The fifteenth day of the first lunar month should have been a day of family reunion and joy. However, facts have proved that where there are map cannons, there will be war.

The tough Yuanxiao Lord VS the soft and waxy Tangyuan girl, who can represent the Lantern Festival?

According to Mr. Tadpole’s observation

The great melee of this century is mainly divided into the following groups?

1/ People who don’t know the truth and eat melons

"Aren't Yuanxiao and glutinous rice balls the same thing? ! 』

2/ Ordinary foodie

『No matter what it is, as long as it tastes good...』

3/ Senior foodie

『 I also know that Yuanxiao is better when fried, and Tangyuan is better when boiled. 』

4/ Those with thin mud

『Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing. Not knowing is not guilty, long live understanding! 』

5/Let me use the power of philosophy to end this war!

『Lantern Festival is Lantern Festival! Glutinous rice balls are glutinous rice balls! 』

(What a nonsense)

While Mr. Tadpole was watching the battle invisibly, an unknown voice in a corner caught my attention?

『What if the glutinous rice balls are real? If you can speak for the Lantern Festival, why isn’t the fifteenth day of the first lunar month called the Tangyuan Festival? 』

In this day where you are so happy that you don’t even want to use your brain, Mr. Tadpole doesn’t want to quote scriptures and evidence to prove who is the official spokesperson of the Lantern Festival.

(Actually, I am anxious. Go out and get high)

But we can still answer this witty question seriously.

The first month is "Yuan Yue", and the ancients called the night "Xiao" (so snacks eaten in the middle of the night are called "late night snacks"), and the 15th is the first month of the year. It is a round night, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the "Lantern Festival".

It turns out that it has nothing to do with what you eat. . .

But based on this we can find that the highlight of the Lantern Festival is at night!

According to legend, in order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty ordered that on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, lanterns should be lit in palaces and temples to represent the Buddha.

The custom of lighting lanterns on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month gradually spread in China with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture.

"My credit is here, if you don't believe it, read on"

The custom of putting out lanterns during the Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty, and became popular among all people after the mid-Tang Dynasty. A carnival of sex. During the prosperous period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the lantern market in Chang'an City was very large, with a wide variety of lanterns. The emperor ordered craftsmen to build a giant lantern tower with 20 rooms and a height of 150 feet. The golden light was brilliant and extremely spectacular.

"Without my hard work in spreading Buddhism, you would not know what it means to appreciate lanterns!" 』

The Lantern Festival has continued to develop in the past dynasties, and the Lantern Festival has become longer and longer. The Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty lasted "one day before and after the Yuan Dynasty". In the Song Dynasty, two days were added after the 16th day of the lunar month. In the Ming Dynasty, it was extended to ten days from the eighth to the eighteenth day of the lunar month.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the country, the palace no longer held lantern festivals, but the custom of holding lantern festivals among the people became a custom that continues to this day.

During the Lantern Festival, it is most loving for the whole family to enjoy the lanterns together, because it falls on the 15th day of the lunar calendar, which happens to be the time of the full moon, which means family reunion. But I believe you must have heard this saying?

From the earth, when the moon and the sun are on both sides of the earth, and the three are in a straight line, the moon is the roundest, which our country has called this since ancient times. For "hope".

The "look" in the picture is a noun rather than a verb

But the moon's orbit around the earth is about 29.53 days, and its orbit is an ellipse rather than a perfect circle, so the full moon is in The fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth or even seventeenth days of each month in the lunar calendar are likely to occur, with the fifteenth or sixteenth being more likely.

In fact, whether the moon is fifteen or sixteen, the difference is so small that the naked eye cannot tell.

But this gives the workers (ke) (dou) and dogs (jun) who are too busy with work today a good reason to make an appointment tomorrow, the moon will be even more beautiful!

Since we won’t be able to admire the moon until tomorrow, let’s light up the lanterns today~

(This picture? google.com.sg)