The two most famous lines of the Hungry Ghost Festival poems are as follows:

1. Who teaches the red lotus night every year? The two places meditate and know each other. ——Jiang Kui's "Partridge Sky: Dreaming on New Year's Eve"

Translation: I don't know who made me think about it day and night on this New Year's Eve. Only you and I understand this feeling. .

2. Thousands of doors are opened and thousands of lights are lit, and the capital is moved in the middle of the first lunar month. ——Zhang Hu's "Lights on the Fifteenth Night of the First Lunar Month"

Translation: During the Lantern Festival, thousands of households walked out of their homes, and countless lanterns lit up the streets, as if the entire Kyoto was shaken.

3. At five o'clock, the music and songs disperse, and the moon is bright and the lights are sparse. ——He Zhu's "Siyue People: When the East Wind blows in the Purple Mansion at Night"

Translation: The bell of the fifth watch rang, the music and songs had dispersed, the moonlight was bright and the lights were sparse.

4. The incense of sheng is blown under the tent, and musk deer is spit out, and there is no trace of dust following the horse. ——Su Shi's "Die Lian Hua Mizhou Shangyuan"

Translation: The sheng is played under the tent, and the aroma of burning incense is like musk, and not a trace of dust follows the horse.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, and Lantern Festival. The first month of the first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the "Lantern Festival". With the changes of society and times, the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival have already undergone major changes, but it is still a traditional Chinese folk festival.

When the Lantern Festival was formed in the early stages of the festival, it was only called the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the first half of the first lunar month or the first day of the month. After the Sui Dynasty, it was called Yuanxi or Yuanye. In the early Tang Dynasty, it was influenced by Taoism.

Also known as Shangyuan, it was occasionally called Yuanxiao in the late Tang Dynasty. But since the Song Dynasty, it has also been called Dengxi. In the Qing Dynasty, it was also called Lantern Festival. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Chinese people are known to enjoy a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks.