The origin of hanging red lanterns in Chinese New Year.

The custom of playing lanterns on the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Eastern Han Dynasty advocated Buddhism. He heard that Buddhism has the custom of observing relics and lighting lanterns to worship Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month, so he ordered that lights should be lit in palaces and temples that night so that all gentry and people could hang lanterns.

Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, in order to celebrate the country's prosperity and people's peace, people tied lanterns, symbolizing "lucky dragons, rich people and strong country" with flashing lights. Since then, the custom of playing lanterns has been widely spread.

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Types of lanterns

1, LED lantern

LED lanterns have developed 10 series and more than 80 styles of lanterns, such as luminous dragon bracket cage, luminous Q-shaped dragon bracket lantern, dragon bracket with small lanterns and so on. , and produced a variety of LED lanterns and a variety of oversized LED lanterns.

2. Hongxi Red Lantern

Hongxi red lanterns are assembled lanterns, which are made of environmentally-friendly PP plates and have varied styles. At present, there are eight series of wax gourd, palace lantern, vase, round, square and spring, and more than a dozen lanterns of different sizes.

3, the word surname lamp

One side of the lamp is the surname, and the other side is the official name once owned by the ancestors. For example, the surname Xie is Prince Shaobao, and the surname Zheng is Yanping.

4, auspicious lights

One side of the lamp is the surname or the name of God, and the other side is auspicious patterns such as the Eight Immortals (Lv Dongbin, He Xiangu, etc. ) and Fu Lushou Samsung.

5. Universal type

Like Chinese lanterns and auspicious lanterns, on the one hand, there are surnames, names of gods or auspicious words, on the other hand, there are auspicious patterns.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lantern (Cage Lamp)

Baidu Encyclopedia-Red Lantern (China Traditional Festival Supplies)