This year's Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival), the Palace Museum will hold the "Forbidden City Shangyuan Night" activity. Picture/Panorama

At that time, Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) was a carnival for all people, from the emperor to beggars. It was also the Valentine's Day most expected by ancient boys and girls.

Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) gives the young ladies and gentlemen a chance to date. Image/"Know or not, know or not should be green fat red thin"

Don't tell your girlfriend,

Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) is the Chinese Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day has been a long time in the world. Apart from February 14th, the 14th of every month is also considered as various Valentine's Day. There is also an inexplicable online Valentine's Day like May 20th, which really makes male compatriots bald for love.

There are so many Valentine's Day, but when it comes to counting,Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) is the Chinese Valentine's Day.As for Qixi, in ancient times, it was the Daughter's Day, which is roughly equal to today's March 8.

The Chinese ancients had always restrained themselves, and only the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival), with three thousand favourites, could indulge themselves.On this day, there were no restrictions on men and women, and the daughter's home, who was raised in the boudoir, finally welcomed a sunny day. The streets were filled with lush greenery and lively music. The girls confidently go out shopping, admire the lights and scenery, and then meet a charming and charming man, making dating and romance a natural occurrence.

The grand occasion of Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) in Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty in the Painting of Shangyuan Lanterns. Image/Wikipedia

If you don't believe the poems about Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival), such as "The moon is on the willow tops, and it's about dusk", "The lights are burning in the Qiantang for three or five nights. The bright moon is like frost, and the people can be seen as pictures", and more straightforward, such as "green dresses with long sleeves, playing strings, and laughing in all directions", "Look at the women of Chu, slim waist", there are always beauties like flowers.

The most familiar thing is that "people are looking for him thousands of times. Suddenly looking back, the man was in the dim light." At that time, men and women could point to the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) all year round to play an encounter.

Chinese traditional festivals are almost entirely dominated by keywords such as reunion and family, leaving little personal space for young people to express themselves. It was not easy to have a romantic Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival). Today, because of the rough seal on the traditional festival, it gradually faded into a thousand uniform reunion festivals.

Without the Valentine's Day style of Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival), the restless young people naturally have no super motivation for the festival.However, a large number of netizens expressed that this is not entirely a bad thing, after all, the Valentine's Day gift to be given is missing again.

Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Temple Fair. Picture/Panorama

When will the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) be off

In 2006, a deputy to the National People's Congress named Zhou Hongyu proposed that Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, Loong Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival should be included in the national statutory holidays. Two years later, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid Autumn Festival officially joined the camp of legal holidays, and Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) has not been able to have exclusive holidays.

Professor Zhou Hongyu has persevered and still insists on giving Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) a holiday, and netizens have almost fallen to the ground to support him.However, I dare to speculate that the reason why some people support Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) is not because they love it, but because there are holidays to let go.

There are many reasons for not giving holidays. The most widely spread is that Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) is too close to the Spring Festival. It takes only a few days to go to work on the seventh day of the lunar new year. I have just adjusted my work status. If I take another holiday, it will take me several days to relax. Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) has been incorporated into the statutory holidays, and it is still a long journey.

Adhering to the old customs, Pingxi Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) was selected as one of the world's 14 "must visit before death" festivals. Image/Wikipedia

As the saying goes, 'The king celebrates his ministers with the music of the people, and together they show respect to the east wind.',The ancient people were much better friends with Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival). The whole people were high together. The official holiday was like a flood discharge.

The Han Dynasty was the most stingy, but still allowed one day to pass. In the Tang Dynasty, there were more literati and poets, and it took them three days to fully express their poetic emotions. The Song Dynasty was very generous, and it lasted for a whole five days, giving the people ample time to indulge in flirting with women and men.

In the Ming Dynasty, it became even more wild,The Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) lanterns were put up on the eighth day of the lunar month, and the waves lasted until the late night of the 17th day of the first lunar month. For ten days, it was like a carnival with lifeIt makes people wish they could travel back to the Ming Dynasty.

The bustling scene of the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival in Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty.

Without the blessing of "statutory", the super strong BUFF, most office workers can only spend the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival in their offices. rice dumpling is not free to eat, let alone enjoy the lights on appointments.

The most Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) like event is probably the annual Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) held by CCTV. This year's Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Gala included "Come on Boys" (yes, that's what it says on the program list), Wang Junkai, Wang Yuan and Yiyang Qianxi, Zhang Yixing, and Gu Juji. There are also many highlights.

However, by the time you work overtime and return home at 10 o'clock, the Joy Party will have already ended, so you have to brush Weibo hot searches and watch replays the next day.

After Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival), the year is over. Image/SuOoyuen

There are no lights to enjoy in the world

Without a light, it's not entertaining, and without a moon, it's not considered spring. Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) is a festival without lights.

The ancients worshipped the enthusiasm and brightness of fire, so important festivals always had fire, such as the Spring Festival with firecrackers, and the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) with lights. Burning lanterns on Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) not only has the spiritual significance of exorcising evil spirits and praying for good fortune, but also has the practical function of driving away insects and animals and measuring the harvest.

North Korea still has the traditional custom of "rat fire play" during Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival). Image/Wikipedia

There are also many ways to light lanterns, hanging lanterns is a routine operation, as well as placing sky lanterns, burning fire towers, stealing lanterns, and so on. However, currently only lanterns are widely popular.

For safety reasons, many places have banned the lantern fairs and temple fairs during the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival).If you are lucky, you will meet the official or community property Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival. But as for this lantern, the aesthetic is inexplicable.

The main light of the 2016 Taipei Lantern Festival, Fulu Monkey, echoes "Fulu" with a gourd shaped design, crying ugly to netizens on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

There are also various wild lanterns bundled with trendy IPs, such as animated films, TV dramas, and supernatural legends, which can be made into lanterns. From the on-site reports contributed by netizens from various places, it can only be said that a refreshing effect has been achieved, but it is unknown whether children will have nightmares when they return home after strolling through the lights.

In the Chinese version of Disney Princess Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival), the combination of east and west is a good thing. If there is no east, there will be no trouble.

If you don't feel sorry for Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) at this lantern party, you will feel even more sorry for Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival).

What's more, there are countless businesses competing to dress the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival as their shopping festival and performance festival.

What kind of fire trees and silver flowers, searching for him in the crowd, until now, are all Yiwu wholesale small lanterns, andGuessing puzzles to receive discount cards.

Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Lantern in Yu Garden, Shanghai. Image/Wikipedia

Listen to the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) and the clamor of the past year. There are thousands of songs and dances.It's really not easy to find a good place to admire the lanterns nowadays.

In the good season of Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Lantern Festival, the jade pot turns in the light and fish and dragon dance in the night. I'm afraid I can only stay in the poem and leave some incense in my spare time.

As the saying goes, 'It's not until the fifteenth day that the Chinese New Year comes to an end.' As the end of the Spring Festival, this festival that should be full of charm, when can it regain the romantic leisure of 'willow shoots on the moon, people's appointment after dusk'?