What day is the Lantern Festival in 217? What day is it?

February 11th, 217, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Saturday, the Lantern Festival in 217 (Year of the Rooster)

The first month is January of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the first lunar month, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival.

Lantern Festival is not a national holiday. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. Lantern Festival viewing began in the period of Emperor Hanming in the East. Ming Di advocated Buddhism. I heard that there was a practice of monks viewing Buddhist relics and lighting lamps to worship Buddha on the 15th day of the first month in Buddhism, so they ordered that lights should be lit in palaces and temples to worship Buddha on this night, so that all the cremation and ordinary people would hang lamps. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people and from the Central Plains to the whole country.

In the Han Dynasty, people held torches to drive away insects and beasts in rural fields, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a good harvest. To this day, people in some areas in southwest China still make torches out of reeds or branches on the fifteenth day of the first month, and hold them high in groups and dance in fields or grain drying fields. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been in full swing. Tens of thousands of people took part in singing and dancing, from faint to dull. With the changes of society and times, the customs of Lantern Festival have changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.

The real motivation of Lantern Festival custom is that it is at a new time point, and people make full use of this special time stage to express their life wishes.

Yuanxiao is eaten on the 15th day of the first month. As a food, Yuanxiao has a long history 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 "Tangyuan", is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be 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. The custom of putting lights on Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Chang 'an, the capital city, was already the largest city in the world with a population of one million, and the society was rich.

Under the personal initiative of the emperor, the Lantern Festival is becoming more and more luxurious. After the mid-Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. During the prosperous time of Kaiyuan in Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (685-762 AD), the lantern market in Chang 'an was very large, with 5, lanterns and various lanterns. The emperor ordered people to make 2 giant lantern buildings, which were 15 feet high and glittering and spectacular.