Song Dynasty What was the earliest name of the Lantern Festival, and how did the Song Dynasty celebr

The Lantern Festival of the Song Dynasty is called the Lantern Festival.

The Han Dynasty began, albeit controversially.

During the Yongping period of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty (58-75 AD), because Emperor Ming advocated Buddhism, it coincided with Cai Su's return from India to seek Buddhism, saying that the Indian Maha Buddha country was on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the monks gathered to pay homage to the Buddha's relics, which was an auspicious day for the Buddha. In order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth night of the first lunar month to "burn lamps to show the Buddha" in the palace and temple. Therefore, the custom of lighting lamps on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month gradually expanded in China with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and the addition of Taoist culture.

The real impetus for the Lantern Festival is that it is at a new point in time, and people make full use of this special time stage to express their wishes in life.

The custom of putting lanterns on the Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty, and after the Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685-762 AD) was in the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the scale of the lamp market in Chang'an was very large, 50,000 lamps were burned, the lanterns were varied, the emperor ordered people to make a huge lantern tower, 20 rooms wide, 150 feet high, the golden light was brilliant, and it was extremely magnificent.

In the future, the Lantern Festival will continue to develop, and the Lantern Festival will become longer and longer. In the Tang Dynasty, the lantern festival was "one day before and after the Shangyuan Dynasty", the Song Dynasty added two days after the sixteenth, and the Ming Dynasty extended it to ten days from the eighth to the eighteenth day of the first month.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus entered the Central Plains, and the court no longer held lantern festivals, but the folk lantern festivals were still spectacular. The date was shortened to five days, which continues to this day.

"Guessing lantern riddles" is also called "playing lantern riddles" is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, which appeared in the Song Dynasty. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital Lin'an was fascinated during the Lantern Festival, and there were many people guessing riddles. In the beginning, it was the good deeds who wrote riddles on slips of paper and pasted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess.

Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and are very interesting, they are popular with all walks of life in the process of circulation.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, various juggling skills began to appear in the lamp market. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to lantern riddles and hundred opera songs and dances, the lantern market also added the content of opera performances.

In addition to visiting the lantern market, people in the past dynasties also had the customs of welcoming Zigu to worship the toilet god, crossing the bridge and touching the nails to walk away all kinds of diseases, and there were games such as beating the Taiping drum, Yangge, stilts, dragon dance, lion dance and so on. At the same time, it is necessary to eat some seasonal food: the Lantern Festival in the Northern and Southern Dynasties era eats soybean porridge or rice porridge boiled with meat and animal oil, the Tang Dynasty eats a kind of pasta called "noodle cocoon" and Jiaojiao chasing (that is, scones), to the Song Dynasty, there is a salt soy soup printed with mung bean flour made of Kedou soup, and there is a "round seed", after the Lantern Festival in the north and south are used to eat Lantern Festival.

During the Lantern Festival, it is a time for young men and women to meet their lovers, so the Lantern Festival has become China's "Valentine's Day".

The Lantern Festival in the traditional society is a folk festival that is valued in urban and rural areas, and the noise of the Lantern Festival in the city is particularly enthusiastic, which reflects the unique carnival spirit of the Chinese people. The festival function carried by the traditional Lantern Festival has been dissolved by daily life, and people have gradually lost their common spiritual interest, and the complex festival customs have been simplified to the food custom of "eating Lantern Festival".

The Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty is actually more like our current Valentine's Day.

At that time, the Lantern Festival was a good time to fall in love, and every time it was the Lantern Festival, the girls would always run out to watch the lantern festival, and they would dress themselves up beautifully, maybe they would meet their beloved. In the Song Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was really a good day for boys and girls to date. In fact, this is similar to our grand blind date, but it makes more sense to say that we will do such things on specific festivals.

Friends who have watched the Water Margin don't know if they still remember, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there are fires in the streets and alleys, and lanterns are lit everywhere, which is very lively. And on this day, whether it is a big or small hero, a leaky plum or a village woman, they will be very happy to go to the street for a stroll, this festival celebrated with the sky, maybe you can meet the object.

During the Lantern Festival, he will also set off fireworks when he returns. The fireworks of the Song Dynasty are very beautiful, its momentum is completely blocked by us now, there are poems describing it that illuminates the whole night, and you can see the grandeur of the fireworks.

In ancient times, the Lantern Festival was called the Shangyuan Festival.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year, the New Year's Eve or the Lantern Festival, is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.

The first month of the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the "night" as the "night", and the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so the tenth day of the first month is called the "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "three yuan", the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the customs of the Lantern Festival have been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing customs.

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on the lantern and praying for rent to imitate blessings. According to general information and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been valued in the Western Han Dynasty, but the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is really a national folk festival after the Han and Wei dynasties.

The rise of the custom of lighting lamps on the fifteenth day of the first month is also related to the eastward spread of Buddhism, Buddhism flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and the officials and ordinary people generally "lit the lamp for the Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the Buddhist lamps were all over the people, and since the Tang Dynasty, the lantern festival lantern has become a legal thing. [3-4]

The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, eating Lantern Festival, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walking, rowing boats, twisting Yangge, and playing Taiping drums.

In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Originating in the Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival is an ancient festival full of traditional cultural heritage.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the court maids decided to hold a grand banquet to celebrate the accession of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the night of the feast coincided with the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar. As a result, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty announced that the celebration of the enthronement was the "Lantern Festival".

The Lantern Festival ceremony was also started in the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the maids in the palace moved the grand occasion of the enthronement ceremony to the outdoors to celebrate the accession of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and set up a lantern festival to celebrate his accession to the throne, and hung lanterns on the bridge and the river to celebrate his accession, which is the origin of the Lantern Festival lantern festival activities.

Since the Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival has existed for thousands of years, and it is one of the most important traditional festivals in China and an ancient part of Chinese culture. The significance of the Lantern Festival is to promote patriotism and the spirit of pursuing harmony, and it will forever leave Zheng Zhi in the Chinese civilization to talk about and shine.

The Song Dynasty copied the fifteenth day of the first month to eat the Lantern Festival, "Lantern Festival" as.

Bai food has also been used by DU for a long time in our country. In the Song Dynasty, the folk were a kind of novelty food that was eaten during the Lantern Festival. This kind of food was first called "Fu Yuanzi" and later called "Lantern Festival", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao".

Lantern Festival, that is"Glutinous rice balls"Filled with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc., wrapped into a circle with glutinous rice flour, meat or vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be boiled, fried, and steamed, which has the meaning of reunion.