The legend of the Lantern Festival Goth, the legend of the Lantern Festival

One: When Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Mo Tengzhu came to preach in the east, and Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty decreed that the Buddha would light the lamp on the fifteenth day of the first month, and personally went to the temple to put up the lamp to show the Buddha. Since then, the Lantern Festival lantern has become a trend.

However, some scholars believe that this view is untenable, arguing that Buddhism simply uses the festive atmosphere of the people on this day to expand its influence.

Two: It is said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had been ill for a long time, and he miraculously asked for help from Taiyi God, so he began to build the Taiyi Ancestral Altar to worship, and every fifteenth day of the first lunar month was up all night to sacrifice with a grand lamp. On the night of the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first lunar month, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came to Ganquan Palace to preside over the activities of worshipping the god Taiyi.

Later generations of this event were regarded as the precursor to the sacrifice to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Legend has it that the Jade Emperor raised a goose, and it was killed by humans when it went down to play as a child. The Jade Emperor was so angry that he decided to set fire to humans on the day of the Lantern Festival. The smart people knew about it, so they hung up the lanterns on the day of the Lantern Festival and deceived the generals who set the fire back.

Therefore, the Lantern Festival has become a custom for people.

The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a traditional festival in China, also known as the "Lantern Festival", as early as 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, there is a saying that the Lantern Festival originated in ancient times for the ritual of seeking fish for spring sowing, and the other is that during the Ming Emperor period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Ming Emperor advocated Buddhism, and on the fifteenth day of the first month, the monks watched the Buddha relics, lit the lamp and worshiped the Buddha, and this Buddhist ritual festival gradually formed the folk Lantern Festival.

During the Lantern Festival, people's customs are usually to hang lanterns, set off firecrackers, fireworks, and eat rice balls. In Fujian and other regions, the number of lanterns is usually determined by the number of families, so in the past, people hung as many lanterns as possible, meaning that there were many children and grandchildren.

The folk activities of the Lantern Festival are also diverse, including stepping on stilts, playing waist drums, dancing donkeys, dancing lions, guessing lantern riddles, etc. Among them, the lion dance and lantern riddle guessing are the most important and interesting. The lion dance requires 2 people, one with a lion head and one lion tail, and one person wearing a mask to play a woman or a fat doll.

Lions jumped or jumped, rolled and bowed to congratulate people on the New Year. Guessing lantern riddles is to paste riddles on lanterns for visitors to guess, and those who guess correctly can win prizes on the spot.

1. The legend of the Lantern Festival:

It is said that a long time ago, a mythical bird landed on the ground because it got lost, but was accidentally shot by an unknown hunter. The emperor knew that he was angry, so he ordered the heavenly soldiers to set fire to the ground on the fifteenth day of the first month and burn everyone to death.

The emperor's daughter was kind-hearted and could not bear the innocent suffering of the people, so she risked her life and told the people the news. When people hear the news, it's like a thunderbolt in their heads. I don't know what to do.

It took an old man a long time to figure it out. He said, "The tenth day of the first month."

Four, ten. On May and 16, every household hung red lanterns, set off firecrackers, and set off fireworks. 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 heavenly soldiers looked down and found a red light in the world. He thought it was fire, so he told heaven and earth not to go down to earth and set fire.

In this way, people save their lives and property. To commemorate this success, every household has been commemorating the day with lanterns and fireworks ever since.

The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, also known as the Shangyuan Festival (Shangyuan means the first full moon night of the year), the Yuan Xi Festival, and the Lantern Festival, is the first major festival after the Spring Festival. The children took all kinds of lanterns and their families to walk a hundred steps on the street, and people they knew and didn't know came together to guess the lantern riddles, watch the lanterns, and enjoy the moon sceneryIn some places, there are also performances such as lion dance, stilt walking, and Yangge twisting, and there is a joyful scene everywhere.

In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage, and was permanently preserved as an important folk festival.

Source Evolution. The Lantern Festival has a long history and has been valued by people in the Western Han Dynasty. More than 2,000 years ago, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty decreed that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month should be designated as the Lantern Festival.

In the mythological system of the pre-Qin period, Taiyi God was the supreme god of the time, and some people called him the sun god. With the unification of the whole country by the Qin Dynasty, the Taiyi God began to transform from the supreme god of a certain region to the belief of the whole people, and its influence and scope increased significantly. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the status of Taiyi God continued to improve, and he changed from the Eastern Emperor to the Main Emperor, which is also believed to be the origin of all things.

In ancient China, under the influence of the idea that "the Son of Heaven" is "the divine right of the emperor", to the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the state ritual of sacrificing to the gods of heaven has been further developed and perfected, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to hold an activity to worship "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace.

The custom of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "Sanyuan Theory": Shangyuan, which contains the meaning of the first full moon night of the new year. The origin of the Shangyuan Festival, "Miscellaneous Records of the Year", records that this is according to the Taoist stereotype.

Taoism once called the fifteenth day of the first month of the year the Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July as the Middle Yuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October as the Xiayuan Festival, collectively known as the "Three Yuan".

At the end of the Han Dynasty, an important sect of Taoism, Wudou Midao, worshiped the gods of the heavenly officials, the earth officials, and the water officials, saying that the heavenly officials blessed, the local officials forgave their sins, and the water officials relieved their misfortunes, and matched the three officials with three yuan, saying that the Shangyuan Tianguan was born on the 15th day of the first month, the Zhongyuan Diguan was born on the 15th day of July, and the lower Yuan Shuiguan was born on the 15th of October.

In this way, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Shangyuan Festival. Wu Zimu of the Southern Song Dynasty said in "Dream Lianglu": "The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the day of blessing from the heavenly officials of the Shangyuan Dynasty. "Therefore, the lantern should be lit on the Shangyuan Festival.

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China since ancient times, and the Lantern Festival began in ancient times when people held torches in the countryside to drive away insects and beasts, hoping to reduce insect infestation and pray for a good harvest. To this day, people in some parts of southwest China still make torches out of reeds or tree branches on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and dance in groups holding torches high in the fields or in the barnyards.

There is a saying among the people that "open the door and firecrackers". That is, when the new year arrives, the first thing every household does when they open the door is to set off firecrackers to remove the old and welcome the new with the sound of beeping firecrackers. Firecrackers are Chinese specialties, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers", and "firecrackers".

Now we generally think that setting off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, is a kind of entertainment for the festival, and it can bring joy and good luck to people. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers has become more and more extensive, and the varieties and colors have become more and more diverse. Liuyang in Hunan, Foshan and Dongyao in Guangdong, Yichun and Pingxiang in Jiangxi and Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province are the famous "hometown of firecrackers" in China, and the firecrackers produced by them not only sell well all over the country, but also are exported to other countries and regions in the world.

In addition to setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, people also set off firecrackers to celebrate major festivals and celebrations, such as the Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, weddings, house construction, and business openings.

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It is said that the New Year's money can suppress the evil spirits, because "year" and "Zhen" are homophonic, and the younger generations can spend a year peacefully when they get the New Year's money. There are two kinds of New Year's money, one is to thread a colored rope into the shape of a dragon and place it at the foot of the bed, which is recorded in the "Yanjing Chronicles"; The other is the most common, which is the money distributed to the child by the parents in red paper. New Year's money can be given in public after the New Year's greeting, or it can be placed under the child's pillow by the parent when the child is asleep on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Nowadays, the custom of the elders to give the New Year's money to the younger generation is still prevalent, and the amount of the New Year's money varies, and these New Year's money is mostly used by children to buy books and school supplies, and the new fashion gives new content to the New Year's money.

say: The happiest thing about the Spring Festival is to collect the New Year's money! Folklore has it that children can use New Year's money to resist the harm of the "New Year Beast". Huh

Festive Atmosphere Index:

Spring Festival dragon dance. Playing dragon lanterns is also called "dragon dance" and "dragon lantern dance", which is a unique folk entertainment activity in China. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, there is a custom of playing dragon lanterns in the vast areas of urban and rural areas in China. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, playing dragon lanterns has become a kind of folk dance with lively form, beautiful performance and romantic color.

The dragon lantern originated from people's superstition about dragons and has a history of more than 2,000 years.

In ancient times, there was a monster called "Nian", which resembled a dog, and came out to cause chaos every Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar. A lot of people are affected by it, and people are very scared at this time of year! However, with the passage of time, people later found out that they were afraid of the sound of firecrackers, so whenever it was about to come out, people set off firecrackers to scare it, telling it not to dare to go down the mountain to harm people.

So, people can spend this time safely. And from this reason, this period of time is called "New Year".