Mid-autumn fireworks poems

The poem of Mid-Autumn Fireworks is as follows:

1, thousands of trees bloom in the easterly night. It blows down and the stars are like rain.

Source: Song Xin Qi Ji "Jade Case Yuan Xi"

Interpretation: Like the east wind blowing away thousands of trees and flowers, it also blows fireworks like rain.

2, fire tree silver flower, star bridge lock.

Source: Tang Su Weidao "The fifteenth day of the first month"

Interpretation: the lights are scattered, and the depths of the garden reflect brilliant lights and fireworks, just like delicate flowers; Because it was available everywhere, the iron lock of the city gate was also opened.

3, the fire tree silver flowers are eye-catching, revealing the sky and advocating the spring breeze.

Source: Yuan Ye by Song Zhushu.

Commentary: All the fireworks in the sky are bright red. People are playing musical instruments and beating gongs and drums to welcome the arrival of the spring breeze.

4. Bao Yan is full of flowers.

Source: Song Xin Qi Ji, "Before and after The Mermaid Cuiping Luomu Cover"

Interpretation: Fireworks diffuse, fireworks fly into the sky, as colorful as thousands of flowers.

5, a hundred fire dragons hold candles, and seven take the phoenix to spit flowers.

Source: Liu Ming's painting "Yuan Xi Zhong Guan and miscellaneous guests set off fireworks"

Interpretation: When setting off fireworks, it is like hundreds of fire dragons flying into the sky with candlelight. Colorful fireworks are like beautiful tassels, like colorful sparks from a phoenix.

Knowledge expansion

Mid-Autumn Festival is popular in Han Dynasty, which is a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China, and cultural exchanges between different places spread together. The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in the documents of the Han Dynasty and was written in Zhou Li of the Han Dynasty (handed down from Zhou Gongdan, actually written between the Han Dynasty). According to legend, in the pre-Qin period, there were activities such as "Mid-Autumn Festival to welcome the cold night", "Giving good clothes in the Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Moon at the Autumn Equinox (Yue Bai)".

According to records, in the Han Dynasty, there was an activity of respecting the elderly and sending coarse cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival or beginning of autumn. There are also written records about Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty, but it is not very common. Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty was not popular in northern China.

Story source

The myth of "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon" originated from the ancient people's worship of the stars, and the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon first appeared in "Returning to Tibet". Later, the story was further developed by the people and evolved into several story versions. Chang 'e boarded the moon palace. According to Huainanzi in the Western Han Dynasty, it was because she ate the elixir that her husband Hou Yi asked the Queen Mother of the West, flew into the Moon Palace and became a toad.