Song Lantern Customs And Literary Creation

The paper takes documents and materials in each historical period as the core, inquiring into the origin of the Lantern Festival and its development before Song Dynasty. The original meaning of the Lantern Festival is for driving out the evil and praying for having a child.Suiyangdi lighted the lanterns for praying for Buddhism. So, the lantern became the typical symbol of the Lantern Festival. The lantern also had catered to the needs of driving out the evil and praying for having a child among people, so, it prevailed.Customs are the basic patterns of the life and are closely related to the life. So, the paper also discusses the influence of the Lantern Festival' s customs on the creation of poems of Tang Dynasty and poetry of Song Dynasty. As a medium, the Lantern Festival had become the common theme of literature.It also made contributions to poems of Tang Dynasty and poetry of Song Dynasty. Later, the original meaning of the Lantern Festival died out, the Lantern Festival' s storys also changed from the fork object to literature image.