Lantern Festival's Custom And Poetry Of Tang Dynasty

This article discusses several problems of Tang Dynasty's Lantern Festival custom and the creation of the Lantern Festival poetry from the relationship between Tang poetry and folk custom. It regards that the Lantern Festival originated from Han Dynasty's Lantern Festival customary activities such as offering sacrifices to God Taiyi, crossing the bridge and decorating with lanterns, which have strong flavor of reproduction. Any festival at the same age cannot surpass the wide participation and extreme carnival of Tang's Lantern Festival and its Lantern Festival poetry has high value of beauty and folk custom research. It helps us get to know traditional culture and helps us build spiritual civilization under new situation by studying Tang's Lantern Festival custom and Lantern Festival poetry.