Lantern Festival handwritten newspaper 1
Lantern Festival Manuscript 2
Lantern Festival Manuscript 3
The Origin of Lantern Festival (1)
Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, which was held in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Lantern Festival viewing began in the period of Emperor Hanming in the East. Ming Di advocated Buddhism, and heard that on the 15th day of the first month of the first month, monks observed Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship Buddha, so they ordered to light lamps in palaces and temples to worship Buddha that night, so that all the cremation and ordinary people hung 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.
When Emperor Wen was in the Han Dynasty, he had ordered the 15th day of the first month to be designated as the Lantern Festival. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month. Taiyi: the God who rules everything in the universe. When Sima Qian founded the "taichu calendar", he had identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.
Another theory is that the custom of burning lanterns in Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "three-yuan theory"; The 15th day of the first month is Shangyuan Festival, the 15th day of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the 15th day of October is Xiayuan Festival. The officials in charge of the upper, middle and lower three elements are heaven, earth and man respectively, and the heaven official is happy, so the lantern festival should be lit.
The festivals and customs activities of the Lantern Festival have been extended and expanded with the development of history, and have never stopped. As far as the length of the festival is concerned, it was only one day in the Han Dynasty, three days in the Tang Dynasty, and five days in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the lights were lit from the eighth day of the eighth month until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month, for ten days. Connecting with the Spring Festival, the day is the city, which is very lively, and the lights are lit at night, which is spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. By the Qing Dynasty, there were more "hundred plays" such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, roller boating, walking on stilts and dancing yangko, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.
Customs of Lantern Festival (2)
1, eat Yuanxiao
2. Flower viewing lamp
3. solve riddles on the lanterns
4, walking away from all diseases
5. Ying Zigu
6, lion dance
7. Walking on stilts
8. Rat by rat
Ancient Poems of Lantern Festival (3)
1, Last Night
Cui ye
Don't rush the jade to leak the copper pot, and the iron lock will be opened all night;
Who can sit around on the moon and smell the lights?
2. "Watching Lights at Fifteen Nights"
(Tang) Lu Zhaolin
An aromatic banquet was held in Jinli, and Lan Hongyan was in her early years.
The color is far away, and the light is far away.
After the Chinese suspect that the stars are falling, the building is like a moon hanging.
Don't have a thousand smiles, come and show the front of the nine branches.
3. Night Lights on the fifteenth day of the first month
(Tang) Zhang Hu
Thousands of doors are unlocked, and the lights are bright. In the middle of the first month, it moved to Beijing.
Three hundred wives danced in sleeves, and when they entered the sky, they sang words.