What is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar?

The first month of the lunar calendar is China's traditional "Lantern Festival", but also the "on the Yuan Festival", or "Festival of Lights". The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the night for the "night", the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month for the Lantern Festival. There are eating Lantern (dumplings), lanterns, dragon dances, lion dances and other customs.

Legend of the Lantern Festival

The history of the Lantern Festival can be traced back to more than two thousand years ago, the long years have made the Lantern Festival has a lot of legends - "lanterns," "Ping Lu said! ""Lantern girl said" and so on make this traditional festival added a few romantic colors.

The burning of the lanterns. Legend

Legend has it that a long time ago, there were a lot of ferocious birds and beasts that went around hurting people and livestock, and people had to unite to fight them. One day, a god bird landed on earth because it was lost, but was accidentally shot by an unknowing hunter.

The emperor was so furious that he immediately sent a decree ordering the heavenly soldiers to come to the earth on the 15th day of the first month to set fire to all human and animal properties on the earth.

The emperor's daughter is kind-hearted, can not bear to see the people innocent suffering, at the risk of their lives, secretly ride the clouds to the earth, the news told the people.

When the people heard the news, it was like a thunderclap on their heads, and they were so scared that they didn't know what to do. After a long time, there is an old man came up with a method, he said: "in the first month of the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth three days, every family in the house lights, firecrackers, fireworks. In this way, the emperor of heaven will think that people have been burned to death."

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement, and went to prepare for the event. On the night of the 14th day of the first month, the Heavenly Emperor looked down and found the earth to be red and loud. Three consecutive nights are so, the emperor thought it was a big fire burning flames, the heart is very fast.

In this way, people saved their lives and their property. Since then, every time on the fifteenth day of the first month, families would hang lanterns and set off fireworks to commemorate the festival.