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The meaning of "the last dollar night"

Shangyuanyue

Last night author: Cui Ye

There's no hurry.

The iron lock is completely open.

Who can do nothing on the moon?

Where can I smell the light?

Shangyuan night refers to the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, also known as Lantern Festival. China is known as the custom of enjoying lanterns on the Lantern Festival. Cui Ye's poem Night on the Yuan Dynasty has seven quatrains, including six * * *. Describe the bustling scene of enjoying the lanterns at the Chang 'an Lantern Festival in Beijing at that time. According to Liu Su's "Da Tang Xin Yu", "On the occasion of the Year of the Loong (the year number of Tang Zhongzong), on the fifteenth day of the first month of the capital, the sun was shining and the lights were dancing, and Wu Jin was forbidden to travel at night. Noble relatives and lower-ranking workers all travel at night. Cars and horses are noisy and people can't take care of them. The king and the householder immediately became hilarious and competed with each other.

All the scribes wrote a poem to commemorate their event. There are hundreds of authors, only Su Weidao, assistant minister of the Chinese book, Shangshu of the official department (Su and Guo's works are all five laws) and Cui Ye, an imperial envoy in the temple, are the swan songs. This is the first of Cui Ye's "Six Poems about Watching Lights".

"Jade is not a tool, and the iron lock is fully open." "Jade Leaking Silver Pot", an instrument for timing, was used in ancient times to time by the method of engraving. The specific method is to use a copper pot to hold water, make a small hole in the bottom of the pot, neutralize the arrows in the pot, and gradually reduce the water in the pot, so that the degrees on the arrows will appear in turn, so that you can time according to the degrees and beat the drums to report for work. Although the curfew was lifted at midnight, the bell and drum towers in Chang 'an were still on time. When people hear this, they all feel that time passes too fast, and they are afraid that they will not enjoy themselves. So they said, drop the arrow pot, don't rush so fast, and don't go so fast. The gate will be open until dawn tonight! The last sentence is about people's feeling of "short happiness", and the next sentence is that in this peaceful and prosperous time, we should have fun all night. After dinner, people dressed up and couldn't restrain their joy. They couldn't wait to leave home early. Three people invited, called and laughed, pouring out of the alley, into the street and into the noisy and jubilant crowd. People happily set off fireworks and firecrackers, waved lion dragon lanterns, watched colored lights, commented, played and admired. The more you watch, the happier you are, and the more you play, the more excited you are.

Set off a warm atmosphere and charming scenery, Full Opening not only describes the time and extent of the Lantern Festival all night, but also describes people's high and sustained enthusiasm.

Then he used two questions: "Who can do nothing on the moon? Where can I smell the lights? " "Whose home" and "Where" actually refer to the grand occasion when every household and everyone explains that all alleys are empty. This includes all kinds of people from princes to ordinary people. Therefore, "whose home" and "where"

There are too many contents in these four words, which completely describe the night scene of the Lantern Festival in Beijing. People are crowded, cars are running like water, lights are flashing and people are bustling.