Folk stories related to Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival, which is also an important part of our country's traditional culture. There are many folk stories during the Lantern Festival. Let's take a look at the folk stories related to the Lantern Festival.
Folk stories related to Lantern Festival 1 article 1
According to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a favorite named Dong Fangshuo, who was kind and funny. One winter, it snowed heavily for several days, and Dong Fangshuo went to the Imperial Garden to fold plum blossoms for Emperor Wu. As soon as I entered the garden gate, I found a maid-in-waiting in tears ready to throw herself into the well. Dong Fangshuo rushed forward to help and asked why she wanted to commit suicide. It turns out that this maid-in-waiting is named Yuanxiao, and there are parents and a sister at home. Since she entered the palace, she has never seen her family again. Every year, when spring comes, I miss my family more than usual. I feel that I can't be filial to my parents, so I might as well die. Dong Fangshuo was deeply sympathetic to what happened to her and assured her that she would try to reunite her with her family.
One day, Dong Fangshuo left the palace and set up a divination booth on Chang 'an Avenue. Many people are vying to ask him for divination. Unexpectedly, what everyone wants is the signature of "The 16th day of the first month will burn us". Suddenly, there was a great panic in Chang 'an. People have been asking for solutions to the disaster, and Dong Fangshuo said, "On the evening of the 13th day of the first month, Vulcan will send a goddess in red to visit the earth. She is the emissary who ordered the burning of Chang 'an. I will give you the transcribed lyrics, so that today's emperor can think of something." Say that finish, then dropped a red post and roared off. The common people picked up the red post and quickly sent it to the palace to report to the emperor.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took it and saw that it said, "Chang 'an is robbing, the imperial palace is being burned by fire, and the fire is burning for fifteen days, and the midnight snack is red." He was greatly frightened and quickly invited Dong Fangshuo, who was resourceful. Dong Fangshuo thought for a while, and said, "I heard that Vulcan loves to eat glutinous rice balls. Doesn't Yuanxiao in the palace often make glutinous rice balls for you? On the fifteenth night, Yuanxiao can make dumplings, burn incense and offer them for a long time, and order every family in Kyoto to make dumplings and worship Vulcan together. Then tell the subjects to hang lights together on the fifteenth night, light firecrackers and set off fireworks all over the city, which seems to be a fire all over the city, so that the jade emperor can be fooled. "Besides, inform the people outside the city that they will go into the city to watch the lights on the 15th night, so as to eliminate disasters and solve problems among the crowd. Upon hearing this, Emperor Wudi was very happy, so he ordered him to do it according to Dong Fangshuo's way.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, Chang 'an city was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and tourists were bustling and lively. The parents of the maid-in-waiting Yuanxiao also took their sister to the city to watch the lights. When they saw the big palace lantern with the words "Yuanxiao" written on it, they shouted in surprise: "Yuanxiao! Yuanxiao! " When Yuanxiao heard the shouts, she was finally reunited with her relatives at home.
After such a busy night, Chang 'an was safe. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed, so he ordered that glutinous rice balls should be made for Vulcan every fifteenth day of the first month, and the whole city would hang lights and set off fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first month. Because Yuanxiao makes the best dumplings, people call them Yuanxiao, and this day is called Lantern Festival.
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Lantern Festival originated from "Torch Festival". In the Han Dynasty, people held torches in rural fields to drive away insects and beasts, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a good harvest. To this day, people in some areas of southwest China still make torches out of reeds or branches on the fifteenth day of the first month, and hold them high in groups and dance in fields or grain drying fields. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been in full swing. Tens of thousands of people took part in singing and dancing, from faint to dull. With the changes of society and times, the customs and habits of Lantern Festival have changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China, and torches have gradually turned into colored lights. Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival has developed into a national carnival in China, so the Lantern Festival is the most thorough and typical traditional festival. In most places, Lantern Festival customs include eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns, as well as drum-beating, dragon-dancing and lion-dancing, but there are also unique customs in north and south.
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Legend has it that a long time ago, there were many fierce birds and beasts that hurt people and livestock everywhere, so people organized to beat them. A god bird landed on earth because it got lost, but was accidentally shot dead by an unsuspecting hunter. The Emperor of Heaven was very angry when he learned about it. He immediately sent a decree and ordered the heavenly soldiers to set fire to the earth on the 15th day of the first month, and burned all the human and animal property. The daughter of Emperor Tiandi was kind-hearted. She couldn't bear to see the innocent suffering of the people, so she risked her life and secretly drove Xiangyun to the world to tell people the news. When people heard the news, it was like a thunderclap on their heads, and they were so scared that they didn't know what to do. It was a long time before an old man came up with an idea. He said, "On the 14th, 15th and 16th of the first month, every family decorated their houses, lit firecrackers and set off fireworks. In this way, the Emperor of Heaven will think that people have been burned to death. " Everyone nodded and said yes, so they were ready to go separately. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the Emperor looked down and found that the world was red and the noise was deafening for three consecutive nights. He thought it was the flame of a big fire, and his heart was so happy. In this way, people saved their lives and property. In order to commemorate this success, every household hangs lanterns and sets off fireworks to commemorate this day on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Folk stories related to the Lantern Festival 2 Legend has it that the Lantern Festival was set up in memory of Pinglu when Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. After the death of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Lv Hou's son Liu Ying became Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty. After the death of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, Lv Hou monopolized the state affairs and turned Liu's world into Lu's world. The old minister and Liu's imperial clan in the DPRK were deeply indignant, but they were all afraid of Lv Hou's cruelty and dared not speak out.
After Lv Hou's death, Zhu Lv was in a state of anxiety, afraid of being hurt and excluded. So, in the home of the general Lv Lu, they secretly assembled and conspired for the insurrection, so as to completely seize Liu Jiangshan. The matter reached the ears of Liu Xiang, the king of the imperial clan of Liu. In order to protect Liu Jiangshan, Liu Xiang decided to fight against Zhu Lv and then got in touch with zhou bo and Chen Ping, the founding veteran, and designed to lift Lv Lu. The "Zhu Lv Rebellion" was finally completely put down.
After the rebellion, all the ministers established Liu Heng, the fourth son of Liu Bang, as Emperor Wen of Chinese. Deeply impressed by the hard-won peace and prosperity, Emperor Wendi designated the 15th day of the first month to quell the "Zhulu Rebellion" as a fun day with the people, and every family in the capital decorated with lanterns to celebrate. Since then, the fifteenth day of the first month has become a popular folk festival-"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. It is said that when Sima Qian founded the "taichu calendar", the Lantern Festival was identified as a major festival.
Putian area of Yuanxiao custom and local custom;
In Putian, the Lantern Festival celebrates the Spring Festival. In the past month, different villages and surnames have had Lantern Festival in different forms every day, and the activities are colorful. On the Lantern Festival in a certain village, there will be a palace society to set up vegetarian dishes, set up a "banquet table", stack cakes and fruits, and set up an orange tower, and the villagers will carry the statue of Bodhisattva.
Every household hall is decorated with incense tables, burning incense and shooting, turning "tribute silver" and burning firewood, praying for a more prosperous life in the coming year. At night, I stayed up all night, swimming in lanterns, swinging brown bridges, jumping on fire, dancing dragons and lions, and performing big dramas.
Putian Lantern Festival is the most lively on the 14th, 15th and 16th days, which is called "Yuanxiao Heart". At the same time, Putian also has the customs of "Zongyuanxiao" and "Mazu Yuanxiao". The Lantern Festival is actually a literary "outing". The "outing" teams include cavalry, dressing pavilion, colorful flag team, ten tones and eight music, dragon dance and lion dance. Swim from 8: 00 a.m. to the palace temple at night 12.
The custom of Mazu Lantern Festival is generally on the coastal islands of Puxian, especially on Meizhou Island. The exact day of Mazu Lantern Festival is on the tenth day of the first month. There is a custom of "Candle Mountain" in the Lantern Festival in Mazu Tempel. Mazu Lantern Festival will last until the 29th of the first month, because the dragon lanterns dancing in Puxian have to be cremated. According to folklore, if the dragon lantern is not cremated, the dragon will turn into a "evil dragon" and hurt the people.
Because the dragon is the symbol of the ancient emperor, the general level of the palace and temple is low, so it is impossible to perform the duty of "transforming the dragon", and Mazu, the dragon girl, must take this position. After the Lantern Festival in each township is over, all the dragon lanterns will be gathered and "transformed into dragons" on the 29th of the first month of Mazu Lantern Festival.
Folk stories related to the Lantern Festival 3 The past of the Lantern Festival
As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Jian Wendi of Nanliang wrote a poem "Liedeng Fu": "The oil in the south is full, and the paint in the west is burning. Su Zheng rests in peace, and wax comes out of Longchuan. The oblique light is reflected, and the reflection is clear. " It depicts the grand occasion when the court decorated lanterns at the Lantern Festival. During Emperor Yangdi's reign, a grand party was held on the 15th day of the first month every year to entertain guests and envoys from all over the world. According to "Sui Shu Music Records", the Lantern Festival is very grand, with lanterns and colorful decorations everywhere, singing and dancing day and night, with more than 30,000 performers and more than 18,000 musicians. The stage is eight miles long, and countless people are playing and watching the lanterns, staying up all night, enjoying themselves and being very lively.
The story of the idiom "second time around" is a sad love swan song related to the Lantern Festival. Chen Shubao, South Chen Houzhu, has a younger sister Princess Lechang, who is both talented and beautiful, and married Prince Scheeren Xu Deyan. At that time, Sui Jun was under siege, and the demise of Nan Chen was inevitable. Worried about the separation of husband and wife after the death of the old country, Xu Deyan agreed with Princess Lechang to break a bronze mirror and take half of it as a proof of meeting each other later, and agreed to sell the mirror in the market on the fifteenth day of the first month of the first month in order to get news from each other. Soon, Chen Guo was destroyed by Sui. Because Yang Su, who had made great contributions to the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, broke Chen Yougong, Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty made a fuss, sent Princess Lechang to Yang Suzhong and gave her a concubine. Yang Su is very fond of Lechanggong, and also specially built a house for him. Princess Lechang, however, was unhappy all day and said nothing.
Very easy to look forward to the fifteenth day of the first month of the following year, Xu Deyan, who had done all the robbery, hurried to the market. Sure enough, he saw an old man selling half a bronze mirror, and it was expensive, which made people afraid to ask. Xu Deyan looked at half a bronze mirror, gave the money at the price the old man wanted, and immediately led the old man to his own residence. Xu Deyan tearfully told the story of the broken mirror to the old man, and took out the other half of the bronze mirror he treasured ... The old man who sold the mirror was deeply moved, and he promised Xu Deyan that he must pass the message between them. Xu Deyan then wrote a poem: The mirror goes with people, and the mirror does not return to people. Without the shadow of Chang 'e, the moon will shine in the air. After the poem was finished, Xu Deyan thanked the old man for bringing it to Princess Lechang.
Princess Lechang couldn't help feeling sad when she saw her husband's poem, and she couldn't get in all day. After repeated questioning, Yang Su found out the reasons, and was deeply moved, which suddenly gave birth to the heart of adult beauty. He immediately sent someone to call Xu Deyan into the house, so that his husband and wife could reunite and return to their hometown. So there was the story of second time around, which has been passed down to this day.
In the Song Dynasty, when a man named Jia Sidao was guarding Huaiyin, one year during the Lantern Festival, some of the guests picked poems from Tang poetry as lanterns. "It's a moonlit night in three minutes, and there is a small red building in Yangzhou." It is said that this couplet is the earliest lantern couplet in China. Since then, people in all previous dynasties have followed suit, hanging wall lanterns and door lanterns on the gates or conspicuous columns, which has enlivened the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival.
In the Song Dynasty, there was a satrap Cai Junmo in Fuzhou. In order to whitewash the peace, he made a decree, forcing the common people in Fuzhou to light seven lanterns at the Lantern Festival. At that time, there was a man named Exhibition who made a headlight more than ten feet high and wrote a poem on it: "A rich man has a lamp and a millet in Taicang;" The poor family has a lamp, and the father and son are crying. " The satrap Cai Junmo saw this poem and had to withdraw the regulations. The lantern poems on display can be described as a portrayal of the lives of poor people, and this satrap can also be regarded as a man who knows the times.
Perhaps the most widely told anecdote is that the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival couplet made Wang Anshi, a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty, have good luck. When Wang Anshi was 20 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 used the flying tiger flag fluttering in the wind to link up "Flying Tiger Flag, Flying Tiger Flag, and Tiger Flag to hide." 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 marriage couplet, so I returned to the examiner's couplet and was recruited as my husband. A pair of coincidental couplets actually made Wang Anshi's two happy events. This anecdote has not been recorded in the history of faith, so it should be a folklore.
The Lantern Festival in Song Dynasty is more lively. 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. "Tourists gather under the two corridors of Yujie Street, with fantastic 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.
The story of Zhu Yuanzhang's killing because of a Lantern Festival riddle is also widely circulated among the people. Zhu Yuanzhang went out of the palace incognito one year to see how Nanjing people celebrated the Lantern Festival. When I came to a place in solve riddles on the lanterns, I saw a group of people guessing a picture puzzle. The picture shows a barefoot woman holding a watermelon, and the riddle asks to guess a local proverb. The result was guessed, and the answer was "Huaixi women have big feet." Lantern riddles pay attention to different solutions. The homonym of Huaixi here is Huaixi, which means that a woman with watermelon in her arms has big feet. This is a common saying that Nanjing people laughed at Anhui women at that time. Zhu Yuanzhang was greatly annoyed when he listened to it, thinking that it was the dark queen Ma Shi. Because Ma Huanghou is from Huaixi, and he has a pair of extra-large feet. Zhu Yuanzhang secretly wrote down the residence of the riddle family, and the next day he sent troops to kill all the people in this alley.
Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, traveled incognito during the Lantern Festival in a certain year, and met a scholar, who had a rather speculative talk. Zhu Di went out to test his talent, and Lianyun said, "The lights are bright and the moon is bright, and the lights are long and bright, and Daming is unified." The scholar immediately wrote to the next couplet, "Jun Le Folk Music, Jun Min Le, Yong Le Wan Nian." "Yongle" is the title of Ming Chengzu, and Zhu Di was overjoyed and rewarded the scholar.
There are also a pair of father and son celebrities who add luster to the Lantern Festival. Zhang Ying and Zhang Tingyu, from Tongcheng, Anhui Province in the Qing Dynasty, who were known as "the bachelor of father and son, the second prime minister", were both good at poetry. One year, during the Lantern Festival, the old prime minister sent out a joint test: "The red candle with high fever reflected the sky, bright and shining 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 father and son are both extraordinary in their exports, and they are in perfect harmony, making a wonderful pair.
Yuan Shikai is a historical celebrity who has a headache and hates the Lantern Festival. When he became emperor because of the historical trend, he changed his name to Yuanxiao. Yuan Shikai felt unlucky because of the homonym of "Yuanxiao" and "Yuan Xiao", so he ordered the whole country to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and the people ate "Yuanxiao" instead of "Tangyuan". On second thought, "Tangyuan"-"Tang Yuan" can't be "Tang Boiled Yuan Shikai"? So once again, the whole country renamed "Tangyuan" as "Tangtuan". At that time, there was a folk song: the great president, Hong Xiannian, changed the name of "Yuanxiao" to "Tangyuan"; After the Lantern Festival next year, who will be called "Tangtuan"? After "Yuan Xiao", a busybody once wrote a doggerel on this matter: "The poem goes back to the previous dynasty, and the water floats when it is steamed and boiled. Hong xian banned it that year, and it was not allowed to shout Yuanxiao along the street. "
Brief introduction of Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyian Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the 15th day of the first lunar month every year, which is the last important festival in China Spring Festival. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year is called the Lantern Festival.
In the ancient customs of China, Shangyuan Festival (Tianguan Festival), Zhongyuan Festival (Diguan Festival, Yulanben Festival) and Xiayuan Festival (Shuiguan Festival) are collectively called Sanyuan. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month has been paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. The activities of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to sacrifice "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the night of the first month are regarded by later generations as the first sound of offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month. However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month was really a folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties.
Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. [1] Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, burning lamps and setting off flames, enjoying solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao, and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances such as playing with dragon lanterns, playing with lions, walking on stilts, rowing on dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival.
In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.