Lantern Festival story

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a traditional festival after the Spring Festival-Lantern Festival. This festival is of great significance to China people. Generally speaking, after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the year is really over, so people warmly celebrate and hope that the new year will be a good year. There are many stories about the Lantern Festival. Let's have a look!

? Dong Fangshuo and the maid-in-waiting story?

According to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a favourite named Dong Fangshuo, who was kind and funny. One winter it snowed for several days. Dong Fangshuo went to the Imperial Garden to fold plum blossoms for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and 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, inform the people outside the city to go into the city for 15 nights to watch the lights 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.

Since then, people have had the custom of eating Yuanxiao and enjoying lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month, which is the later Lantern Festival.

? Love story of Lantern Festival?

During the Song Huizong period, during the annual Lantern Festival, Tokyo, the capital, was full of people and was very lively. Son Zhang Sheng went to Gan Ming Temple to see lanterns. As a result, he found a red handkerchief tied with a sachet in the temple. Zhang Sheng opened the handkerchief and looked at it carefully, but he saw a song written on it: "The bag smells good, and the cockroach's blood is red." Diligence keeps a light heart, while slavery keeps talents in the sleeve. "What is even more amazing is that there is a small line at the bottom of the courtship poem:" People who love each other will find this handkerchief, so don't forget it. Please wait for a while at the back door of the photo basket on the fifteenth night of the first month of next year. There is a lantern in front of the car. "

Zhang Sheng is a caring person. On the night of the Lantern Festival the following year, he made an appointment. As a result, I really saw a lantern car with mandarin ducks hanging on it.

When Zhang Sheng stepped forward, a beautiful woman suddenly appeared outside the window, and a charming voice came: "I want to meet the media I met last year."

When Zhang Sheng heard this, he was pleasantly surprised. He quickly took out a fragrant handkerchief as a token. The beauty held out her jade hand and took it. After reading it, she smiled in a low voice and said, "There are many people in Beijing, but you won. Isn't it a godsend for my marriage? " So I opened the window and let Zhang Sheng get into the carriage. The two left hand in hand and tied the knot.