"Looking back suddenly, the lights were dimmed" How did Li Qingzhao and Xin Qiji celebrate the most important Lantern Festival in their lives?

The Lantern Festival, once called the Lantern Festival, is cast in a romantic color. The lively and grand lights of the Lantern Festival seem to provide a beautiful entrance to the beginning of all stories.

On a Ghost Festival more than 900 years ago, young Zhao Mingcheng met the young and beautiful Li Qingzhao while admiring the lanterns at Xiangguo Temple. Zhao Mingcheng, who had already read Qingzhao’s poems, already admired her. , when they met at this time, they naturally fell in love.

In "Ci of Daming Palace", the lost 14-year-old Princess Taiping cries on the bustling streets of Chang'an during the Lantern Festival. The warm and smiling face made the young Princess Taiping feel like she had seen "the brightest ray of sunshine in spring."

When she saw Xue Shao, she was mistaken for life. From then on, Princess Taiping began her life's destiny.

Huang Wuniang, the daughter of Huang Jiugong, the richest man in Chaozhou in the Ming Dynasty, went out to watch lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival. Chen San, a talented man from Quanzhou, and Chen Boxing, who was passing by Chaozhou, also came to watch the lanterns. He happened to meet Wuniang. When Wuniang told her companions the story of watching the lanterns, her elegant talk made Chen San, who happened to be passing by, wonder about it. A feeling of admiration arose, and Wu Niang happened to pick up the fan that Chen San dropped on the ground. The talented and unrestrained poetry on the fan made Wu Niang fall in love with Chen San at first sight.

In order to get close to Wu Niang, Chen San first disguised himself as a mirror grinder, and then sold himself into the Huang family as a slave. After going through many hardships, he finally got married.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, among the carnival crowd at Lin'an Lantern Festival, a beautiful figure attracted Xin Qiji, a lantern watcher. However, the girl disappeared in a flash. Xin Qiji looked around and searched hard, but could no longer find that charming figure. Just when he was about to give up, he turned around inadvertently, and the woman who could steal his heart appeared again. The bold and unrestrained poet with a heart full of spring wrote a poem that will last forever:

I searched for him thousands of times, but suddenly I looked back, and there he was, in the dimly lit place.

The woman who drove the poet crazy was Xin Qiji’s later wife, Fan.

Throughout the ages, countless crazy men and women have met, fallen in love, and known each other at the Lantern Festival during the Hungry Ghost Festival. Women in ancient times could hardly leave their boudoir on weekdays. If they did not have the opportunity to enjoy the lanterns during the Lantern Festival, they would miss out on so much romantic love.

Such a romantic Ghost Festival can often become the best material background in literary creation.

For example, in "A Dream of Red Mansions", Cao Xueqin sets the opening story of this strange book on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. At the lantern festival, Huo Qi, the servant of the Zhen Mansion, held his young lady Yinglian to see the sparkling lanterns, but accidentally lost Yinglian. After that, the Zhen Mansion fell into ruin, and a dream of Red Mansions began.

In the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ying and Zhang Tingyu from Tongcheng, Anhui Province, were both good at poetry and poetry. At that time, they were known as "the father and the son were both bachelors, and the old and the young were the prime ministers." One year during the Lantern Festival, Zhang's mansion decorated with lanterns and set off firecrackers. When the old prime minister went out to take the joint examination for his son, "The high-burning red candle reflected the long sky, and it was bright, and the light spread all over the ground." When his son Zhang Tingyu nodded and thought, he heard the sound of fireworks outside the door, and he suddenly understood. The second couplet said, "Lower the fireworks." The ground was shaken, the sound was loud, and the breath was rising to the sky. "The confrontation is neat and can be called a wonderful pairing."

"Three or five nights in the Qiantang with lights, the bright moon is like frost, illuminating the people like a picture. The incense of the sheng is blown under the tent, and there is no trace of dust following the horse. The people in the lonely mountain city are old! Beat the drums and blow the flute, but Entering the Nongsang Society, the fire is cold and the light is thin, and the frost is shining, and the snowy clouds hang over the fields." This is what Su Shi wrote when he was celebrating the Lantern Festival in Mizhou in the eighth year of Xining (1075). The word "Mizhou Shangyuan" refers to Su Shi who was in Mizhou at that time, but his heart went back to the time when he spent the Lantern Festival in Hangzhou. His deep loneliness made him miss the grand Lantern Festival in Hangzhou even more.

Compared with Su Shi's loneliness, his political opponent Wang Anshi experienced a double happiness in life through a Lantern Festival 33 years ago.

In the second year of Qingli (1042) of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi went to Beijing to take the exam. During the Lantern Festival, he happened to pass by a wealthy family to recruit a bride. The first couplet is "the revolving lantern, the horse moves when the light is turned off, and the horse stops when the light is turned off". Wang Anshi has firmly memorized this first couplet.

When it came time to take the exam in the capital, the examiner's couplet was "Flying Tiger Flag, Flag Flying Tiger, Flag Rolled Tiger Hiding". Unexpectedly, by relying on the perfect response to the recruitment couplet, Wang Anshi passed the exam in high school. After the results were released, he returned to his hometown and passed by that wealthy family. At that time, no one responded to the family recruitment page. Wang Anshi responded with the examination page, and was actually recruited by this family as a son-in-law.

This can be said to be "a pair of Lantern Festival couplets, achieving double happiness."

The Lantern Festival not only provides a beautiful entrance to stories and good materials for literary creation, but also It can bring a happy ending to your life.

Chen Shubao, the empress of the Chen Kingdom in the Southern Dynasty, had a wayward sister, Princess Lechang. The talented and beautiful princess pursues female liberation and independent marriage. She fell in love with Xu Deyan, a scholar from Zhongshushe and a talented man from Jiangnan, so she married Xu Sheng. After marriage, the two of them fell in love. However, the good times did not last long. Yang Jian's army of the Sui Dynasty came to attack. The Chen Kingdom was destroyed and the princess was captured. Xu Deyan was forced to flee, and Princess Lechang was taken to Chang'an.

When Princess Lechang and Xu Deyan separated, they once broke a mirror in half, and each of them kept one half. They agreed that if they could survive after the country was destroyed and their family was destroyed, they would meet to sell bronze mirrors in Chang'an, the capital of Sui Dynasty, on the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month as a letter to find each other's whereabouts.

Later, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian randomly ordered the princess to read the Yuanyang genealogy, and gave her to Yang Su, the general who pacified the Chen Kingdom, as his concubine. During the Lantern Festival for two consecutive years, the princess sold half-faced bronze mirrors along the street to no avail, and there was no news from Xu Deyan. On the Lantern Festival of the third year, Xu Deyan finally arrived in Chang'an and saw the princess's old maid selling half a bronze mirror at a high price, so he took out his own half and compared it, it turned out to be a perfect match. Xu Deyan wrote a poem: "The mirror goes away with people, but the mirror returns to people without returning. Chang'e's shadow is no longer there, but the bright moon shines in the sky." The poem and the bronze mirror were given to the old maid to take back.

Princess Lechang burst into tears when she saw this, and did not think about food or tea all day long. After Yang Su learned the truth, he felt compassion and invited Xu Deyan to the Prime Minister's Mansion for the two to meet. Not only were they allowed to return to their hometown, but they were also given a large number of gifts. Princess Lechang and Xu Deyan have since reunited, loving each other and growing old together.

In ancient Chinese farming society, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has special meaning. It is the day when people begin to sow, and it is also the moment when the ice and snow melt and life sprouts. The Lantern Festival is the first full-moon night of the year, because the ancients called "night" "xiao" and the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. "Yuan, good". "Goodness" indicates good things, so the ancients called this day "Lantern Festival".

In the cold weather of ancient times, our ancestors found the source of warmth - fire, and thus saw the hope of surviving in the cruel nature. Thousands of years later, the ancestors of the farming era transformed this desire for fire into a longing for a better life and wonderful emotions.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, people light lights, hold lantern festivals, and play lantern riddles to slowly spread the warmth, dispel the cold and dullness of the long winter, and start the new year as warm as spring.

"When I look back suddenly, the lights are dimly lit" How did Li Qingzhao and Xin Qiji spend the most important Lantern Festival in their lives? 》