At dusk, candles were passed in the Han Palace, and light smoke was scattered into the five emperors' homes. What festivals are described?

Cold Food Festival, a festival two days before in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day, was called Cold Food Festival because it burned for three days and only ate cold food.

From Han Yi's Cold Food in the Tang Dynasty, the original text is:

In late spring, Chang 'an city is full of songs and dances, and countless flowers fall. The east wind of the Cold Food Festival blows on the willow trees in the royal garden.

As night fell, the palace was busy lighting candles, and smoke drifted to the house of the prince and the marquis.

Translation:

In Chang 'an in late spring, catkins are flying all over the sky, and the east wind blows the willow branches in the imperial garden at the Cold Food Festival. As night fell, the palace was busy handing out candles, and smoke curled into the homes of princes and nobles.

Extended data

Creative background:

Cold Food Festival is a traditional festival in ancient China, which usually takes place from winter to the day after 105 and two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The ancients attached great importance to this festival. According to the custom, every family banned fire and only ate ready-made food, hence the name cold food. In the system of the Tang Dynasty, on Qingming Day, the emperor announced that he would take the fire of elms and willows as a reward for his recent ministers to show his gratitude.

This ceremony has two purposes: first, it marks the end of the Cold Food Festival, and fire can be used; The second is to remind courtiers and officials, so that everyone can learn from mesons who have made meritorious deeds but not rewarded, and work diligently for the people.

After the mid-Tang Dynasty, several bad emperors were partial to eunuchs, so that they were in power, corrupted the court affairs and excluded courtiers. The upright people were extremely indignant about this. Some people think that this poem was written for this purpose.

About the author:

Han Yi, born in Nanyang (now Nanyang, Henan), was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. He is one of the "Top Ten Talents in Dali".

Tianbao 13 (754) was admitted as a scholar. Baoying once served in the shogunate, our ambassador to Ziqing, and then Hou returned to Korea and lived in Chang 'an for ten years. When Jian 'an was in middle age, he was appreciated for writing an article "Cold Food", and he was promoted constantly, and finally became an official in middle school.

Han Yi's poems were light in brushwork and unique in scenery, and were widely read at that time. Poems are mostly written in farewell songs, such as Poems of Han Junping and Poems of the Whole Tang Dynasty, in which three volumes of his poems are recorded.

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