Zigong dinosaur Lantern Festival has a long history.

Lu You, a great poet who served as a county magistrate in Rongzhou (now Rongxian) during the Xichun period of the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 174), left a poem "Farewell to Qin Lou, turn on the lights in the Spring Festival". According to "Rong County Records", "The New Year Lantern Festival in Rong County is very prosperous ... The balcony is a landscape. Villagers call pavilions, and there are several pavilions in a city. There are all kinds of pavilions, and their height is heavy. Gorgeous architectural decoration, combining spring and day, painted with calligraphy and painting, inlaid as a star lamp, a pavilion burning four or five hundred lamps, full of brilliance. West Renye Fang is happy to see it, and so is what Beijing has never seen. " At first, various lantern festival activities in Zigong area were generally sponsored by various temples. During the solar term, these temples will light up red lights and set off firecrackers and fireworks during the Lantern Festival. Good men and women have come to these temples to donate vegetable oil, watch the excitement, pray for God's blessing and exorcise evil spirits. According to the statistics of the late Qing Dynasty, there are 1 208 temples in Zigong, of which the Great Buddha Temple in Rongxian County was built in the Tang Dynasty, and the Guo Sheng Temple, Yala Temple and Ling Ying Temple in Fushun County were built in the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen that the Lantern Festival activities of the Han nationality in Zigong area are widely distributed and rich in customs. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Lantern Festival activities were particularly popular, with diverse styles, increasing types and developing scale. The most popular folk lanterns are palace lanterns and gauze lanterns. These lamps are rich in themes, exquisite and ingenious. They are made of bamboo and wood, and red silk, cloth and paper can be used as lamp clothes. Palace lanterns and gauze lanterns hung in the halls and doorways of rich people should be carefully made. Some are inlaid with gold and jade, some are decorated with colorful spikes, and some are inscribed with poems. Because the gauze lamp is a drum-shaped sphere, it is nailed into a tripod with three "B"-shaped bamboo sticks, hung with three feet apart, so it can be hung with three feet off the ground in the air, closed with three feet, and can be held high by hands. At that time, it was more widely used than palace lanterns, and acrobatics such as dragon lanterns, lion lanterns and lanterns all used gauze lanterns to dance. Lantern Festival such as "Gone with the River Lantern", "Cow Lantern", "Kongming Lantern" and "Lion Lantern Market" are the main lantern festival activities in this historical period. There is also the custom of "respecting the kitchen god" to light a red light, which is also widely circulated among the people. On New Year's Eve (the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month), every household should turn on a red light, and even poor households should hang red paper lanterns in front of their doors. Hanging square eaves lanterns or hexagonal palace lanterns in middle households; The financial house is a big round gauze lamp to show respect for the kitchen god.