What is the Lantern Festival?
The Lantern Festival is coming in a few days. It is the time for families to reunite and watch lanterns. So while watching the lanterns, have you ever thought about how the Lantern Festival came about? What is the meaning of the Lantern Festival? Seize the time of spring and you will have a good year. The first month of spring is the most important month. Shuimoxiansheng.com brings you knowledge sharing about January. Please check out the special topic of the first month of the lunar calendar in 2019.What is the Lantern Festival?The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year, the Lantern Festival or the Lantern Festival, is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. It is the last important festival in the Chinese New Year customs. The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the year. The ancients called "night" "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon night of the year is called the Lantern Festival. According to general information and folk legends, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was already taken seriously in the Western Han Dynasty. The activity of Emperor Wu of Han worshipping "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the first night of the first lunar month was regarded by later generations as a precursor to the worship of gods in heaven on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. However, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month truly became a folk festival after the Han and Wei dynasties.The Origin of the Lantern FestivalSima Qian created the Taichu Calendar and listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival. It flourished during the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties. "Book of Sui·Music" states: "Every first month, all nations came to pay tribute, and they would stay until the 15th day in a theater outside Duanmen and inside Jianguomen, which stretched for eight miles, with plays set up as the theater stage." There were tens of thousands of people participating in the singing and dancing, from dusk to dawn, and ending at the end of the day. With the changes of society and times, the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival have undergone great changes, but it is still a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. The formation of the Lantern Festival customs has a long process. According to general information and folk legends, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was already given importance in the Western Han Dynasty. The activity of Emperor Wu of Han worshiping "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the first night of the first lunar month was regarded by later generations as a precursor to the worship of gods on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty played an important role in the formation of the Lantern Festival customs. |
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