China ancient "Shangyuan Festival" refers to which festival?

Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, and also the Chinese character cultural circle and the area where overseas Chinese live together. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year was called the Lantern Festival.

In the ancient customs of China, Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival), Zhongyuan Festival (Orchid Festival) and Xiayuan Festival (Water Joint) are collectively called Sanyuan Festival. Lantern Festival began in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth day of the first month to be designated as the Lantern Festival. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month (Taiyi: the God in charge of everything in the universe). When Sima Qian created the taichu calendar Law, he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.

riddle written on a lantern

Riddle has always been a traditional puzzle game in China. In Song Dynasty, Lantern Festival had the meaning of "Lantern Festival", and one of the signs was the appearance of "Lantern Festival". Lantern riddles are riddles posted on Lantern Festival lanterns for tourists to guess, also known as "Yu Ci" and "argot". In the Southern Dynasties, Liang and Liu Xie wrote in "Harmony of Carving Dragons with Literary Mind": "Since the Wei Dynasty, it has been quite embarrassing, but the gentleman ridiculed it and turned it into a riddle."

In the Southern Song Dynasty, "lantern riddles", as a kind of lantern riddles, had become an essential entertainment item for the Lantern Festival. According to Wu's Dream Record, people in the Southern Song Dynasty can make a living by doing crossword puzzles, just like storytelling and playing chess: "Businessmen, first congratulate them, and then gather people to guess poetry crossword puzzles, crossword puzzles, violent crossword puzzles and social crossword puzzles. This is a argot. There is a riddle, which tourists read in English, also called a riddle.