in the spring breeze still smile? In the same breath, for this China? Valentine's day? Injected a little beautiful sadness.

As the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Hu? Thousands of doors are locked and brightly lit. In the middle of January, it moved to Beijing. Three hundred wives dance with sleeves and write in the sky. ? Has a magnificent sense of beauty, Jiang Baishi? The Lantern Festival competes to see the lotus boat, and the BMW car picks up the cymbals. On a stormy night, people are scattered, and the lonely lamp still calls for selling glutinous rice balls. ? It shows a small scene of singing and setting off fireworks in the yard. Poetry is full of a sense of picture and rich scenes of street life, quiet and moving, and also reflects the hardships of civilian life. Beauty always comes at a price, and behind the warmth is often the hardship of life. When we went out to eat a bowl of wonton in the food stall late at night, what we felt was only such a crossing picture. People's material life can change with the times, and what remains unchanged is this daily life scene.

Lantern Festival is always associated with entertainment, which is the instinct of people to pursue happiness. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was recorded in Meng Yuan's Dream of Tokyo: On the Lantern Festival, on the Imperial Street in Kaifeng, 10,000 lanterns were built into a lantern mountain, and lanterns were fireworks, resplendent and magnificent. The girls in Kyoto are singing and dancing, and people are watching. Tourists gather under the two corridors of Yujie Street. Here, they are full of stunts, singing and dancing, and the music is noisy for more than ten miles. Streets and alleys, teahouses and restaurants, lights and candles are burning together, gongs and drums are loud, firecrackers are ringing, and hundreds of miles of lights are on. And then what? Solve the riddle on the lantern? Started in the Southern Song Dynasty. According to the thoroughness of Old Wulin? Deng Pinlu: Writing poems with silk lanterns, sometimes teasing, drawing characters, hiding argot and old Beijing slang, teasing pedestrians. On the Lantern Festival, the imperial city stays up all night, and the people enjoy the Lantern Festival in spring. Poems and riddles are written on lanterns, reflected on candles and listed on the road, so they are called? Lantern riddle? .

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Dai also recorded such a picture in Shaoxing Lantern Scene:? Shaoxing's light scenery is praised by the world, such as bamboo, lamps and candles. Cheap, so every family can do it; Cheap, so everyone is ashamed of not lighting it? Women in the city walk at a high rate and look at the lights in the downtown area; Otherwise, everyone will sit in front of the door, eating melon seeds and candied beans, watching ladies and gentlemen, and then leave at midnight. ?

This is an extremely touching secular picture, lively, approachable, impressive and fruitful. Unfortunately, with the disappearance of leisure life in the farming era, modern people can no longer see the beauty of this vivid life, which is quite a pity.