Why is the Lantern Festival also called Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival, and why can’t we have a holiday?
Everyone looks forward to family reunion. As for the Lantern Festival, do you know why it is also called Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival, and why we can’t have a holiday? All things are difficult at the beginning. Is the arrival of 2021 a new test or opportunity for most people? Let’s start to understand from the first month of the lunar calendar, and pay attention to the special content of the first month of 2021 on Shuimoxiansheng.com to get more fortune reminders.Why is the Lantern Festival also called Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival?Lantern Festival:The Lantern Festival is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In ancient times, this day was called "Shangyuan Festival" . "Xiao" means night, so there is the "Lantern Festival". The Lantern Festival is the first full-moon night of the lunar year. People have the custom of watching lanterns and eating Lantern Festival dumplings. Festival of Lights: As the folk saying goes, "Fire on the 30th and lanterns on the 15th" and "Celebrate the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month." Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called the "Festival of Lanterns." 2021 Lantern Festival Riddles1. Riddle: Why do the adults leave one by one? (a two-character humble word)Answer: Xiao Ke Analysis: The “大人一一” in the word “奈何” has left, leaving the word “小可”. 2. Riddle: Comprehensive reform for change (a two-character name from "Water Margin") Answer: Wang Lun Analysis: After the reform of the character "Quan", it can be combined with the changed character "Hua" to become the two characters "Wang Lun". 3. Riddle: After putting on makeup, a person looks pretty (guess the name of a festival) Answer: Lantern Festival Analysis: The character “肖” (Xiao) and “人” (Ren) are combined to form the character “巧” (Qiao). After being dressed up, "Xiao" and "Wanren" can become the word "Yuanxiao". 4. Riddle: The moonlight of Lantern Festival sprinkles in front of the window (guess one word) Answer: One Analysis: The "moonlight" and "window(宀)" in the word "Yuanxiao" have fallen, leaving the word "一". 5. Riddle: Counting money like crazy during the Lantern Festival (a four-character proverb) Answer: A little festive Analysis: “A bit” should not be interpreted as “a bit of money”. "Celebrating the festival" means "celebrating the Lantern Festival." 6. Riddle: The actors’ fighting is amazing (guess one word) Answer: Horn Analysis: "角" means "actor" and also means "fighting"; "角" and "绝" have the same pronunciation. The riddle is answered three times. 7. Riddle: The grass grows in the field, but the heart is not busy (guess a solar term) Answer: Grain in Ear Analysis: "禾中" is combined into the word "种". “心不忙” should not be interpreted as “忙” without “心”, leaving only “亡”, which becomes “牡丹” after growing “草”. 8. Riddle: No news after leaving (guess a word) Answer: Check Analysis: Remove the “一” from the character “查” and the remaining character is “杳”. "杳" means to disappear and to be out of trace. 9. Riddle: Pick one or two out of a hundred and fall in love (guess a word) Answer: All Analysis: Remove the “一” from the character “百”, leaving “白”; the center of the character “倾” is “匕”. 10. Riddle: The character "香" is missing a stroke, so it cannot be used as the character "杳" (guess a word) Answer: Apricot Analysis: The character “香” is missing “一” and “撇”, leaving the character “杏”. Why not take a holiday?Tracing back history, we will find that the Lantern Festival——Han Dynasty: 1 day off Tang Dynasty: 3 days off Song Dynasty: 5 days off Ming Dynasty: 12 days off Qing Dynasty: 1 month off Now: 0 days off To sum up, the ancients not only had a holiday on the Lantern Festival, but also had a variety of colorful festive activities, which was simply too joyful. Cause Analysis—— The reason is not that the Lantern Festival is not important, but because this festival is too close to the Spring Festival. Frequent holidays will undoubtedly affect work. After all, it is not enough to just have fun, you also have to work and live. If we pay more careful attention, we will find a fact that the reason why the ancients had a holiday on the Lantern Festival was because there was no big festival called the Spring Festival at that time. Since the Republic of China, the status of New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival has been greatly improved, and their duration has been greatly extended. The Lantern Festival has been overshadowed, and naturally the necessity of a holiday has been reduced. But whether there is a holiday or not will not affect the excitement of the Lantern Festival. No matter how the system is set, it will not affect the joyful atmosphere of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. All "units" will also humanely leave work early, allowing people to enjoy the last carnival of the first month of the lunar year in the "flower market lit up as bright as day". |
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