Why do you want to see lanterns on the Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival lighting activities originated in the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wen of Han believed in Buddhism, and Buddhism had the custom of lighting lamps to worship Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month. Emperor Wen of Han stipulated that the whole country should light lamps to worship Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month, and later it gradually evolved into the custom of watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival. China's lanterns are very exquisite and varied.

During the Sui Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was very lively, and the Tang Dynasty further expanded this activity. At that time, the country was rich, people had more entertainment activities, and the Lantern Festival lighting activities were very prosperous. Besides lanterns, the Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty also includes fireworks, riddles and other recreational activities.

The custom of watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival is still inherited and preserved. Holding Lantern Festival is a festival custom with traditional cultural characteristics, and lantern art is also a treasure of folk culture.

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The Lantern Festival is getting more and more grand, the national characteristics are getting stronger and stronger, and the Lantern Festival is getting longer and longer. The Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty is one day and three days before and after Shangyuan. In the Song Dynasty, two days were added after the 16th National Congress, making it five days. The Ming dynasty extended from the eighth day to the eighteenth day to ten days.

Because of the different lighting periods, the first day of lighting is called "trial lighting", the fifteenth day is called "positive lighting", and the last day is called "residual lighting" and "stop lighting". Also known as "magic lamp", "human lamp" and "ghost lamp". Fourteen nights is a "magic lamp", which is placed in front of shrines and ancestral halls at home to worship the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.

It is called "people's lamp" at the fifteenth night and placed on doors and windows, bedspreads, several cases and so on. Avoid scorpions and insects; Sixteen nights are "ghost lights", which are placed in the tombs of Qiu and Yuan Nights to remove ghosts. Pray for God's will, protect Shu Ren, ghosts and beasts, and do everything.