Who knows the origin and legend of Lantern Festival?

Origin of Lantern Festival: The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first month was called the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of Spring Festival, people celebrate this festival and the continuation of the Spring Festival.

Yuanxiao originally meant "the night of Shangyuan Festival", because the main activities of Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month were to eat glutinous rice balls and enjoy the moon at night, and later the name of this festival evolved into "Lantern Festival". On the night of Lantern Festival, the streets are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and people enjoy lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Lantern Festival, which pushes the celebration activities that began on New Year's Eve to another climax and becomes a custom handed down from generation to generation.

Yuanxiao was only called the fifteenth day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the full moon when the early festivals were formed, and it was called Yuanxiao or Yuanxiao after Sui. Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, but it was only in the late Tang Dynasty that it was occasionally called Yuanxiao. But since the Song Dynasty, it has also been called Dengxi. In the Qing dynasty, it was also called the Lantern Festival. In foreign countries, Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival.

Legend of Lantern Festival:

1, in memory of Pinglu.

2. Torch Festival and Lantern Festival began in ancient times when people held torches in rural fields to drive away insects and beasts, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a bumper harvest. .

3, "Sanyuanshuo", Shangyuan, contains the meaning of the first full moon night in 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". .

4. Ming Di worships Buddha, mainly in "Three Hundred Topics of Social Customs" edited by Mr. Hu Shensheng: "In Buddhist teachings, fire is compared to the mighty god of Buddha, and the Infinite Life Sutra has the saying that' infinite flame shines infinitely'. In Buddhist teachings, the lamp has always been one of the offerings before the Buddha.

Extended data:

The custom of Lantern Festival is different in different places. In the Han nationality, there are mainly the following customs: eating Yuanxiao, playing lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, playing with dragon lanterns, walking on stilts, dancing lions, boating, offering sacrifices to families, welcoming children and so on.

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