1. Poems of the Lantern Festival

"Yuanxi" Song Ouyang Xiu

Last year, the flower market was full of lights. At the end of the month, it is about dusk. The lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of this year, the moonlight and the lights are still the same as last year. No longer saw last year's old friend, tears of tears were wet to the clothes.

Second, the story of the Lantern Festival

During the Yongping period of Emperor Han Ming (58-75 AD), because the Ming Emperor advocated Buddhism, it coincided with Cai Cheng's return from India to seek Buddhism, saying that on the fifteenth day of the first month in India, monks gathered to pay tribute to Buddhist relics, which was an auspicious day to participate in Buddhism. In order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Han Ming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in the palace and temple on the fifteenth night of the first month. Since then, the custom of putting lights on Lantern Festival has spread from being held only in the court to the people. That is, on the fifteenth day of the first month, no matter the gentry or the common people, lights are hung, and the city and countryside are brightly lit all night.

Third, the custom of Lantern Festival

Yuanxiao is eaten on the fifteenth day of the first month, and it has a long history as a food in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, or "dumpling", is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be both meat and vegetarian and has different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried and steamed, which means a happy reunion. Shaanxi dumplings are not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, hot and round.

Fourth, the history of the Lantern Festival

It is said that it was set by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to commemorate Pinglu. After the death of Liu Ying, Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty, Lv Hou usurped power, and the Lushi clan dominated the state affairs. After Lv Hou's death, zhou bo, Chen Ping and others eliminated Lv Hou's influence and established Liu Heng as the Chinese Emperor. Because the day to quell Zhu Lu was the fifteenth day of the first month, after that, every year on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, Emperor Wen of Han went out of the palace incognito to celebrate with the people, and designated the fifteenth day of the first month as the Lantern Festival.

V. Information on Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first lunar month is the traditional festival of the Han nationality in China. The first month is January, the ancients called the night "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as "Shangyuan Festival". According to the folk tradition in China, on the festival night in spring returns, the moon is high in the sky, and there are thousands of lanterns on the ground. People watch lanterns, have solve riddles on the lanterns and have Yuanxiao, and have a happy family reunion.

6. greetings for the Lantern Festival

1. The wind is drizzling, the snow is cold, the flowers are round and round, the lanterns are hanging all over the street, and the Lantern Festival sends homesickness, coming and going, wishing friends and relatives a "round" dream.

2. You are a fat vine, and my feet are shaking. We bought pork to worship the gods, and after eating pork, we changed our lives, so we said that we were reading short messages-I hope you enjoy it during the Lantern Festival, and enjoy your work!