In which dynasty did the Lantern Festival begin, and the origin of the Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is also known as the Lantern Festival, the custom of lighting the lantern festival originated in the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, the lantern appreciation activities were more prosperous, the palace and the streets were hung everywhere, and the tall lantern wheels, lantern towers and lantern trees were also established. ”

The Song Dynasty paid more attention to the Lantern Festival, and the lantern viewing activities were more lively, and the lantern viewing activities took 5 days, and the styles of the lanterns were also more abundant. In the Ming Dynasty, lanterns were enjoyed for 10 days in a row, which was the longest lantern festival in China. Although the lantern viewing activity in the Qing Dynasty is only 3 days, the lantern viewing activity is very large-scale, and the grand occasion is unprecedented.

"Guessing lantern riddles", also known as "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.

The folk custom of eating Lantern Festival during the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is made of glutinous rice, either solid or stuffed. The filling has bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, all kinds of fruits, etc., which can be boiled, fried, steamed and fried when eaten.

At first, people called this food "floating balls", and later called "soup balls" or "soup balls", these names "reunion" are similar in sound, take the meaning of reunion, symbolize the reunion of the whole family, harmony and happiness, people also miss the parting relatives, and place good wishes for the future life.

The Lantern Festival in some places also has the custom of "walking a hundred diseases", also known as "roasting a hundred diseases" and "scattering a hundred diseases", the participants are mostly women, they walk together or walk by the wall, or cross the bridge, go to the suburbs, the purpose is to drive away the disease and eliminate the disaster.

With the passage of time, there are more and more activities in the Lantern Festival, and many local festivals have added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion playing, stilt walking, rowing boats and twisting Yangge, and playing Taiping drums. This traditional festival, which has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, is not only popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also celebrated every year in the areas inhabited by overseas Chinese.

The origin of the Lantern Festival Bai Festival: The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, which existed in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago.

During the period of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming advocated Buddhism, and heard that Buddhism had the practice of monks viewing Buddha relics on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, lighting lamps and worshiping Buddha, so he ordered that night in the palace and temple to light lamps and worship Buddha, so that the common people of the scholar clan all hung lamps.

Later, this kind of Buddhist ritual festival gradually formed a folk grand festival. The festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, from the Central Plains to all parts of the country. Every year on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, just after the Spring Festival, it is ushered in the traditional Chinese festival - the Lantern Festival.

The first month of the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, and it is also the night of the rejuvenation of the earth, which is celebrated by people and the continuation of the celebration of the new year. The Lantern Festival is also known as the "Shangyuan Festival".

According to Chinese folk tradition, on this night when the moon is high in the sky, people light up 10,000 lanterns to celebrate. Go out to enjoy the moon, light lanterns, guess lantern riddles, eat Lantern Festival, reunite with the family, celebrate the festival together, and enjoy it.

It is said that a long time ago, there were many fierce birds and beasts here, harming people and animals everywhere. People organized to fight them. There is a version of a powerful bird that is trapped in this world and wants to get lost, but it is accidentally shot by an unknown hunter.

The emperor knew that he was very angry, and immediately ordered the heavenly soldiers to set fire to the world on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, burning all the people, animals and property. The emperor's daughter was kind-hearted and could not bear to see the innocent suffering of the people. Risking her life, she secretly drove Xiangyun around the world to tell people the news.

When people hear the news, it's like a thunderbolt in their heads. I was too scared to know what to do. Much later, an old man came up with a solution. He said, "The tenth day of the first month."

Four, ten. On May and 16, every household set off lights, firecrackers, and fireworks at home. In this way, the emperor would have thought that people had been burned to death.

Everyone nodded in agreement, and then they were ready to go their separate ways. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor looked down and found a red light and a loud bang in the world. It was the same for three nights in a row.

He thought it was a fire burning in the sky. As a result, people have saved their lives and property. To commemorate this success, every household hangs lanterns and sets off fireworks to commemorate the day.