The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called Chinese Valentine’s Day. How does it come about?

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, while people are watching lanterns, guessing riddles, and eating Lantern Festivals, they should not forget that this day is also China's "Valentine's Day." Some experts pointed out that the Lantern Festival is more connotative, more traditional and full of charm than the Western Valentine's Day.

"A piece of Sheng song makes spring like the sea, and the night with thousands of lights looks like day." There are countless poems by literati and poets throughout the ages praising the New Year's Eve lanterns. This also determines that the Lantern Festival is a romantic and poetic festival, a festival that can give birth to love in an instant.

Wang Laihua, chief expert of the Public Opinion Research Institute of the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, said that since unmarried girls in ancient times usually stayed at home, only on the Lantern Festival were they allowed to go out together to watch the lanterns and enjoy the entertainment. Many passionate men and women Take the opportunity to find your sweetheart and create the spark of love. Therefore, countless good marriages are created on the Lantern Festival. The famous Teochew opera "Chen San Wu Niang" is based on the Lantern Festival and tells the romantic love story of Chen San and Huang Wu Niang. In the ancient drama "Spring Lantern Riddles", Yu Wenyan and Ying Niang also vowed to each other on the Lantern Festival night.

In fact, the Lantern Festival is China's "Valentine's Day", and there are poems to prove it. There are many poems in the past dynasties that use the Lantern Festival to express love and affection. Ouyang Xiu of the Northern Song Dynasty wrote a poem, "On the Yuan night of this year, the moon and the lights are still the same. Without seeing the person from last year, tears fill the sleeves of the spring shirt", which describes the pain of longing between lovers.

It is not difficult to see in the poems and songs of Chinese literati in the past dynasties that the romance and warmth of the Lantern Festival is no less than the popular Western Valentine's Day. To a certain extent, "Tangyuan" is still in the limelight. Overshadowed "Ocean Rose". The most famous one is "Shengchazi·Yuanxi": "On the Lantern Festival last year, the lights in the flower market were as bright as day; the moon was on the willow branches, and people made appointments after dusk." It can be called an eternal masterpiece.