Chapter 3 Yu Lantern Festival(2/2)
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Buddhism flourished in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and officials and people attached great importance to the Ullambana Festival. The Ullambana in major temples was officially supported. Every year, they delivered pots and various debris, as well as pots, musicians, and officials who delivered pots, etc. The Ullambana Festival was grand and enthusiastic.
After the founding of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui advocated frugality and opposes luxury. The Ullambana Festival became light for a while, but the new emperor ascended the throne and advocated prosperity and prosperity. The officials and people in the world enjoyed each other. The trend of luxury gradually emerged, and the Ullambana Festival flourished again.
The people are more called Zhongyuan Festival. This is the rotation of the heaven and earth officials, and hungry ghosts are pardoned and escorted by the underworld officials to the world for food. Therefore, every household cooks rice, steams cakes, and offers fruits for the ancestors underground to eat. At the same time, they set up lights and decorate evil ghosts, and the powerful and famous family Yulan offers a pot to fight for Buddha light, which attracts people to come with their wives and children to enjoy. This day becomes a prosperous day for humans and ghosts to enjoy.
The Zhongyuan Festival is the middle of July, but in fact, it starts from the beginning of July to welcome the ancestors. A large amount of paper money and wealth are burned, and it continues until the fifteenth day of July. Every household wants to worship the ancestors and official sacrifices to the spirits of the dead soldiers. By the middle of the month, the Ullambana Festival begins again. The two festivals merge, watching lanterns and enjoying the basin has become a joy for the public to appreciate together.
The most lively part of the Yulam Bon Festival in Luoyang is mainly concentrated on both sides of the Luoshui River. Unlike the Shangyuan Festival, the Zhongyuan Festival is a ghost watching lantern, and the water is yin, so all kinds of lighting are concentrated in the water. The two sides of the Luoshui River are decorated with Yulam Bon and Buddha Light fighting. Therefore, there are almost crowds of people on both sides of the Luoshui River, and hundreds of thousands of residents have their wives and children to watch lanterns on both sides of the Luoshui River.
The colorful light wheels seen in green tea are located on the south bank of Luoshui. The colorful light wheels are actually the throne set up by the emperor Yang Guang for his father Yang Jian. They are hung with dragon umbrellas on the banners and there is also a white jade Yulan Bon. The basin is enshrined with a jade tree that is 100 feet tall, and is hung with various jewelry and gold and jade, which are furnished in the Fahua Temple on the south bank of Luoshui.
At night, the Divine Champions and Ullambana were decorated with lamp wheels. The lamp stand was three meters high and was made by He Chou, Shaoqing of Taifu Temple. He Chou was the master of the first machine-making artifacts in the Sui and Tang dynasties. The light wheel he designed moved with the wind, constantly changing its color, dazzling and breathtaking, attracting a large number of people to watch the lights.
Yang Yuanqing was not in the mood to watch the lanterns. He missed his grandfather's funeral, which made him quite regretful. However, Green Tea and his subordinates were excited. He couldn't bear to discourage their enthusiasm. Moreover, Zhongyuan was a Ghost Festival, so he bought a few lotus water lanterns in the South City and led everyone to Luoshui to set the lanterns to express his grief for his grandfather.
There were crowds of people on both sides of the Luoshui River, crowded with people who were lighting up the lights. Tens of thousands of lights were floating on the water, which was extremely spectacular. Ships sailed on the water. The woman sent the lights to put the lanterns into the water, which attracted a lot of shouts on the shore from time to time.
Yang Yuanqing found a little bit of empty space, lit the water lamp, put it down the river, and clasped his hands silently prayed for his grandfather.
At this moment, a few girls suddenly heard behind him, "Minqiu, come here to turn on the lights, there are fewer people here."
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