The Lantern Festival can set off fireworks. Now many cities have implemented a ban on fireworks, but the Lantern Festival, is essential fireworks, to celebrate the traditional festival! So many cities of the Lantern Festival, there will be a designated time, place can let the public fireworks, will also hold a grand fireworks display. The following is my carefully recommended for you to the Lantern Festival fireworks related knowledge, I hope to be able to help you.
First, the Lantern Festival fireworks legend
Legend in a long time ago, a lot of birds and beasts, all around the harm to people and livestock, people organized to fight them, there is a bird of prey for the lost and landed on earth, but accidentally was unknowingly hunters to shoot dead. The emperor was furious when he found out about it, and immediately sent a decree ordering the heavenly soldiers to come to earth on the 15th day of the first month to set fire to all human and animal properties on earth. The emperor's daughter is kind-hearted, can't bear to see the people suffer innocently, so she risked her life, secretly rode the auspicious clouds to the earth, and told the message to the people. When the people heard this message, it was as if a thunderbolt had rung over their heads. They were so scared that they didn't know what to do. After a long time, an old man came up with a method, saying: "On the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth day of the first month, every family will put up lanterns, light firecrackers and set off fireworks in their houses. In this way, the Emperor of Heaven will think that people are burned to death."
All of them nodded their heads in agreement, and went their separate ways to get ready. By the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the Emperor of Heaven looked down and found a red light and loud noise on the earth, for three nights in a row, and thought that it was the flames of a great fire burning in a great quickness. The people thus preserved their lives and their property. In order to commemorate this success, from then on every first month of the fifteenth, every family hangs lanterns, fireworks to commemorate this day.
The Lantern Festival
Beijing
The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. From the thirteenth day of the first month to the seventeenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the people of Beijing are entertained for five whole days and nights. The most important activity of the Lantern Festival in old Beijing is to enjoy the lanterns. Beijing's lantern market in the Ming Dynasty in the East City Lantern Market, Lantern Festival night, the streets on both sides of the city, on the jewelry and jade, down to the daily necessities, a full range of stores are hanging silk yarn, burned beads, Mingjiao, straw, straw made of various types of lanterns for people to enjoy. In the Qing Dynasty, the lamp market throughout the city of Beijing.
Hebei Province
Yongping Province Lantern Festival, sick women gathered under the kiln, called "Tao Moxibustion". Children staggered to the bridge, called "Duo Bai'er". Some people also cut paper for nine paper rope, hand knotted to divine the blame, called "knot sheep's intestines". And twelve face calendars to store oil into the pot to steam, to face the calendars of the amount of water to foretell the month's rain or shine. Jinghai County on the Yuan Festival to large steamed bread for the festival. Qingyun County Lantern Festival men ask the five ancestors to teach boxing stick, women ask Zigu divination blame.
Anhui Province
Nearing the Lantern Festival these days, Huainan City, Datong District on the kiln town of the streets of the community and the countryside in the fields, a variety of folklore cultural performances one after another. Twisting flower drum lanterns, dragon lanterns, lions rolling embroidered balls, stilts, lifting the cabinet, flower stick, lanterns, umbrella lanterns, dry boat, one-pole bridge and other colorful performances, not only the New Year's atmosphere to ***, but also let the young and old people in the townships to appreciate the unique culture of the Huaihe River style. On both sides of the Huai River, there is an old saying that "the fifteenth day of the first month of the year is as big as the year". The first three days of the New Year, people are busy with the old and the new, visiting friends and relatives, can not care about food can not care to play, the Lantern Festival is the strongest flavor of the year moment.
Fuyang people are hardworking and smart, in the long-term production and life practice, the continuous development and creation, the formation of a unique mass culture. There are forms of lively, rich in content of the opera, there are unique regional characteristics of folk dance and theater. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, these colorful mass cultures converge into the unique Fuyang Lantern Festival. Every year on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Lantern Festival, every day, the masses will spontaneously put their own made flowers, birds, insects, fish and beasts lamps, twelve zodiac lights and so on a variety of different shapes of colorful lanterns hanging in front of their homes. Lantern Festival Lantern Festival also sing some big opera, there is a play or more than two plays sing, also known as the "theater play". At the same time, the family also set off a variety of fireworks to cheer.
Shanxi Province
Hanging lanterns, is a form of Shanxi people to celebrate the Lantern Festival must. Whenever the Lantern Festival comes, families are hanging up all kinds of lights, from fourteen to sixteen, open every night, as far as the eye can see, the buildings are colorful, the whole city dressed in rich and brilliant, the units also scramble to make a variety of lanterns, hanging up on the street for people to enjoy, lanterns in many styles, countless, there are animals, Chinese zodiac, there are riddles riddles, there are lanterns, modern Electrical appliances, but also to celebrate the new life of modern people, airplanes, rockets, spaceships, there are drum lamps, Runcorn lamps, fish, shrimp, chicken, duck and goose lamps, orange, banana and pineapple lamps, palace lanterns, Ruyi lamps, material silk lamps, glass lamps, horse lanterns ...... shaped ***, a variety of different colors.
Fireworks, for the people of Shanxi Lantern Festival the most delightful activities. Lantern Festival night in the square are going to fireworks activities, when the whole family went to the street, to see the beautiful fireworks, fireworks more and more beautiful, more and more big, more and more high technology, more and more beautiful color more and more colorful.
Literary Street Stomping, known as the folk culture make-up big ***. "Dress up the story, full of jewelry, bells and drums, a country as crazy." *** Ming Qiao Yuan "Min Book" ***. From fourteen to sixteen, three consecutive days in various counties and districts are organized in various cultural performances of large and small to the city, folk art, modern art display, traditional arts and crafts, ancient music and music, eight sound will be, there is a costume play, the pattern of the more than countless. Run a large-scale light show. Each unit wants to sound, light, color all the large-scale light show on the street. There are on behalf of auspicious, there are on behalf of happiness, there are on behalf of the ancient legends, there are with the meaning of enlightenment.
Three, the development of the Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, as early as 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty Ming Di period, the Ming Di advocated Buddhism, heard that the Buddhist monks on the 15th day of the first month of the view of the Buddha's relics, lamps and worship of the Buddha's practice, the night of the order of the day in the Imperial Palace and temples, lamps and worship of Buddha, so the common people of the civilized people. To honor the Buddha, so that the common people all hang lights. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. The festival has gone through a process of development from the palace to the folk, from the Central Plains to the whole country.
In the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the 15th day of the first month has been ordered to be designated as the Lantern Festival. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, the sacrifice of "Taiyi God" was scheduled on the 15th day of the first month. ***Taiyi: the god who dominates everything in the universe***. Sima Qian established the "Taichu Calendar", the Lantern Festival has been identified as a major holiday.
Another theory is that the Lantern Festival custom originated in Taoism's "Sanyuan"; the 15th day of the first month of the first yuan festival, July 15 for the middle yuan festival, October 15 for the lower yuan festival. In charge of the upper, middle and lower Sanyuan for the sky, earth, people, three officials, the heavenly officials happy, so the Lantern Festival to light.
The Lantern Festival festival period and festival activities, is with the development of history and extend, expand the kit. In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is since the eighth light, until the night of the first month of the seventeenth before the lights, the whole ten days. With the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular. Especially the delicate, colorful lights, more so during the Spring Festival entertainment activities ***. To the Qing Dynasty, and increased the dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilt walkers, twisting rice-planting songs and other "hundred plays" content, just shorten the festival period of four to five days.