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Lantern Festival Is Also Called Chinese Valentine's Day

By Daisy Lee

2014-01-25 00:00:00

　　Lantern Festival is a very romantic festival. In the feudal traditional society, Lantern Festival parade provides an opportunity for single men and women to know each other, because in the traditional society, girls are not allowed to go out and play, but they can go out with friends during the festivals. Enjoying the beautiful lanterns on Lantern Festival is just a good chance to make friends. Unmarried men and women can look for their mates while enjoying the lanterns. During the Lantern festival, young men and women would also have the opportunity to meet their lovers.
 


 

　　In Taiwan, there is a traditional custom that if unmarried women pick green onions and vegetables, they will get marry with a good husband. It is said, “Stealing green onions, marrying good husband” “stealing vegetables, having a good husband”. Girls who want to have a happy marriage would steal onions or vegetables in garden to expect a happy family in the future. In Tang Dynasty, there are also performances of dancing and acrobatics on that day. Millions of palace maids and folk girls would sing and dance in the lantern light, which is called dancing accompanied by singing.


Ou Yangxiu (To “Fresh Berries”) has said, “Last year at the Lantern Festival, the flower-market lights were bright as day; when the moon mounted to the tops of the willows, two lovers kept their tryst after the yellow dusk.” Xin Qiji (Qing Yu An) has said, “A thousand times I search for her in the crowd, discover her where the lantern lights are dim.” These all are words describing the night of Lantern Festival. In traditional operas, Chen San and Wu Niang met and fell in love at first sight when they enjoying the lanterns; princess Lechang and Xu Deyan reunited on Lantern Festival night; in “Sing Lantern Riddles”, the relationship between Yuwen Yan and Ying Niang was also determined on this day. Therefore, Lantern Festival is also called Chinese Valentines Day.

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