Seven Songs of Tang Poetry for Shangyuan Lantern Festival: Moonlight and Lights Fill the Imperial Capital, Thousands of Doors Open and Ten Thousand Lights Shine Brightly

Tang Dynasty Poetry: Seven Songs for the Festival of Lights

When is the New Year's Eve the most festive time of the year? Some people say it is New Year's Eve, because the whole family to observe the New Year's Eve, firecrackers, some people say it is the seventh day of the New Year, because it is basically the opening day of the market, the first few days of the relatives of the party to visit, at this time more is not constrained by the friends of the play.

But in the Tang Dynasty, the most lively New Year's Eve is the fifteenth day of the first month, because the big city where people accumulate, Chang'an Luoyang, has a three-day festival of lights, and since it's a festival of lights, that means that the night is more lively than the day. And these three days are the city gates are open, no night curfew control. That is to say, normally even in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the most you can do is to stand on a high building in the city and look at the moon with a few friends, and when the night control is in place, you can only stay at your friends' houses, but for these three days and nights of the New Year's Lantern Festival, you can travel through the city all night long. It's a carnival that's even more festive than New Year's.

Let's not even talk about the countryside outside the city, where dragon dances and lanterns are danced to welcome the gods.

Why is the 15th day of the first month so attractive?

One, it's the first full moon of the new year, and since ancient times, people have believed that the sun brings light, but the moon god is the one who brings water and reproduction. So when the moon is full, there is a custom to worship the moon god, not to mention the initial full moon of the year, which signifies harvest and success.

Second, the worship of the ancient fire god. The Han Dynasty still maintains a large number of flint wood fire way, especially in the spring, people worship the fire god.

Third, this is the traditional Chinese New Year, that is, from the beginning of the waxing moon to the first fifteen days of the first month of the year, the grand New Year's festival is officially over, life and work are about to enter the right track, the farmers began to spring plowing, the establishment of a variety of supporting systems around the basis of agriculture, the social system began to a new round of intense and orderly operation. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do it in a way that makes you feel better.

Fourth, the Tang Dynasty, Taoism state, the official systematic promotion of Taoism, set on the Day of the First Emperor is the official legal holiday, sacrifices to the gods, in addition to a variety of daytime rituals, usually the gods are manifested in the middle of the night, such as the famous Tang Dynasty to meet the purple nuns God's activities in the middle of the night. In addition, the Tang Dynasty at the same time the prevalence of Buddhism, and since the Han Dynasty royal family on the 15th of the first month of the lamp for the Buddha's important rituals, to the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian era is a great Buddhism, the natural lamps are grand.

Fifth, the rare festival of lights is a national carnival event in Tang Dynasty.

"Luo City, three or five nights, the son of heaven, ten thousand years of spring.

The colorful battle moved double Que, Qiong feast will be nine guests.

The colorful battles are moved to the two queues, and the nine guests are invited to the feast.

It was not until the dawn of the east that I realized the newness of the Imperial Algae. Sun Ti's "Responding to the Preparation on the Night of the 15th Day of the First Moon"

Some people say that it is the work of Shen Nephep. Shen Nephew was an important literary minister in the era of Wu Zetian. Luoyang and Chang'an were the twin capitals of the Tang Dynasty, and it can be seen that the Lantern Festival, which was dominated by the emperor, was a celebration of ancient times plus the reintroduction of Buddha, with songs, dances and pujas being held all night long in the palace city of Luoyang until the sun came out the next day.

Sun Ti, on the other hand, straddles the two dynasties of Wu Zetian and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. It is written here about the grandness of the Shangyuan Festival at the palace in the early Tang era.

"The fire trees and silver flowers merge, the starry bridge and iron locks open.

The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes with the man.

All of the tourists are flora and fauna, and the path of traveling songs is falling plums.

The night of Jingu is not forbidden, and the jade hourglass is not pushed. "[Tang] Su Weiwei's "The Night of the Fifteenth Night of the First Moon"

Su Weiwei was a man of Wu Zetian's time, and the Shangyuan Festival was a festival of lanterns and fireworks. The Star Bridge, a bridge to the sky, is actually the same as the palace, where the Son of Heaven comes out to have fun with the people. The road was full of people watching the lanterns for the festival, and those singing girls dressed up and walked under the bright moon. This night, there is no curfew, people are free to play all over the city, lights and moon, singing and dancing everywhere, so do not have to care about the time as usual, to the point of going home.

"Thousands of doors are unlocked and ten thousand lights are on, moving the imperial capital in the middle of the first month.

Three hundred people in the house danced with their sleeves, and there was a sound of words in the sky. "

This is the Lantern Festival of the late Tang Dynasty. Zhang Hu had not been an official, but how he saw three hundred palace ladies dancing, in fact, this is the prosperity and openness of the Tang Dynasty, on this night, the emperor and the palace people will also watch the lanterns at the head of the city, dedicating to the public is the vast and grand palace songs and dances, to cheer up the festival.

"Nine strangers even the shadow of the lamp, a thousand doors to the moon.

The city out of the treasure ride, turn road turn incense car.

The firm is only worried about the dawn, the tour does not ask home.

The company's firmament is only worried about the dawn, and the company does not ask for home. " [Tang] Guo Lizhen "on the yuan"

Here you can see the lively Shangyuan Festival, nine days on the main road are lanterns, and all the city gates and mansions are open and hung lanterns, full of the city are BMW incense car on the move, a sea of people, that is, the night, both men and women can go out on the street, some of them are sincere to go to the religious places, more intoxicated in the lights of the hustle and bustle. The first is to go to a religious place, and the second is to go to a religious place.

Such a romance is simply not night and day, traveling around simply do not need to go home at the point like the original. More many people on the road on the blowing music, singing and dancing, in the plum tree, to see the plum blossoms in the night everywhere floating flowers.

"Tonight poor spring, river bridge more beautiful people.

The precious horse is made of gold, and the fragrant car is made of jade.

The first time I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie, and I saw the movie.

The heavy city is not covered, out to the small Pingjin". Chen Jiayan "on the night of the New Year's Eve, the effect of Xiaoyu body"

On the New Year's Day is a religious day is more folklore days, everyone has a different mind and fun. It was also a particularly tolerant day. In the Tang Dynasty, girls were not restricted from outdoor movement, but the month of lights to see hordes of liliums was really only on the night of the 15th day of the first month of the year. There were a lot of dressed-up beauties by the river.

Some of them are from big families, some are small families, but the festival makes everyone equal, can come out to see the flowers and lanterns to see the moon.

Rarely a group trip girls sitting in a BMW car, attracting them to the road handsome man's body and face, while the men are more free, where the beauty of the more, where to go.

The 15th day of the first month is also a good day for men and women to fall in love. The moon is so beautiful, the people are so close, and all the festivities are the set and path of love.

"In the first year, three or five nights, one or two people know each other.

Even the body parts out of the mouth of the alley, flying hub down the pool shore.

The light is like the moon, the face is like spring.

The light is like the moon, and the faces of the people are like the spring.

This is the first time I've ever seen a movie in the world, and I've never seen a movie in the world. This Lantern Festival is also a party of friendship. Riding a high horse, out of the alley, directly to the most crowded Qujiang Qu Chi. Along the way the lights are countless moons, the reddish red lights, will people's faces shine beautifully.

The Tang Dynasty Festival of Lights must be accompanied by a variety of entertainment, I believe that absolutely this middle is not less than food and drink. Some people play, there must be someone to do business with tourists, so these people are not less excited, has been to see the sunrise on the sixteenth day of the first month. It was an all-nighter!

"The moonlight and lamps and mountains are full of the imperial capital, and the incense car and treasure cover the pass through the streets.

I don't want to see the prosperity of the Middle Kingdom, but I'm afraid to chase the villagers away from the purple nuns. "

Although Li Shangyin was not in the capital this year, he returned to his hometown to worry about his mother's illness, but every year, Chang'an's lantern festival is so lively and gorgeous, so that he was in the mountains and his heart could not help but fly over.

This distant reminiscence, on the contrary, is like a picture of the whole atmosphere of the festival in Chang'an.

That Chang'an this night is the splendor of the moon, the brilliant lights, lights and moon, make Chang'an become a heaven on earth, and under the lights and moon, is the traffic on the road blocked, they constitute the joy and splendor of the Lantern Festival.

This verse became a classic poem of the Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, Li Shangyin's strong love for Chang'an, of course, also because of a person, that Ziyang Immortal No. Bao Lantern of the Purple Nun Taoist nun, naturally, still in Chang'an City, she must be at this time, too, in the most beautiful and gorgeous lights on the Shangyuan Festival, dressed up to do the spells, which is the love of his heart and nymphs.

The importance of the Shangyuan Festival to ordinary people is still the feelings, whether it is the passion of spring or thoughts, which are particularly beautiful on this day of revelry.

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