What's the festival after dusk when people meet in the willows?

Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, it falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year and is one of the traditional festivals in China. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

By the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival had developed into an unprecedented lantern market. The capital "made lanterns 20 feet high, resplendent in clothes, decorated with gold and silver, burning 50,000 lanterns and clustering them into flower trees".

Su Weidao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "The fifteenth night of the first month", saying, "The fire trees and silver flowers are combined, and the star bridges are locked. The dark dust goes with the horse and the bright moon comes. " It depicts a scene of colorful lights, bright moonlight, tourists weaving and excitement.

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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."

Lantern Festival solve riddles on the lanterns matured in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Jia Qinglu, a Qing Gulu, recorded the scene of solve riddles on the lanterns at the Suzhou Lantern Festival that year: "Good people skillfully make code words and light lamps. The lamp covers the wall on one side and sticks the topic on three sides. Anyone can guess. It's called charades. Mysteries are classics, poems, hundreds of schools of thought, legendary novels and proverbs, things, feather scales, insects, flowers and herbs.