The origin of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival in China. Lantern Festival is a very happy day, and it is also an indispensable tradition for people to celebrate festivals. Let's share the origin and related information of Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.
The origin of Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is 1. The custom of watching lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month came from the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who asked the whole country to light lamps to worship Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Lighting on the fifteenth day of the first month originated in the Han Dynasty, when it was not the Lantern Festival. Because Emperor Wen of Han believed in Buddhism, Buddhist believers lit stupas to worship Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month. As a Buddhist believer, Emperor Wen of Han ordered that on the fifteenth day of the first month, people all over the country should light lamps to worship Buddha.
This practice continued until the whole period when Emperor Wen was in power, and later generations also developed this habit. Later, the fifteenth day of the first month was officially designated as the Lantern Festival, and the habit of enjoying lanterns gradually evolved into a custom.
Lighting can add festive atmosphere, because it can light up the night and bring people a sense of security, so the ancients also lit lamps to pray for peace.
The working people in ancient China were very particular about making lanterns, and created various styles, including palace lanterns, animal lanterns, lanterns, lanterns and bird lanterns.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the country was rich and the people's living conditions were good. Lantern Festival is a grand entertainment, which can last for more than ten days. In Song Dynasty, besides lanterns, there were fireworks, riddles and other activities.
Lantern art is one of our traditional cultures, which has been passed down from generation to generation.
The origin of the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual lantern fireworks. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called "Lantern Festival". In Shanxi's county-level city walls and even towns and villages, these residents are concentrated in busy and lively areas. Before the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets were covered with lanterns, flowers were everywhere and lights were swaying, which reached its climax on the fifteenth night of the first month.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, "watching lanterns" has become a spontaneous activity among Shanxi people. On the fifteenth night of the first month, the streets are decorated with lanterns, palace lanterns, animal lanterns, lanterns, lanterns and bird lanterns, which attract people to watch lanterns. In Taiyuan area, the lights in Taigu County are very famous. Taikoo lamp is famous for its variety, exquisite production and beautiful appearance.
Lantern Festival began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in eastern China. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. It is said that on the fifteenth day of the first month, the monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship Buddha, so they ordered to light lamps to worship Buddha in palaces and temples that night, so that all the gentry and the people could hang lights. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival.
There are many kinds of Lantern Festival lanterns, or lanterns modeled after things, such as dragon lanterns, tiger lanterns and rabbit lanterns. Or lanterns made according to folk stories, such as Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Twenty-four Filial Pieties, etc. Various lanterns are skillfully made, which shows the wisdom and skill of craftsmen.
Lantern Festival is a traditional custom of our people. Throughout the ages, there are not only a large number of popular Yuanxiao poems, but also countless interesting Yuanxiao couplets.
There were lantern riddles in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was called argot at that time, and it began to be called "riddle" during the Han and Wei Dynasties. In the Southern Song Dynasty, riddles were written on lanterns. On the Shangyuan Festival, people solved riddles on lanterns. After the Southern Song Dynasty, lanterns and riddles on lanterns made the atmosphere of Lantern Festival lively and warm. Because riddles are difficult to guess, just as tigers are difficult to be shot, they are also called "Lantern Tigers" (also called Hu Wen). The production of traditional riddles emphasizes a certain format and requires ingenious thinking to produce very wonderful riddles, which is China's original literature and art.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, the origin of lanterns 3 "play pig grass every day and play lanterns every night". "East is also a light, west is also a light, south is also a light, and north is also a light." This is the lyrics of the traditional Huangmei opera "Couples Watching Lights". Several western tourists, nicknamed "Huang Er", who took part in the tourism activity of "Visiting Huangshan Mountain and Seeing Huangmei", decided to come to "China Lantern Festival" again just to marvel that "the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month in China is more lively than our carnival"! So my interest doubled and I searched for Yuanxiao.
Although the origin of Lantern Festival can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty, the most popular time is the Tang Dynasty. According to the records in Taiping Yulan, "On the 15th day of the first month, the Han family worships Taiyi, from dusk to dawn", the Lantern Festival is a festival evolved from the religious ceremony of the ancient emperor "burning lamps to worship the Taoist Taiyi God on the 15th day of the first month", which is the product of the combination of Buddhist customs and Taoist traditions. This is Liu Heng, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, who officially named it and ordered the whole country to celebrate it every year. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Lantern Festival was listed as a major national festival and passed down from generation to generation.
Lantern Festival lanterns have strong local characteristics, and there are "fist products" everywhere, such as: Beijing Palace Lantern, Shanghai Dragon Lantern, Guangdong Lantern, Zhejiang Shi Xia Lantern, Harbin Ice Lantern, Sichuan Zigong Lantern, etc., which are well known from ancient times to modern times. Lantern styles are colorful, such as: lanterns, animal lights, people lights, building lights, landscape lights, tower lights, palace lights, dragon lights and so on. Most lanterns are made of bamboo, painted with colored paper and painted by hand, and candles are lit inside as light sources. In recent years, with the development of science and technology and the enhancement of people's self-entertainment consciousness, new varieties of modern colored lights are increasing, including reinforced iron frames, micro-motors, micro-computers and new electro-acoustic light sources. For example, the dinosaur lights that can wave to the audience in several languages, and the rocket lights that can show the whole process of rocket launch, flight and recovery, give the Lantern Festival lanterns strong characteristics of the times. Today's Lantern Festival is not only a concentrated display of the skills and wisdom of folk lantern artists in color binding, pasting, paper-cutting, weaving, embroidery and carving, but also a reflection of the light of modern science and technology on the Lantern Festival.
"The ground lotus in the city that never sleeps, Xiaomei comes out at the beginning of the waning moon, the first good season of the new year, who wants to sleep like a man?" On the fifteenth day of the first month, colorful lanterns are called beautiful scenery because they mean "bright" and have a "festive" atmosphere. Men, women and children will wander around the lantern market in droves and appreciate the festive atmosphere of "the balcony is on fire and people from cars to horses are watching people". There are riddles for you to guess, and watching the tiger under the lamp increases the interest; There are dragon lanterns dancing around, and spring sprouts in the roar; There is a light show for you to vote and show your love in the selection; There are dumplings for you to have a full meal, and the game can laugh heartily ... It is exactly: "On the fifteenth day of the first month, the lights are brightly lit, and the streets are broken and people die at night."
Such beautiful scenery will surely make the poems of ancient and modern literati flourish. A brief look at the history of poetry reveals that many well-known sayings are actually the products of the Lantern Festival, such as "A thousand trees bloom in the easterly night", "A thousand people look for her, suddenly looking back, and people are there, and the lights are dim", "A precious moment, a thousand dollars can't buy a good night" and "When the moon arrives at the willow tip". In terms of innovation, I think this song "Zhang Deng Qu" by the Qing Dynasty Mountain should be the best: Climbing laurel trees to see the world, spring lanterns are like the sea. There are so many fragrant figures and cars running like water, Youlong. A hundred plays are changing, and thousands of pavilions are exquisite. "The genius of the poet is that he showed the world such a feeling-to describe and describe the grand occasion of China lanterns on the 15th day of the first month, you have to go to the moon and look down. In this way, those foreign tourists who compare the China Lantern Festival to the western carnival are really a little "outsider". Now, the Lantern Festival has been listed in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in China, which is really more worthy of carnival.