Origin and Legendary Stories of Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival, one of the traditional Chinese festivals, is also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengmu, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, which takes place on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. But about the origin of the Lantern Festival is not necessarily everyone knows, the following is to introduce to you, I hope to help you.

The origin of the Lantern Festival: In the period of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, after the death of Empress Dowager Lu, her family was afraid of losing power, conspired to rebel, but was the King of Qi, Liu Capsule, combined with the founding of the veteran Zhou Bo in the fifteenth day of the first month of the day together to pacify the "Zhu Lv's chaos", after the Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, Liu Heng, ascended to the throne in order to celebrate the day, the capital of the city, every house is decorated, everyone came to celebrate with great joy and excitement. In order to celebrate this day, every house in the capital was decorated with lanterns and colorful lights, and everyone came to celebrate in a lively manner. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also known as the "Lantern Festival". Han Wendi open double quotes, the Lantern Festival has officially become a folk festival.

There is also a saying that the Lantern Festival originated from the "Torch Festival", ancient people like to hold torches in the countryside to drive away insects and animals, hoping to mitigate insect pests, to protect crops, and praying for a good harvest, and slowly evolved into today's Lantern Festival. Until today, in the southwest of China, there are still some people in the first month of the fifteenth with reed wood or branches made of torches, groups of people holding up torches in the fields or sunshine field dancing, of course, this is just a way to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

The origin of the Lantern Festival is also related to the "Three Elements" of Taoism, which refers to the 15th day of the first month of the year as the Festival of the First Era, the 15th day of the 7th month as the Festival of the Middle Era, and the 15th day of the 10th month as the Festival of the Lower Era. In charge of the festival of the first yuan for the heavenly officials, the heavenly officials happy, so the festival of the first yuan to light lamps. This gives rise to the custom of lighting lanterns and setting off fireworks at the Lantern Festival. In addition, the first month of the fifteenth is the first full moon night of the year, the full moon symbolizes the reunion of the beautiful, this day is an auspicious day, it is natural to celebrate.

Summary:

The origin of the Lantern Festival has a variety of sayings, some say it is in the Han Dynasty to commemorate the "Ping Lu" event and set up a festival, there is also a theory that the Lantern Festival originated in the "Torch Festival", there are some people who think that the Lantern Festival is the ancient people in order to celebrate. Some people believe that the Lantern Festival is the ancient people in order to celebrate the first full moon of the year and the establishment of the Lantern Festival, so it is also called "on the Yuan Festival".