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From the "Winter Festival" on 1 1 month to the "Lantern Festival" on the fifteenth day of the first month, the two months at the end of this year belong to the process of "New Year" and "Spring Festival". After the fifteenth day of the first month, it passed.

The fifteenth day of the first month is a day of celebration, but it has an extraordinary history. It turns out that the origin of this festival is related to the fight against "Lv Zhi Rebellion" in the early Han Dynasty.

Lv Hou, the queen of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, was a vicious and lewd woman among the nobles of the imperial dynasty at that time. When Emperor Gaozu died, he killed all the heroes who fought side by side with Gaozu in the past, and also used his consorts, brothers, sons and nephews to usurp power. Shortly after Lv Hou came to the imperial court, Zhu Lu was finally wiped out by Liu's old minister. Emperor Wen of Han acceded to the throne, feeling that it was extremely rare for the world to enjoy peace again, so he found a good day to have fun with the people at the beginning of the year. I heard that the "Zhu Lu Rebellion" started on the 15th day of the first month, which happened to be sunny, so I decided to visit the Palace on the 15th day of the first month every year, so I named it "Lantern Festival". From generation to generation, the fifteenth day of the first month of each year has become a popular folk festival.

Yuanxiao is the first full moon day in a year, also known as "Yuanxiao" and "Yuanxiao". The program of this day is mainly lanterns, so it is also called "Lantern Festival". There is also a name called "Shangyuan Festival", which is based on the Taoist saying that "Tianguan goes to Shangyuan in the current season".

The so-called "three officials" in Taoism are the three gods in charge of human destiny. Each of them has his own rotation date. The celestial official is the "Shangyuan Festival", the local official is the "Zhongyuan Festival" and the official is the "Xiayuan Festival", in which the celestial official is the head, so people attach great importance to this day of "God bless the people".

Shangyuan, also known as Lantern Festival. It is said that it originated in the Han Dynasty, because there is a custom of watching lanterns in January.

It turned out that on this day, the Han Dynasty completely held the ceremony of Taiyi God (Polaris), decorated with lights and stayed up all night. Another point is related to Emperor Taizong and the lamp for entering a higher school. Legend has it that Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, encouraged reading, and all the people sent their children to school. The first program called "Turn on the light" is to make the first exquisite lantern, take it to school, and ask a learned old gentleman to light it for him, which symbolizes a bright future. In the past, most private schools started school on the fifteenth day of the first month, so the lanterns that started school became decorations for the Lantern Festival.

There is another explanation: Taoism believes in the "three official gods". It is said that all the "three official gods" have their own birthdays: "Tianguan" was born on the 15th of the first month, "Diguan" was born on the 15th of July, and "Shuiguan" was born on the 15th of October. It is said that the "three official gods" can play the role of "God bless the people", "local officials forgive sins" and "water officials relieve Eritrea". Influenced by Taoism, people in ancient China called the 15th day of the first month "Shangyuan Festival" (this night is also called Yuanxiao), the 15th day of July "Zhongyuan Festival" and the 15th day of October "Xiayuan Festival", which formed the folk custom of "Lantern Festival". At first, on the fifteenth day of the first month, thousands of families and Taoist priests gathered to celebrate the birthday of "God of Heaven", praying for "God bless the people" and wishing a bumper harvest and happiness in the new year. In the Tang dynasty, with the development of society and the gradual improvement of people's lives, this custom has developed to three lanterns around the fifteenth day of the first month.

The Lantern Festival in the Tang and Song Dynasties was the most lively, with lanterns and colorful decorations everywhere. Ladies and girls played all night, and the city was open all night. There is a poem in the Tang Dynasty:

The wahoo is beautiful, and the star bridge is locked.

This is to describe the grand occasion of the Lantern Festival.

Dragon Lantern and the Origin of Spring Festival

There are many kinds of lanterns in the Lantern Festival, including flowers, insects, birds and animals, but the most prominent and huge one is the "dragon lantern".

There is a scene of "making dragon lanterns" in this popular New Year. Making a dragon lantern is a "dragon lantern". Because the dragon lantern is huge and heavy, it is not dozens of strong men who hold their heads high and drag their tails in the sound of gongs and drums, and it is not enough to control it. "Jian" is a swing, which is interpreted as a verb, that is, "dragon dance".

The "dragon" for dragon dancing is usually placed in the local Longwang Temple. On the day of dragon dance, the dragon body was invited out of the temple with flags, gongs and drums and horns as the leading factor, and the dragon tail was connected to hold a closing ceremony. The dragon body is tied into a dragon shape with bamboo, one by one. Covered with a huge red cloth painted by Longlin. Every five or six feet, one person holds the pole, and the head and tail are separated by about ten feet. In front of the dragon, one person holds the pole, and a huge ball is erected at the top of the pole as a guide. When dancing, the giant ball swings back and forth, and the faucet catches the ball, making the dragon body swim and fly.

Dragon dance is a grand festival. No matter where you dance, you will get entertainment. Sometimes the Dragon Dance Team can have five or six banquets a day, which is called "Dragon for Wine".

After the dragon dance, both ends will be burned and the dragon body will be sent back to the temple for use next year.

Although the Lantern Festival began in the early Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the custom of "dragon dancing" is considered to be the legacy of "offering sacrifices to heaven" in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties.

Dragons have appeared in historical documents for a long time. "Dragon dancing" includes "good weather, peaceful country and people", which means "praying for the New Year".

The wisdom of ancient people can't be opened, probably because the dragon is the master of the ocean in myth, with infinite power. The ocean dominates the water, and the dragon naturally becomes the rain god of crops. Food is the most important thing for people, and food is the basis of maintaining life, which indirectly controls people's lives. According to this meaning, the importance of dragons is beyond ancestors-Emperor Shun, Qi and Hou Ji. In this way, it is not surprising that dragons were regarded as "auspicious things" by the ancients and appeared in celebrations and sacrifices.

"Wang Lizhi" said: "Sacrificing the ancestral temple is called the key in spring, the week in summer, the taste in autumn and the roast in winter."

It can be seen that "turning on the light" in the Spring Festival means "Spring Festival". Therefore, "dragon dance" should be a kind of sacrifice at first, not entertainment, and it should become entertainment after the Han and Tang Dynasties. There is a legend here, which also shows that dragon dancing is purely a memorial and contains sacrificial elements-

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a lotus village on the bank of Tiaoxi River. There is a lotus pond in front of the village, which is full of lotus flowers. Every summer, the green lotus leaves are covered with water, and countless lotus flowers come out of the water, which is graceful.

There lived a hardworking and kind young couple by the lotus pond. The man's name is Bai Ye and the woman's name is Lotus. The husband and wife farm and weave, and respect and love each other. This year, Lotus was pregnant, and ten months later, the child was not born. Another year has passed and there is still no birth. Until the 999th day, a boy was born. Bai Ye saw that the child was healthy and strong, and he liked him very much. Looking closely, I was shocked: a thin dragon forest grew on the child's chest and back, glittering and translucent. Count it, there are 999 pieces. The midwife next to her was startled and shouted, "Oh, great, you have a dragon god at home!" " "

The news spread all over the village, and everyone came to congratulate. The news alarmed the old clan leaders in the village. His son is an official in the imperial court, leaving an ugly grandson around him. As soon as the grandparents heard that Bai Ye's family had given birth to a dragon seed, they immediately came to cut the dragon seed with a steel knife. When the villagers got the news, they immediately reported it to Bai Ye. After careful discussion, they came up with a way: put the child in the footbath and hide it quietly in the lotus pond in front of the door.

The old patriarch and grandson rushed in with people, and the child disappeared. Seeing that the dragon seed could not be found, the patriarch grabbed the shutter and forced him to hand it over. Grandson saw the beautiful lotus, so he had a plan. He raised a steel knife to kill the louver and robbed the lotus at home. The old patriarch thought: Dragon species will starve to death even if they are alive without parents. Besides, the lotus will bear dragon seeds, and the dragon seeds will be born in their own homes in the future, and the world will be mine.

Lotus was robbed to the old clan leader's house, and her husband and children were gone, which was very sad. The patriarch forced her to wash rice. Lotus dragged Tao Tao to the pool and gently stirred the water. Suddenly, a cool breeze blew. Deep in the lotus pond, the flowers and leaves fall to both sides, giving way to a waterway. I saw my son sitting in the footbath and floating towards her. Surprised and delighted, Lotus quickly took her son to her arms, fed him, and put him back in the footbath. A cool breeze brought the footbath back to the lotus. Lotus is glad to know that her son didn't starve to death.

Since then, she washed rice in the pool three times a day and fed her son three times. After feeding for 999 days, my son grew up and was covered with golden light shining from Longlin. At night, the lotus pond is brightly lit. People in the village are secretly happy to know that the dragon species have not been destroyed. The old clan leader learned that the dragon seed was actually in the lotus pond and he was poisoned again.

One evening, the lotus went to the pool to wash rice, and the grandparents and grandchildren hid under the poplar trees to observe the movement. They saw blue waves, floating flowers and leaves, and a cool breeze blowing gently. A footbath floated slowly from the depths of the lotus pond, and a child covered in gold sat in the basin, with his hands facing the cheerful lotus flower. Lotus was full of joy and was about to reach out and hug when a man came out from under the poplar tree, raised a bright steel knife and cut it straight at the child. In a flash, I saw the child suddenly jump up from the footbath, turn into a golden dragon and jump into the pool. But it was too late, and the knife cut the tail of Xiaolong. A beautiful butterfly stopped between the lotus flowers suddenly flew past, attached its body to the tail of the little dragon, and became the tail of the little dragon with a pair of beautiful wings.

The little dragon sang a long song. In an instant, the wind was blowing hard, the dark clouds were rolling and the lotus petals were flying in the pool. In the thunderbolt, the little dragon's body gradually became bigger, and it became a dragon dozens of feet long, tumbling and leaping over the lotus pond. At this time, a tornado rolled over, and the little dragon took off, riding the wind straight into the sky and flying into the clouds. The tornado was so fierce that the person who cut off the dragon's tail was swept into the air and thrown away without a trace. When the patriarch saw his grandson being swept away by the wind, he plunged into the lotus pond and drowned.

Lotus saw her son turn into a dragon and fly into the sky, shouting loudly, but the dragon had already flown without a trace.

From then on, whenever there was a drought on both sides of Tiaoxi River, Xiaolong came to scatter clouds and rain.

To thank it, the local people picked 749 lotus flowers from this pond and made a dragon with 999 petals. Because it is smaller than a piece of Chiba, it is named Baiyelong.

Every Spring Festival, people beat gongs, drums and dragons.

A riddle story

Speaking of lanterns, we can't help but say "riddles". There's a joke about riddles-

There is a rich man named Hu, who is very rich and bullying in the countryside. He is a smiling tiger. As long as a smiling tiger sees people who are better dressed than himself, he tries his best to curry favor with them and doesn't look at those poor people who are in rags at all.

As the Spring Festival approached that year, two people came to Hu's door in tandem. The man in front is called Cai Li, and the man behind is called Wang Shao. Cai Li was neatly dressed, while Wang Shao was in rags. When the man saw Cai Li, he hurried back to go, only to see a smiling tiger meet him, grinning and making way respectfully. Cai Li said that he wanted to "borrow twelve taels of silver", and the smiling tiger quickly took twelve taels of silver and left. Before the smiling tiger turned around, Wang Shao came forward and shouted, "Sir, I want to borrow some food."

A smiling tiger glanced at him and scolded, "Boy, what are you doing borrowing food for?" Go! "

On his way home, Wang Shao became more and more angry, and suddenly he had a plan.

The Lantern Festival is coming, and every household is busy making lanterns. Wang Shao has also been busy all day. On the night of the Lantern Festival, all kinds of lanterns are hung in front of every street house, and Wang Shao also takes lanterns to the streets. The lantern is big and bright, and there is a poem on it that stands out.

Wang Shao came to the smiling tiger and held the lantern high, which attracted many people to watch. A smiling tiger is looking at lanterns. Seeing this scene, he also squeezed into the lantern and saw four poems inscribed on it. He couldn't understand anything, so he asked the accountant behind him to read it to him. Mr. Accountant took a look and read aloud a way:

The top of the head is as white as silver, and there is no half point in theory.

Eyes up to the bottom, only clothes, not people.

Hearing this, the smiling tiger turned red with anger and his eyes widened. He shouted, "Good boy, how dare you scold your master!" "

I ordered the servant to get the lantern. Wang Shao quickly raised the lamp and replied with a smile: "Sir, how can I see that I am scolding you?"

A smiling tiger said angrily, "What's written on your lamp?"

Wang Shaolang read it out loud.

A smiling tiger said bitterly, "Isn't that scolding me?"

Wang Shao laughed out loud: "Sir, you are so thoughtful! These four poems are a mystery, and the answer is' needle'. Think about it, don't you? "

Zheng, a smiling tiger, was so angry that he had nothing to say. He turned around and left awkwardly. People around them knew that Wang Shao pointed to the monk and said that the thief was bald. They smiled happily.

The story spread more and more widely.

In the second year of Lantern Festival, many people write riddles on lanterns for the audience to guess for fun.

In fact, riddles are by-products of lanterns, which are used to add festive atmosphere.

Lantern riddle is a unique word game in China, which originated from ancient argot. It temporarily hides the true image of a thing or sentence, forming a beautiful rhyming poem or a popular text with a certain characteristic or background related to it, which puzzles others with suspense.

After the Six Dynasties, until the Tang Dynasty, there were many literati who were addicted to mystery. Riddles hanging on lanterns are difficult to ask people, which began in the Southern Song Dynasty. "Old Wulin Stories" once mentioned that it is forbidden to stay up late in the city during the Lantern Festival, and the congregation wrote riddles on lanterns, reflected them with candles, hung up the thoroughfare, and was guessed right. At that time, it was called "lantern riddle", which belonged to an elegant education and entertainment. Later, it continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, lantern riddles gradually declined, and the literary value gradually disappeared, becoming vulgar riddles.

Lantern riddles were originally the product of agricultural society in the era of Shengping. With the progress of the times, the pace of life is getting faster and faster, and literati have little leisure. The decline of riddles is natural.