It's Lantern Festival! It is a tradition of China people to light lanterns and do crossword puzzles on the Lantern Festival. Now every Lantern Festival, there are large and small light shows all over the country! Whether it is a three-day lantern festival or a five-day lantern festival, as long as we come to the Song Dynasty during the lantern festival, we will be surprised to find a spectacle: many people in the Song Dynasty actually put lanterns on their heads, and people walked in the street with lights flashing on their heads.

Jin Yingzhi's "A Talk about the New Drunken Man" contains:

Women also make lanterns for lanterns, which are as big as dates and chestnuts and decorated with pearls. Women in the city compete to wear them.

Skillful craftsmen in the Song Dynasty made lanterns as big as dates and chestnuts, and then decorated them with pearls and jadeite. They are glittering and translucent, and when they are inserted in the hair, they become the most dazzling ornaments. By the time of the Lantern Festival, all the women in the city are wearing such lights on the streets.

Lv Yuanming's Miscellanies at the Age of Years also has similar records:

On the Lantern Festival in Beijing, cooked dates are used to pound charcoal, pills are used as bullets, and Fuxi's iron branches are used to ignite, which is called "fire bayberry", and it is also inserted from the head of a pawn. He also made a lotus peony lamp bowl with a pawn on it.

Ladies wear lights on their heads, so do men. On the Lantern Festival in Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, dajia, a high-ranking official and wealthy businessman, went out, followed by a group of soldiers or followers. They were not only responsible for the safety of their masters, but also helped them to show off their arrogance. How do you show off? Is to put lanterns on your head. There are two kinds of lanterns on their heads, one is a lotus-shaped or peony-shaped lamp bowl, and the other is a "red bayberry" strung with iron branches. Myrica rubra is made by grinding dried dates into powder, pounding charcoal into chips, mixing jujube powder with carbon chips, pouring wax, making balls, stringing them one by one on Cycas, putting them on the fire, putting them on the top of the head, and following their owners to the streets.

Wearing a light on your head may be fun, but it is definitely not safe. In the Song Dynasty, most men didn't shave their heads. Like women, they wear a tall bun on their heads, and a lotus peony lamp bowl or a fiery red bayberry is fixed on the bun. They can only walk carefully and step by step. Take a big step, alas, pulling eggs is a small matter, knocking over lanterns on your head is a big deal. As long as a little naked flame falls on your hair, it will definitely be too late to put out the fire, and your hair will be clean and you will have to become a monk.

Therefore, we modern people only look at the Song Dynasty, never imitate it, and be careful of "burning eyebrows"!