Shangyuan Festival Baidu Encyclopedia

The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengmu, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the 15th day of the first month is the first full-moon night of the year, so the 15th day of the first month is called "Lantern Festival".

According to Taoism's "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month is also known as the "Festival of the First Element". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the festive custom of viewing lanterns.

Legend has it that the Lantern Festival was set up by Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty to commemorate the "Ping Lu". After the death of Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying, the son of Lv Beijing Shangyuan Lantern Festival, ascended the throne as Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty. The emperor was weak and indecisive, and his power gradually fell into the hands of Empress Lu.

After the death of Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty, after Lv took control of the government to turn Liu's world into Lv's world, the court officials, Liu's clan is y indignant, but they are afraid of Lv's brutality and dare not speak out in anger.

The Lantern Festival's festival period and festive activities, is with the development of history and extend, expand. In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is from the eighth light, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month of the light, is the longest in Chinese history, and the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, burning lights at night, spectacular.

Specifically, the elaborate and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival.?