Is the Lantern Festival the Shangyuan Festival? Where do Lantern Festival lanterns come from?
As we all know, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is my country's Lantern Festival. As one of my country's traditional festivals, the Lantern Festival has various customs and etiquette. So is the Lantern Festival the Shangyuan Festival? Where do Lantern Festival lanterns come from? The Fortune Teller website provides you with more information related to the first month of the lunar calendar in 2018. You are welcome to learn more about it!Is the Lantern Festival the Shangyuan Festival?The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, Lantern Night, and Lantern Festival, which originated from Taoism. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Zimu said in "Dreams of the Southern Song Dynasty: Lantern Festival": "The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, when the Heavenly Official bestows blessings." Since the Middle Ages, China has had the custom of hanging lanterns and watching the Lantern Festival, so it is also called the "Lantern Festival." The custom of viewing lanterns was most popular during the Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty·Meng Yuanlao's Dream of the Eastern Capital records the Lantern Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty's capital Bianjing (now Kaifeng) and says: "On the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Kaifeng government tied up the mountain sheds and erected a tree facing the Yide Tower. Tourists gathered under the two corridors of the Imperial Street, performing magic tricks, singing and dancing... The Southern Song Dynasty's Lantern Festival was unprecedentedly grand. The Southern Song Dynasty·Zhou Mi and Cui Wulin's Old Stories, Volume 2, records that the capital Lin'an (now Hangzhou) built lantern mountains everywhere, and dozens of dance teams paraded and performed in the lantern market, with rewards from the government. There were crowds of men and women watching, often all night long. The Lantern Festival is one of the most solemn festivals in ancient China, and the custom of watching lanterns has been passed down to this day.Where do Lantern Festival lanterns come from?Watching lanterns and guessing riddles are connected. In ancient times, lanterns were written with some word riddles, object riddles, or accompanied by relevant pictures to make it easier for the guesser to understand. Later, the covers of woodcut New Year pictures of lanterns were decorated with historical figures and opera stories, and riddles were placed in the corners to arouse guessing competition among men and women watching the lanterns, which increased the fun of watching the lanterns.This ancient custom has appeared at least in the Spring and Autumn Period. Lantern riddles are called "lantern tigers", guessing lantern riddles is called "shooting tigers", and people call it "beating lantern tigers". Nowadays, many lanterns still have riddles on them. A common one is the Lantern Festival riddle guessing competition with prizes. There are prizes for guessing, and the enthusiasm of the riddle guessers is even higher. The word "Nao Yuan Xiao" means to have fun at night, and having fun at night is inseparable from lights. Therefore, the custom of hanging lanterns, watching lanterns and guessing lantern riddles was formed during the Lantern Festival. It can be said that the Lantern Festival is a carnival with humanistic significance. By the Sui Dynasty, the scale and form of China's Lantern Festival had been formed and basically finalized. It is said in "Zizhi Tongjian·Sui Ji" that on the evening of the 15th day of the first lunar month in the Duanmen area of Luoyang, "the theater was silent for five thousand steps, and there were eighteen thousand people playing stringed instruments. The sound could be heard for dozens of miles, from dusk to dawn, the lights illuminated the sky and the earth, and it ended at the end of the month, at a cost of millions." |
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