Why do we carry lanterns on Mid-Autumn Festival?

Presenting lanterns at Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival". It is also known as "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival" because it means that the lanterns will be erected high up in the air.

Children, with the assistance of their parents, use bamboo paper to tie up rabbit lanterns, poplar lanterns, or square lanterns, hung horizontally on short poles, and then erected on high poles, high technology, colorful light shines, adding another scene for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The children compete with each other to see who can erect the highest and most elaborate lanterns.

Additionally, there are sky lanterns, that is, the Kongming lanterns, paper tied into a large-shaped lamp, candle burning under the lamp, hot air upward, so that the lamps flying in the air, attracting laughter and chasing. In addition, there are children's hand-held lanterns in the moon under the play to enjoy. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, each family to use bamboo strips to tie lamps, lamps of a variety of lines, fish and dragon lamps, bird and animal lamps, flower and fruit lamps, etc., but also can be built into the "He Mid-Autumn Festival" and other word lamps.

At night, in the lamp within the candle, and then linked below many small lamps, colorful flags, silver bells, etc., with a rope tied to a bamboo pole, erected on the eaves or terrace, or small lamps made into characters or all kinds of shapes, hanging in the house on the high places, such as platforms, roofs, or above the tall trees. At night, the city is full of lights, such as stars, and the bright moon in the sky, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Other Customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival

1, Burning Lanterns

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was customary to burn lanterns to help the moon shine. Nowadays, there is still the custom of lighting lamps on towers with tiles stacked on top of them. In the south of the Yangtze River, there is the custom of making lantern boats. In recent times, the custom of burning lamps on the Mid-Autumn Festival has become more prevalent. Mid-Autumn Festival night, lights burning candles, tied to bamboo poles, tile eaves, terrace and other high places, commonly known as "tree in the autumn" or "vertical in the autumn".

2, riddles

Mid-Autumn Moon night in the public **** place hanging many lanterns, people are gathered together, guess the riddles written on the lanterns, because most young men and women favorite activities, but also in these activities on the love story, so mid-autumn riddles are also derived from a form of men and women in love.

The above references? Baidu Encyclopedia - Mid-Autumn Festival Folklore