Thousands of trees bloom at night in the east wind. More blows down, stars like rain.
Song: Xin Qiji's "Qingyu Case: Yuan Xi".
Translation: It is like a spring breeze that blows thousands of trees and flowers open, and then blows them down one after another, like meteors and rain.
The Lantern Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years in our country, and its alias is Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozheng Yue, Yuan Xi, and Lantern Festival, and it has the custom of appreciating lanterns since Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The development of the Tang Dynasty with strong national strength, the Lantern Festival lantern appreciation is unprecedented, whether it is the capital Chang'an or the countryside, everywhere is full of lights, everywhere fire trees and silver flowers, very prosperous and lively.
The Tang Dynasty poet Su Wei (Su Shi's eleventh ancestor) has a poem "The Fifteenth Night of the First Lunar Month", describing the gorgeous and prosperous scene of the Lantern Festival in Chang'an City.
One of the sentences: "The fire tree and silver flowers are closed, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened." ”
Later, in the Song Dynasty, the most lively and grand festival was no longer the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival.
This poem is more than 800 years ago in the Southern Song Dynasty, Xin Qijian walked on the streets of Lin'an (now Hangzhou), the lanterns were bright, countless fireworks bloomed in the night sky like flowers, the stars were intertwined, and it was very lively.
Xin Qiji recorded this scene and wrote this beautiful Yuan Xi poem, and every Lantern Festival since then has been dyed with the color of this poem.
When we see colorful fireworks blooming in the sky and falling like stars, we will think of this classic verse.
The weather is cold and difficult to lock the new spring, and the stove is warm and suitable for cooking white jade pills.
Dongfang Jun "Partridge Sky Qing Yuanxiao".
Translation: Cold weather can't lock the breath of spring, and a warm fire is suitable for cooking delicious Lantern Festival.
In addition to the traditional folk customs of the Lantern Festival, such as appreciating lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, and dancing dragon lanterns, there is also a very important custom of eating Lantern Festival.
The earliest name of the Lantern Festival is "Oil Painting Pearl", very beautiful and has to admire the romance of the ancients, in the Song Dynasty Zheng Wangzhi's "Chef Lu" has a record: "Bianzhong diet, Shangyuan oil hammer".
According to the description of "Taiping Guangji", the method of oil hammer is to use soft noodles to trap jujube and fry it. It tastes crispy and delicious, which is the fried Lantern Festival we eat now.
The earliest name of the glutinous rice balls was "lactose balls", which appeared from time to time in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was only in the Ming Dynasty that there were really names for glutinous rice balls and Lantern Festival.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the "History of the Ming Palace" recorded the practice of the Lantern Festival in Beijing, "eating the Lantern Festival with glutinous rice and fine noodles, walnut kernels and sugar as the filling, and the water rolled into a walnut as big, that is, the so-called rice balls in the south of the Yangtze River."
Since then, the term tangyuan has prevailed in the south, and the term lantern festival has prevailed in the north, and it has also been spread in the south.
The willow tops on the moon, people about after dusk.
Song: Ouyang Xiu's "Shengchazi Yuan Xi".
The moon crept up the willow treetops, and people met after dusk.
The Lantern Festival is a particularly romantic and beautiful festival in ancient China, and it is our ancient "Valentine's Day".
In ancient times, it was difficult for men and women to have the opportunity to meet, unlike we are as free as we are, whether in reality or on the Internet, you can talk about boyfriends and girlfriends at will.
In the poem of Su Wei in the Tang Dynasty, it is said that "the iron lock of the star bridge is opened", which refers to the abolition of the curfew system three days before the Lantern Festival, and people can freely enter and leave Chang'an City.
Bai Juyi's poem says that "thousands of doors are unlocked and thousands of lights are bright", which also describes the grand occasion of people competing to go out and the streets full of tourists.
On such a moonlit reunion night, how many lovers are eagerly looking forward to each other's beloved companions and exchanging their heartfelt feelings.
Just like the woman in this poem, she has accumulated a year of lovesickness, and is full of expectations for the appearance of her sweetheart, but it is a pity that "the moon and the lamp are still the same, and I don't see last year." ”
Under the moon, I was alone and let my tears wet my spring shirt, which was moving!
Lights on Qiantang for three or five nights.
The bright moon is like frost, and it is picturesque to see people.
Song: Su Shi's "Butterfly Loves Flowers: Mizhou Shangyuan".
Translation: On the night of the Lantern Festival in Hangzhou, the bright moon hangs high in the sky like frost, and the people are as beautiful as in the painting.
Sanwu Night: refers to the night of the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.
This poem was written in the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Xining of the Song Dynasty (1075), Su Shi was about 39 years old, and after spending three years of the Lantern Festival in Hangzhou, he was transferred to Mizhou at the end of his term, just to be closer to his younger brother Su Zhe who served in Qizhou.
During the Lantern Festival in the first year of his arrival in Mizhou, Su Shi enjoyed the lanterns with the people and enjoyed the lanterns together, but Mizhou was far less bright than the lights in Hangzhou.
The fire is cold and the light is sparse and the frost is dewed", and the people beat the drums for a while, and finally turned to the fields to cultivate. This naturally reminds me of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival in Hangzhou.
On the night of the full moon, the lights are brilliant, the water and the moon are facing each other, people are dressed up one by one to travel, and the lanterns reflect the people as beautiful as the people in the painting.
With such a beautiful scene, the lantern festival in Hangzhou is still visible today!
Full of flowers and shadows on the third and fifth days of the month, a bowl of soup is full of love.
Lantern Festival Night Thoughts".
Translation: On the night of the Lantern Festival, a bright moon hangs high, flowers and shadows overlap, and a bowl of rice balls on the table is full of friendship.
Glutinous rice balls are as warm as jade, sweet and sweet, symbolizing beauty and reunion, and are a must-have food for every household during the Lantern Festival.
It is not only food, but also represents a complex, an expectation for a better life, and a vision and hope for the future.
When the family sits together, eating steaming rice balls, smiling faces.
It is the taste of love, the taste of home, and the taste of happiness.
Final blessings to all:I wish you all the best, I wish you a happy reunion, and I wish you all the best dreams.
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