Shangyuan, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. Traditional festivals in China. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is this festival every year. According to the folk tradition in China, on this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate. Enjoy the moon, light lamps, set off fireworks, solve riddles on the lanterns, celebrate the Lantern Festival, and have family reunion.

Interpretation by reference:

1. Festival name. According to custom, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is Shangyuan Festival, also called Lantern Festival.

Zhong Zongji in Old Tang Dynasty: "In the fourth year of Jinglong, the emperor and the queen strolled to the Lantern Festival."

The sixth chapter of "Water Margin": "The next day, it is the fifteenth day of the first month, the Shangyuan Festival, and there will be mysteries. At dusk, there are fires in six streets and three cities, lanterns are lit everywhere, and streets and alleys."

Pan Qingrong Bi's "Ji Shengjing Emperor Going Up the Mountain at the Age of Four": "On New Year's Eve, all the monks point to the lighthouse to play music, and the golden light is bright and empty, and they are happy in the sky."

2. One of the names of ancient calendars.

Records of the Historian Tian Guan Shu: "Its Ji is Yuan." Sima Zhen Suoyin: "Shangyuan is the name of the ancient calendar."

Textual research on the history of the new Five Dynasties and the four fields: "If you are not ten million years old, you will get the winter solstice at Jiazi night, and the sun, the moon and the five stars are all in the child, which is called Shangyuan, thinking that the calendar begins."

3. In the old days, 60 years was regarded as a Jiazi, and people who spoke about Yin-Yang and Five Elements took the third Jiazi * * * 180 years as a week, calling the first Jiazi "Shangyuan".

4. The fairy name in ancient myths and legends, namely "Mrs. Shangyuan".

Tang Wang Bo's "Qixi Fu": "Shang Yuan entered the book to pass on the treasure, and Wang Muqiong recommended the gold contract."

Tang Li Bai's "Antique" 43: "The Queen Mother was given a banquet in the West Sea, and Gong Bei invited Shang Yuan."

5. refers to heaven and earth.

Tang Dynasty's poem "Looking south at the incense burner of Hanyuan Temple facing the sun" said: "Resist the temple to vent the head of state and pick up Yuan."

6. refers to the emperor.

Zhang Mingjuzheng's "Thirty Rhymes of Shouyan Shao Shi": "Grab the yuan and hold the balance."