Dong Fangshuo, the favorite of Emperor Wu of the 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 throw herself into a well. After the rescue, Shuo asked why. It turned out that the maid-in-waiting was named Yuanxiao, and she missed her relatives for a long time after entering the palace, so she thought of suicide. Dong Fangshuo sympathized and promised to help.
Dong Fangshuo set up a stall for divination, and everyone asked for divination, and the result was "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 is robbing, and the fire burns the imperial palace, and the fire lasts for fifteen days, and the flame is red and midnight snack." Explain: On the fifteenth night of the first month, every family hangs lanterns to eat Yuanxiao, and people outside the city go to town to watch lanterns, which is like a fire in the city to hide from the Jade Emperor. That night, Yuanxiao's parents went to the city to watch the lights. With the help of Dong Fangshuo, the family was finally reunited.
2. second time around
When the army of Sui Dynasty destroyed Nan Chen, Princess Chang Le of Nan Chen 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 of the first month to find out the other party's news. After the Sui Dynasty destroyed Nan Chen, Princess Changle became a concubine in Yang Sufu. In the Lantern Festival the following year, 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 of the moon, and the moon is bright. " Yang Su learned that with the beauty of adults, Changle and his wife were finally reunited.
3. Burn seven lamps
In the Song Dynasty, there was a prefect named Cai Junmo in Fuzhou, who wanted to whitewash the peace in the face of thousands of miles of hunger. He ordered that all the people be ruled, and every family must burn seven lights on the night of the Lantern Festival. A poor man called Exhibition made a headlight more than ten feet high and wrote a poem: "A rich man has a lamp, but a millet in Taicang;": The poor family has a lamp, and the father and son are crying. " When the news reached the ears of the prefect, he had to eat his words.
4. Double happiness
When Wang Anshi was twenty years old, he went to Beijing to take the exam. He passed by a place during the Lantern Festival, and a large family hung lanterns to ask questions to attract relatives. Lian Yue said, "Run with the lantern, the lantern will move, and the lantern will stop when it goes out." Wang Anshi can't answer, but he keeps it in mind. After arriving in Beijing, who knows that the examiner's association is actually: "Flying Tiger Flag, Flying Tiger Flag, Tiger Flag Hiding." When Wang Anshi started to write, he answered by recruiting relatives and won the Jinshi. When I returned home, I found that there was still no one who could answer the couplet. Wang Anshi answered the questions with the couplet, and actually got a beautiful daughter-in-law. It was a double happiness.
5. Decorate with lanterns.
Since the custom of decorating lanterns on Lantern Festival was formed, it has been a great event to watch lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month in all dynasties. It is recorded in "Dream of Tokyo" that during the Lantern Festival, on the Imperial Street in Kaifeng, 10,000 lanterns are built into a lantern mountain, and the lanterns are fireworks, which are resplendent and splendid. Girls in Kyoto are singing and dancing, and people are watching. "Visitors gather under the two colonnades of the Imperial Street, with marvelous skills, singing and dancing, tangency of scales, and noisy music for more than ten miles." In the streets, tea houses and wine shops, lights and candles are burning together, gongs and drums are ringing, firecrackers are ringing, and hundreds of miles of lights are on.
6. Lovers meet
The Lantern Festival Ouyang Xiu's "Life Checker" says: "At the Lantern Festival last year, the flower market lights were like day; On the moon, the willow shoots, and people are about after dusk. " Xin Qiji (Jade Case) wrote: "Many people looked for it for thousands of Baidu, but suddenly looking back, the man was in the dim light."