Which traditional festival is referred to by the phrase "the moon on the willow, after dusk"?

1. Lantern Festival.

2. It is from "Sheng Chazi - Yuanxiao" by Ouyang Xiu, a literati of the Song Dynasty.

3, the original text

Last year, on the night of the Lantern Festival, the lights in the flower market were like daytime.

The moon rose above the willow, and people met after dusk.

This year on New Year's Eve, the moon and the lights are still the same.

It's not the same as last year's, but the sleeves of my shirt are wet with tears.

4. Translation

Last year at the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the lights of the flower market were as snowy as in the daytime. The moon rose above the willow trees, and he asked me to talk with him after dusk.

This year's Lantern Festival was the same as last year's, with moonlight and lights. I can't see last year's lover anymore, and I can't help but feel that I'm soaked to the skin with tears.

Background of Composition

This poem was written on a date. It may be regarded as the lyricist's remembrance of his second wife, Mrs. Yang, in the third year of Jingyou's reign (1036).

Ouyang Xiu loved Han and Liu's ancient texts since he was a child, and later took Han and Liu as the model for his writing, but he did not blindly revere the ancient, and he took Han and Liu's ancient texts from the side of the word, and discarded the strange, dangerous, and profound tendency that had already been revealed in Han and Liu's ancient texts. At the same time, Ouyang Xiu on the parallelism of the artistic achievements and not a blanket denial, Yang Yi and others are also quite appreciated.

In this way, Ouyang Xiu theoretically corrected the bias of Liukai and Shijie, and also corrected some shortcomings of Han and Liou's ancient texts, thus establishing a correct guiding ideology for the innovation of poetry and literature in the Northern Song Dynasty, and opening up a broad prospect for the development of ancient texts in the Song Dynasty.

Ouyang Xiu advocated the innovation of poetry and literature is essentially against the style of the Five Dynasties and the early Song Xikun style, but Ouyang Xiu's literary theories and creative practices are very different from those of the ancient school of literary theorists since the opening of the Willow. Before Ouyang Xiu presided over the literary world, the literary style represented by the Xikun style had already been severely criticized. Ouyang Xiu, while opposing the Xikun style, but also opposed to the "Taixue style".

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