The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in a year, and it is also the traditional Lantern Festival in China. I have carefully prepared essays for you to celebrate the Lantern Festival, hoping to help you. Chapter 1: Lantern Festival

In my hometown, there is a habit of not counting the New Year until the fifteenth day of the first month, and the Lantern Festival undoubtedly pushes the festive atmosphere from New Year's Eve to a climax. On the night of spring returns, people celebrate it and celebrate the continuation of the Spring Festival. According to the data, the Lantern Festival appeared in the Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 2, years in China. In the Tang Dynasty, lantern viewing flourished. Lu Zhaolin, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote in "Watching Lights at Fifteen Nights": "When the stars fall in the Han Dynasty, it seems like a moon hanging on the floor." Wrote the bustling scene of enjoying lanterns at midnight snack. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Lantern Festival, together with Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, was called the three traditional folk festivals in China. "Yuan" means the full moon, and "Xiao" means night, so Yuanxiao means the night of the first full moon in a year. On the Lantern Festival, people eat Yuanxiao (glutinous rice balls) to celebrate the festival, symbolizing family reunion. In addition, there are folk entertainment activities such as hanging lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, welcoming Zigu, walking on stilts, lion dancing, dragon dancing, etc. The Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival or Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is a traditional custom of our people. Throughout the ages, there are not only a large number of popular Lantern Festival poems, but also numerous interesting Lantern Festival couplets. In the Northern Song Dynasty, when a man named Jia Sidao was guarding Huaiyin (present-day Yangzhou), one year, lanterns were put on the Lantern Festival, and some of the guests picked poems from the Tang Dynasty as lanterns, saying, "It's a moonlit night in three minutes, a small red building in Yangzhou." It is said that this couplet is the earliest lantern couplet in China. Since then, people all over the world have followed suit. Hanging wall lamp couplets and door lamp couplets on the gates or conspicuous columns not only adds festive interest to the Lantern Festival, but also increases the appreciation content for people who enjoy the lanterns.

Zhang Ying and Zhang Tingyu, from Tongcheng, Anhui Province in the Qing Dynasty, who were called "the bachelor of father and son, the second prime minister", were both good at poetry. One year on the Lantern Festival, Zhang Fu decorated lanterns and set off firecrackers as usual. The old prime minister sent out a joint test, "The high fever red candle reflects the sky, bright, and the light is all over the ground." When Xiao Tingyu was thinking, she heard a firework sound outside the door, and suddenly realized that she said, "The fireworks at a low point shook the earth, and the sound was loud, and her breath went up into the sky." The antithesis is neat and seamless, which is a wonderful right.

Perhaps the most talked about story is the story of Wang Anshi's wonderful alliance in the Northern Song Dynasty. When Wang Anshi was 2 years old, he went to Beijing to catch the exam. He passed by a place during the Lantern Festival. While walking, he enjoyed the lanterns. He saw a large family hanging a lantern, and a couplet was hung under the lamp to solicit relatives. Lian Yue said, "Run with the lantern, the lantern will move, and the lantern will stop." When Wang Anshi saw it, he couldn't answer it for a moment, so he memorized it in his heart. When I arrived in Beijing, the examiner showed the flying tiger flag fluttering with the wind to "the flying tiger flag, the flag flying tiger, and the flag rolling tiger hiding." Wang Anshi responded by recruiting relatives and was taken as a Jinshi. When I passed by that family when I returned home, I heard that there was still no one to match the pro-union, so I was recruited as my husband with the examiner's out-union. A pair of coincidental couplets actually made Wang Anshi's two happy events.

a song is like the sea in spring, and a thousand lights are like day at night. " There are countless poems praising Lantern Festival lanterns by literati in past dynasties, which are still interesting to read today. Su Weidao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "The fifteenth night of the first month" that "the fire trees and silver flowers are combined, and the star bridge is locked. Dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one. " It depicts the scene where the lights and the moon are shining, the tourists are woven and the excitement is extraordinary. Zack Zhang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once praised, "Calyx Building Gate is full of rain and dew, and Chang 'an City is peaceful. The dragon holds a fire tree with a thousand lights, and the chicken steps on the lotus. " Describe the scene of enjoying the lantern festival to the fullest. Li Shangyin used the poem "The moonlight lights filled the emperor city, and the cars and treasures overflowed the thoroughfare" to describe the grand scale of watching the lights at that time. To our credit, it should also be the first to promote the Tang Dynasty poet Cui Ye's "Last Night on the Yuan Dynasty", in which the jade leaks the copper pot without urging, and the iron is locked and the gold is locked. Who can sit around on the moon and smell the lights? Although there is no positive description of the Lantern Festival, it contains a very happy and lively scene.

The Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty was even more grand, and the lantern festival was even more spectacular. Su Dongpo has a poem saying, "Lights are everywhere, and songs are everywhere." Fan Chengda also wrote in a poem, "Wutai is a prosperous place in ancient times, preferring Lantern Festival." The "shadow lamp" in the poem is the "running lantern". Xin Qiji, a great poet, once wrote a poem praising the grand occasion of the Lantern Festival, "Thousands of trees are blooming in the east wind night, and the flowers are raining down." BMW carved cars are fragrant all over the road. The wind and flute are moving, the jade pot is turning, and the fish and dragon dance all night.

The Lantern Festival, full of poetry and romance, is often associated with love. Among the poems of past dynasties, there are many poems that express their love through Yuanxiao. Ouyang Xiu wrote in the Northern Song Dynasty, "On the first night of this year, the moon and lights remained the same; I didn't see last year, and I cried Man Chun's shirt sleeve. " Expressed the pain of missing a lover.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival is noisy, and the key to the festival is the word "noisy". In the 198s, in order to enrich the holiday life of residents in the mine area, every year, employees in the mine organized entertainment activities such as welcoming Zigu, walking on stilts, dancing lions and dragon lanterns. On hearing the sound of gongs and drums, all the children in the mine followed a long line and ran all over the mine. Wherever the team went, every family set off firecrackers to welcome the totem of the whole mining area, which became a beautiful scenery in the mining area festival. With the rapid development of network information and the diversification of various entertainment activities, the mine has not held dragon lantern dance activities for many years, and the mine in the festival is suddenly deserted. After watching the ridiculous spoofs of entertainment programs on TV, people show their love for traditional folk entertainment activities, their excitement and their rich cultural heritage.

besides watching lanterns for entertainment, there is also the custom of eating Yuanxiao. Yuanxiao is also known as Tangyuan, Shuotuan and Yuanzi. Eating glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival was first seen in the sequel to Pingyuan written by Song Bida, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty. There is a record in the book that "Yuanxiao cooks rich food, but it seems that the predecessors did not give it". The floating circle in the Song Dynasty was also called Tangtuan. By the Southern Song Dynasty, only the food of Shangyuan Festival in Lin 'an included lactose balls, yam balls, pearl balls, Chengsha balls, kumquat balls, powdered water balls and glutinous rice balls. I remember that when I was a child, it was quite difficult to eat glutinous rice balls. My mother often made glutinous rice balls by grinding millet into powder, and then cooked them in a porridge pot for us to eat. Although this kind of dumplings was tasteless, it was equally sweet when the material was poor. Now the conditions are good, and all kinds of fashionable dumplings can be bought in the supermarket. There are Miss, Daoxiang Village, Sanquan, Holiland and Wanchai, and the variety is complete, including black sesame dumplings with pleasant fragrance, sesame dumplings with refreshing lubrication, hawthorn dumplings with sweet and sour appetizers, sweet bean paste dumplings, sweet and delicious lotus seed dumplings and sweet jujube paste dumplings. There are also fashionable chocolate dumplings, barbecued pork dumplings, lotus-scented dumplings and five-kernel dumplings ...

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in a year, and it is also the traditional Lantern Festival in China. White, round dumplings, take is round and round, good luck, symbolizing reunion and happiness. For today's people, the Lantern Festival is not only a festival for eating and playing, but also the inheritance of a crystallization culture of national wisdom. Chapter 2: Lantern Festival in the streets

People in the deep mountains of Qinling Mountains attach great importance to traditional festivals, especially the first of the four seasons and the first grand festival after the New Year.

Five-day years are as fast as lightning. As soon as the "Breaking Five" is over, Zhang Nuo will get up and prepare for the Lantern Festival. I really admire the word "noisy", which can be described as the finishing touch and vivid. People are like a tide, cars are like a dragon, and traffic is crawling in the street. What is shoulder to shoulder, what is sweating like rain, and what is a sea of people, it seems that words are always unsatisfactory. Noisy, shouting, tired of eating big fish and big meat, become more crisp and more like a euphemistic oriole, and the magnetism increases sharply. Today, in this busy city, the protagonist has changed gender, and women are dominating the sky.

The long street has become a sea of red lanterns. The sea is crowded with people and the lanterns are surprisingly beautiful, which makes it difficult for people who choose lanterns to move fast. It seems that only by staying in such a queue can they keep the New Year, hold the Lantern Festival and embrace a new spring in their arms at once. There are animals and plants, birds and animals, flowers, birds, fish and insects, Mei Lan, Zhu Ju and Tang Yan, Mickey Mouse, Old Crow the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Tang Priest. This year's lanterns are particularly attractive to children. Children always want to stay in the New Year atmosphere for a long time and never grow up, just like the cartoon characters in fairy tales, they will always be lovely. From those innocent childish faces, we can find the accurate answer.

You know, how important lanterns are to women? Most of them come from the countryside, and rural women didn't visit the city enough to do the new year's goods years ago, so they found this beautiful trip to the city. When they come, they don't want to rush home. Anyway, the sun is still high. Now the traffic is so convenient that they get on the Tongcun bus and sit at home. Besides, the last bus is still early. There are a wide variety of lanterns. It is not easy to choose a pair in the ocean of lanterns that is economical, durable and more satisfactory. Women are natural masters of financial management. They choose their own lanterns after comparison and identification, and they are willing to pay for them until they choose their favorite lanterns.

the folk custom of lanterns stands in the hearts of the people like the majestic Qinling Mountains. When the daughter has her first child, the grandmother must "send a lamp". Grandma sends lanterns, which means that children will live a long life, and Fu Lu Shou Xi will accompany them for a lifetime; This lantern is given for three years at a time. In the first year, you buy a lantern, and in the second year, it is also one. In the third year, it is called three years when the lantern is full, you must give a pair of lanterns, which means perfection. Flower lanterns must also be accompanied by flowers and candles. This middle-aged woman in front of her must have sent lanterns to her grandson. Look how carefully she chooses!

Young women hold their children in a "bag" on their shoulders, even like a kangaroo mother, and go with the flow in the crowd. Even pregnant women with babies are still crowded in the crowd, as if it is not a Lantern Festival without crowding, and their strength can't be scattered without crowding. Before the lantern stall, it almost became an impenetrable human wall. Curious children, the more they can't reach the lantern hung high, the more they have to pick it up with their feet and have to reach it with their hands. The result is very disappointing. Fortunately, the children are the most forgetful and then turn their eyes to another lantern stall. When children divert their attention, adults have to be extra careful. If they are not careful, they will not know where they are squeezed into the ocean of lanterns.

In the sea of lanterns, rural women choose arbitrarily and bargain hard. On the first day of the first month, they come prepared, with plenty of time, energy and wisdom. New year's food, men's stalwart, and new year's joy moisten everyone's spirits, and make everyone open their eyebrows and eyes with confidence. If the stall owner of the lantern is a big man, even though the beauty is delicious and beautiful, can he stand the beauty's dead pestering and grinding for the sake of prosperous business? I have to "reluctantly give up what I love". I will get rid of the "ecstasy" in front of me early, concentrate on it, bite my teeth, and simply push the lanterns to the lowest price and sell them to smart women. Just stop, small profits but quick turnover. Rural women are naturally happy and secretly happy, but they refuse to show their white teeth. The secret must not be revealed.

once you meet a lantern vendor who is a very smart woman, it's hard to say. Women are equal to women, just like weightlifters of the same weight class meet, not to mention a head-on encounter, at least half a catty to 82, and there will always be an arm-wrestling. Anyway, the children have a crush on this pair of lanterns. At the moment, even if they give them a pair of golden lanterns, the children will not change them. Rural women have to bite the bullet and bargain, and they will be fair and square, and they will argue that their wives are reasonable and peel off thousands of layers.

The child is already impatient, and the mother is still haggling over the price. Finally, I got the lantern, and I still need a simple "training" from the stall owner on how to switch on and off the lantern and how to change the battery. All the lanterns in the electrified era have been electrified to OK, and besides, there is no instruction manual and no simple training, okay? I don't know when the paper lanterns in the past have quietly withdrawn from the downtown area of lanterns. Besides, the paper lantern can't stand a lot of trouble. If it is not careful, or the wind blows wildly, once the candle lit in the lantern falls down, it will immediately lead the lantern, and the lantern will immediately turn into a flaming fireball. The instinctive reaction of the child is to put out the fire immediately. Although the fireball is quickly extinguished, can such a lantern still be played and continue to explode everywhere? Chapter 3: Speaking of Lantern Festival

I knew the traditional festival of Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month at an early age, but I didn't realize the "noise" of the fifteenth day of the first month when I was growing up. When I was young, life was hard, and people in the city didn't pay much attention to the Lantern Festival. By the fifteenth day of the first month, every family bought some Yuanxiao, or boiled it in water or fried it. Families with better conditions, as well as the new year's goods left over from the Spring Festival, take them out and cook a few good dishes. The family sits around in a lively way and says it's a holiday, but in the young Italian center, it's farewell. Say goodbye to the festival and the Spring Festival.

after fifteen, everything will return to normal. The so-called return to normal, the brothers and sisters who went home for the New Year in the countryside are going home, and the days of big fish and big meat are coming to an end. Life will return to normal again, and the Spring Festival, where the whole family gets together once a year, is over. Therefore, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of each year is not so much a celebration as the beginning of another farewell, which means a lot. Although everyone tacitly understood each other and tried to avoid the topic of parting, the sadness was still traceable in the low-pitched conversation. Therefore, when I was a child, the Lantern Festival was a pain in my mind, and it was the most unpleasant festival among all festivals.

For families with poor living conditions, it's just to add some Yuanxiao on top of the usual vegetable rice. Although it is a little dull, it also lacks the sadness that is deliberately hidden.

the firecrackers prepared for the spring festival are basically exhausted, that is, there are three or five two kicks, and four or five cannons are just lighting up. Therefore, there are not many things to attract children. However, after dinner, the children will also have a lantern made by themselves, or made of glass cans, or made of red paper. No matter what style, they will burn a candle in it, hold it with a stick, and take photos everywhere, especially in dark corners. They will keep repeating in their mouths: "Take photos, take photos, take photos of caterpillars, and their heads hurt." It is said that such a photo will keep the worms away for a year. This should be the only fun and "noise" of the Lantern Festival, right?

Later, I learned from the mouth of adults that the fifteenth day of the first month is a very grand festival in the countryside. Dancing dragon lanterns, dancing yangko, holding lantern festivals and singing big plays, there are many programs, which are non-stop for three or five days, and they are very lively, which can be called a "noisy" word. Although I envy and yearn for it, I can't feel the noise because I'm not in it, so I live a quiet Lantern Festival happily.

When it comes to Lantern Festival, we can't help talking about Yuanxiao. At that time, the Lantern Festival was single in variety, single in style, round and white, without packaging, and all of them were sold scattered, so people could only buy them in restaurants. Every Lantern Festival, hotels will concentrate their manpower and material resources in advance to produce Yuanxiao in large quantities for the public to buy.

I bought Yuanxiao many times, and I was lucky enough to watch the making process of Yuanxiao with my own eyes. The so-called making of Yuanxiao is to put the dumpling stuffing cut into squares into a container filled with flour (sticky rice flour) and keep digging. With the rotation, the dumpling stuffing is full of flour, and that is Yuanxiao. good