In ancient times, Lantern Festival turned out to be Valentine's day, you know? Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, and also a poetic Festival. But in fact, it's invisible Valentine's Day! There are all kinds of lanterns in the Lantern Market on the 15th day of the first month. In the Tang Dynasty, there are music and dance performances. Thousands of palace girls and folk girls download songs and dances in the lights, which can be said to be a carnival in the whole city.
February 19 is the Lantern Festival. Zhang Hailan from the Folklore Research Institute of East China Normal University said that if you go back to the Tang Dynasty and ask a female favorite festival, it must be the Lantern Festival. During the Lantern Festival, the emperor granted a three-day ban, commonly known as "night". Women's Lantern night, which is rarely seen in public, can also walk out of the house like men's. Therefore, in ancient times, the Lantern Festival also carries the "Valentine's Day". For thousands of years, there are countless love stories staged on the Lantern Festival.
The shadow of Valentine's date on Lantern Festival can be discerned vaguely from literary works. Xin Qiji, an unrestrained poet of "light the sword in drunkenness", could not get around the gentle Shangyuan Festival. His "the case of Sapphire & middot; new year's Eve", especially the last sentence, has become a classic cited by various fields.
East wind night flowers thousands of trees, but also blow down, the stars like rain. BMW carvings are full of fragrance. The sound of the Phoenix and the flute moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and the fish and the dragon dance all night. Moth son snow willow golden thread, smile Ying Ying Ying Xiang to go. Looking for him in the crowd, suddenly looking back, the man was in the dim light.
In the movie and TV series, Taiping, the girl in Daming Palace Ci, unveils the mask of her sweetheart Xue Shao at the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival. Xu Changqing and Zixuan's love for the third life in the story of the swordsman and Zixuan originates from the love at first sight of the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival. In ancient China, free love was not celebrated. Because of the time and the place, the Lantern Festival became the crownless Valentine's day.
There are also 99% people do not know the Lantern Festival Customs!
One of the customs of Lantern Festival
What's the meaning of "walking all diseases"? To put it bluntly, it is a northern custom since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some of which are carried out on the 15th day of the first month and some on the 16th day of the first month. Every time they arrive at "walking for all diseases", women will wear festival costumes and walk out of their homes in groups. Then, they will cross the bridge to cross the danger, climb to the city, and seek children until midnight.
Of course, this sport is also mostly carried out among women, the elderly, children or the sick. At first, it was only limited to women, because in the old times, women were relatively tired, weak and prone to illness because they were more involved in housework and raising children. However, walking all kinds of diseases could achieve the goal of eliminating pathogenic factors.
One of the customs of Lantern Festival is to 'turn on the light' for children
According to relevant records, in the early years of Zhenguan, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, decreed to collect maps and books nationwide to encourage reading. The first step for children to enter school is to turn on the lights, that is, to bring the lanterns made in advance to the school and ask the learned old man to light them up, which means a bright future.