China's Festival Poems

Ouyang Xiu's Cha Sheng Zi Yuan Xi

Lantern Festival, called Yuanxi Festival and Shangyuan Festival in ancient times, is the first festival after the Spring Festival and the first full moon night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, so it has attracted people's attention since ancient times. The time and scene of Song Dynasty writer Ouyang Xiu's poem "Yuanxiao with raw tea seeds" is set on the night of Yuanxiao. In the poem, the contrast between the present and the present shows the sadness that things are different. "Last year, the flower market was as brightly lit as the daytime in January night." Lovers secretly agreed to meet after dusk, sincerely. On the night of January this year, the moon and the lamp were still as good as last year, but "I didn't see anyone last year, and my sleeves were wet with tears." In festivals, laughter belongs to others, and poets only have sadness.

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Flower Festival

Cai Yun's Ode to the Flower Dynasty

Flower Festival is a festival to commemorate the birth of a hundred flowers, and it is one of the traditional folk activities in China. Popular in Northeast China, East China, North China, Central South and other places, usually held in February of the lunar calendar. Cai Yun, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, wrote: "A hundred flowers are in good season, but the flowers are not half spring. Colorful, decorated with flower gods, reflects the ancient people's love and worship of nature.

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Qingming Festival

Su Shi's "Looking at the South of the Yangtze River, Beyond Things"

In ancient times, Tomb-Sweeping Day was the last two days of the Cold Food Festival, also known as the Smoke-free Festival and the Cold Food Festival. Because smoking and lighting fires are forbidden during cold food, only cold food is eaten, and the cold food after Tomb-Sweeping Day can rekindle a "new fire". This custom is mentioned in Su Shi's Looking at the South of the Yangtze River and Surpassing Taiwan Province, "Don't miss the old country, try new tea with new fire. Poetry and wine fall in love. " Su Shi was trapped in a foreign land when he visited the grave in Tomb-Sweeping Day to worship his ancestors. This is a comforting word. It is better to burn a new fire for nothing and taste new tea. Good poetry and good wine don't live up to this wonderful time.

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Dragon Boat Festival

Su Shi's Huanxisha Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is one of the four traditional festivals in China. It mainly commemorates Qu Yuan, a politician and scholar in the Warring States Period. Su Shi's poem "Huanxisha Dragon Boat Festival" contains some holiday customs about the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that this poem was written in the second year of Su Shi's relegation to Huizhou, and he remembered his concubine Chaoyun. "Bathing fragrant orchids in the Dragon Boat Festival in the Ming Dynasty" and "The colored thread is lightly wrapped around the red jade arm, and the small symbol is hung obliquely" are all traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which always involve bathing fragrant orchids, wrapping colored silk thread around the arm, and hanging symbols in a bun to ward off evil spirits and protect peace.

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Chinese Valentine's Day; Qixi Festival

Yang pu's tanabata

Tanabata, also known as Qiao Qi Festival and Qiaoqi Festival, is a traditional Valentine's Day in China, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. In fairy tales, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can only cross the river on Tanabata across the Milky Way, which is a sad love legend. "If you don't know what this means, you must invite the Weaver Girl to get the golden lock. Begging for wisdom year after year, but human beings are much smarter. " The Song Dynasty scholar Yang Pu's poem Tanabata makes the legend of Tanabata interesting.

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Mid-Autumn Festival

Su Shi's When Will the Bright Moon Be Bright?

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, etc. On the night of the full moon on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, relatives get together, drink osmanthus wine and enjoy the moon. Scholars, on the other hand, like to express their homesickness on the occasion of the full moon, the most classic of which is "I wish people a long time, thousands of miles away" in Su Shi's "Water Melody". May everyone in the world be safe and healthy for a long time, be separated from their relatives in Wan Li in time and enjoy the beautiful moonlight. This is a good wish given to them since ancient times.

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New Year's Eve

Comfortable night work

New Year's Eve, originally meant to "bid farewell to the old and welcome the new". On the last day of the lunar calendar every year, the whole family gets together to welcome the New Year. Gao Shi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote Nocturnal Travel, which is about the thoughts of wanderers and their families on New Year's Eve. "Tonight, there will be a year tomorrow." The poet lamented that New Year's Eve was thousands of miles away from my hometown, but I couldn't see it. I felt that the New Year was coming and the years were flying, which also set off the "flavor of the year" on the other hand.