When it comes to the Lantern Festival, the first thing that comes to our mind is the word "lively", and the folk also have the word "Lantern Festival".
On this day, there are markets, fireworks, performances, beautiful lanterns and romantic encounters, and of course, soft glutinous rice balls, full of fireworks in the world. This day may be our most joyful traditional festival, and only on this day can ancient women "go out of the boudoir" to enjoy the lanterns. How many people meet and know each other, and the story of lovesickness and love takes place in the Lantern Festival.
The willow tops on the moon, people about after dusk" is about going out on the Lantern Festival, appreciating the lanterns, guessing the lantern riddles, and then meeting the lover. "The crowd looked for him, and Mu Ran looked back, but the man was in the lamplight." The Lantern Festival is actually the traditional Chinese Valentine's Day, there are no lights and no moon to entertain people, and there is no moon without lights is not spring. When spring arrives, people in the world are like jade, and the lamp burns the moon and the moon is like silver. - Ming Tang Yin's "Lantern Festival".
In the Lantern Festival, you can see the most beautiful lights in the world.
The Han suspicious stars fall, and the building hangs like the moon. ——Tang Lu Zhaolin, "Fifteen Nights of Watching the Lanterns".
The lights on the street seem to be falling stars, and the lights hanging along the building are like the bright moon hanging in the sky.
The moonlight lamp mountain is full of imperial capital, and the incense car treasure covers the pass. ——Tang Li Shangyin, "Watching the Lantern and Enjoying the Walk".
The whole city was covered with moonlight and lanterns, and the wide avenues were clogged up by ornate horse-drawn carriages.
Three hundred people danced with their sleeves, and for a while there was a sound of words in the sky. ——Tang Zhanghu, "The Fifteenth Night Light of the First Lunar Month".
Countless people danced and sang together, and the sound of singing and dancing reached the sky.
The spring breeze on the small peach branch is early, and the first time I try thin clothes. Every year is happy, the lanterns are competing, and the moon is full. - Song Li Zhizheng, "The Moon is Full and the Spring Breeze is Early on the Little Peach Branch".
The spring breeze is gentle, and on the small peach branches, take off the heavy winter clothes and put on the Luo clothes of the new year. The happiest thing every year is that the gorgeous lamps compete with each other, and the people and months are reunited.
The dissolved amber is slippery, and the bright beads float on the surface. - Song Wang Qianqiu, "Partridge Sky One Yuanzi".
When you take another bite of the Lantern Festival's rice balls, the filling is amber and flows to the spoon to dissolve softly and smoothly, and the rice balls in the bowl float on the water like bright pearls.
Full of fireworks, full of sweet fragrance, full of joy, this is not in vain to live a lively, sweet, and reunited Lantern Festival.
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