Beautiful allegorical painting of Lantern Festival

Beautiful allegorical painting of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. It falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, that is, the first full moon night of the year, that is, after the Spring Festival. Do you know what Lantern Festival is?

Beautiful implication of Lantern Festival Picture 1 Beautiful implication of Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in the New Year. At this time, the Yuan Dynasty began to return to the earth in spring. At the same time, China people always pay attention to new things. According to the Taoist saying of "Sanyuan", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called Shangyuan Festival. Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. For example, the New Record of Erjing in the Tang Dynasty said: "On the fifteenth night of the first month, Jin Wu is forbidden, and the lights are watched the day before and after, and the lights are like day."

At the same time, the Lantern Festival also broke through the curfew in Chang 'an, greatly expanding the entertainment space and time of the people. Accordingly, women, a group bound by ethics, are temporarily free and can enjoy the Lantern Festival carnival. In the Tang Dynasty, not only the maids who usually lock the palace, but also the young girls and young women in the suburbs of Chang 'an could sing songs for three days and three nights under the lantern wheel, which was really "beyond joy".

With the development of civil society in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this carnival and festive custom not only flourished day by day, but also added new customs such as lion dancing, making dragon lanterns and riddles. It is recorded in the novel "Flowers in the Mirror" that Duojiugong guessed a riddle in the country of Zijia. The riddle was written in "Mencius" and the answer was "Everyone is safe in the world". It can be seen that the Lantern Festival also means praying for the peace of the country and the people.

Speaking of blessing, it is also an important cultural theme of the Lantern Festival. In northern Jiangsu in the Qing Dynasty, Lantern Festival was considered to light fields and pray for a bumper harvest. As a nursery rhyme says, "lanterns are bright and torches are red. On the fifteenth day of the first month, hemp insects are fried, and all the fields are fried, leaving no traces of pests." Shaanxi also has the custom of hanging lanterns to "shine on black corners", which means to illuminate all dark corners of the house to show exorcism and happiness. In addition, in the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong also had the custom of women praying for their children during the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival. There is a lover on New Year's Eve or under the first month, otherwise everything will be fine. The former has the romantic description of "Thousands of trees bloom in the east wind night" in Xin Qiji's Jade Case: Yuan, and "the crowd looked for him for thousands of Baidu, and suddenly looked back, and the man was under the dim light". The latter has a warm story about Prince Chen's scheerer Xu Deyan and his wife Princess Lechang who cheated on each other through troubled times and finally ended up in a second reincarnation. All these have injected a warm cultural atmosphere into the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is one of the most important folk festivals in China. Its rich cultural connotation and spiritual implication have inspired and warmed us for thousands of years. It is an important part of China's traditional culture and has become the spiritual home of Chinese children. We must cherish and inherit it.

Beautiful moral picture of Lantern Festival 2 1, eating "Yuanxiao" on Lantern Festival.

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is a long-standing custom in China. Yuanxiao is called "Tangyuan". Its ingredients and taste are different, but the meaning of eating Yuanxiao is the same. Represents reunion and beauty, and the days are getting more and more prosperous. As the saying goes, harmony is more precious. Family harmony and family reunion are important factors of a complete family. Therefore, we must eat "Yuanxiao" with our families during the Lantern Festival.

2, Lantern Festival "send lanterns"

"Sending lanterns" is short for "sending lanterns", and its essential meaning is sending lanterns to children. That is, before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family sends lanterns to the newly-married daughter's family, or ordinary relatives and friends send them to the newly-married infertile family. In order to increase good luck, because "lamp" is homophonic with "Ding". Expressing the hope that her daughter will be lucky after marriage and have a son as soon as possible; If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the big palace lantern, she should also send one or two small lanterns to wish her a safe pregnancy.

3. Play with the Dragon Lantern Festival

The dragon is the totem of China, and the Chinese nation advocates the dragon and regards it as a symbol of good luck. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the festive atmosphere of singing and dancing spread in many places.

4, the Lantern Festival lion dance

Lion dance, also known as "lion dance", "lion dance lantern" and "lion dance", is often performed in festivals and festive activities. Lions are regarded as auspicious animals in China, symbolizing good luck and good luck. Therefore, in the lion dance activities, people are entrusted with the good wishes of eliminating disasters and seeking good luck.

5. Solve riddles on lanterns during Lantern Festival.

Every Lantern Festival, playing riddles is everywhere. I hope this year is festive and safe. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of communication. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, various acrobatic skills began to appear in the lantern market. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, besides riddles and hundreds of operas, there were also opera performances.

6. Walking on stilts during Lantern Festival

Stilts clubs are generally organized by the masses spontaneously in series. On the 11th and 12th day of the first month, people began to take to the streets, which means to tell people that many folk flowers will be hung up this year. On the fifteenth day of the first month, I officially went to the streets until the end of the 18th National Congress.

7, the Lantern Festival sacrificial households, sacrificial households

There were "seven sacrifices" in ancient times, which were two of them. The method of sacrifice is to insert poplar branches above the door, insert a pair of chopsticks in a bowl filled with bean porridge, or put wine and meat directly in front of the door.

8, the Lantern Festival walks all diseases

"Walk through all the diseases" is also called swimming through all the diseases, dispelling all the diseases, baking all the diseases, crossing the bridge and so on. It is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. On the Lantern Festival night, women meet and go out together. When they see the bridge, they will cross it, thinking that this can cure diseases and prolong life.

9. Eiko Valley

Zigu is also called Gucci, and in the north she is called toilet aunt and pit aunt. The ancient folk custom is to offer sacrifices to Ce Shen Zigu on the 15th day of the first month, and to offer sacrifices to silkworm and mulberry, which shows many things. On the night of welcoming the daughter-in-law, people tie the portrait of the daughter-in-law with straw and cloth, and greet her in the toilet with pigsty at night. It truly reflects the thoughts and feelings of kind, loyal and sympathetic working people.

Figure 3 Lantern Festival, like Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is a traditional festival in China. In fact, its cultural connotation and social value far exceed other festivals, and it has extraordinary significance.

The traditional festivals and customs in China have adapted to the comprehensive needs of China people in material, spiritual, ethical and aesthetic aspects. In terms of material life, traditional festivals in China have many unique foods in different festivals. On the Lantern Festival, the whole family eats glutinous rice balls together. "Tangyuan" sounds similar to "reunion", symbolizing reunion and harmony.

Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival among the traditional festivals in China. In the feudal traditional society, Lantern Festival provides unmarried men and women with opportunities to get to know each other. Young girls in traditional society are not allowed to go out for free activities, 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 the time for young men and women to meet their lovers. Therefore, Lantern Festival can be said to be the authentic Valentine's Day in China.