The significance and symbol of lanterns

Lantern is an important symbol in China culture, bearing profound meanings such as reunion, happiness and auspiciousness, and it is a symbol of people's pursuit of bright, warm and beautiful life in the future.

1, lanterns often carry blessings and auspicious meanings in folk culture. For example, every year when the private school starts in the first month, parents will prepare a lantern for their children, which will be lit by the teacher, symbolizing the bright future of the students. In addition, because "lamp" and "ding" are homophonic, people often use lanterns to pray for family prosperity. In the era of Japanese occupation, lanterns have become a tool for patriots to convey cultural information and teach future generations to know their own culture, so they have the significance of being passed down from generation to generation.

2. Lanterns often give people a festive, warm and bright feeling visually. It symbolizes family reunion and prosperity, and also implies happiness, brightness, vitality, perfection and wealth. During the Spring Festival, lanterns are indispensable auspicious things, which can create a festive atmosphere and place people's good expectations for health, peace and longevity.

3. As a traditional handicraft in China, the design and production of lanterns have rich cultural connotations. For example, the mascot of the Beijing Paralympic Games, "Edelweiss", is designed with lanterns as the prototype, incorporating multicultural elements such as peace, friendship, warmth and tolerance, and showing the concept of mutual learning and harmonious development of world civilizations. The wishful shape of lanterns, continuous patterns, paper-cutting art and main colors all contain rich cultural connotations and symbolic significance.

Lantern, also known as lantern color, is an ancient traditional handicraft in China with a long history and profound cultural heritage. The origin of lanterns can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a history of more than 2,000 years. At first, lanterns were related to Buddhist rituals, used to light lamps to worship Buddha and express people's piety and respect for their beliefs. With the evolution of history, lanterns have gradually developed into an indispensable element in festival activities, especially around the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people hang red lanterns symbolizing reunion to create a festive atmosphere.