Why do you want to carry lanterns to eat Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, is a traditional festival in China. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, which was called "Xiao" by the ancients. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called the Lantern Festival. China has a vast territory and a long history, and the customs about Lantern Festival vary from place to place. Hanging a red light is one of the important customs of the Lantern Festival.

There is such a fairy tale about hanging red lights on the Lantern Festival. In ancient times, a crane came to earth and was shot dead by a hunter. When the Jade Emperor heard this news, he thought that mortals were against the Tao, and arranged for the heavenly soldiers to set fires everywhere on the fifteenth day of the first month to punish mankind. A fairy couldn't bear this disaster, so she secretly tipped off the world and presented a plan: every household hung a red light around the fifteenth day of the first month to confuse the Jade Emperor, hoping that people would escape this disaster. On the eve of the fifteenth day of the first month, a heavenly soldier reported to the Jade Emperor, "Because the crimes committed by human beings have been raging." Looking into the distance, the jade emperor saw that it was really "fire everywhere" (actually lanterns), so he stopped sending heavenly soldiers and generals to retaliate against the world. In order to commemorate the escape from this disaster, the custom of hanging red lights on the fifteenth day of the first month has been passed down to this day.