The Origin of Kongming Lantern

Legend has it that Zhuge Liang invented it during the Three Kingdoms period. Zhuge Liang was besieged by Sima Yi in Pingyang, and the whole army was helpless. Zhuge Liang came up with a clever plan. Zhuge Liang calculated the wind direction, ordered thousands of blank sheets of paper to be pasted into countless lanterns, and then took them down by the upward gravity of smoke, and the little lanterns rose one by one.

The soldiers in the camp shouted that Mr. Zhuge Liang would break through by sitting in the sky lantern. "Sima Yi actually believed it and led troops to chase the sky lantern, so Zhuge Liang was able to escape, so later generations called this lantern Kongming Lantern."

Modern people put lanterns on Kongming lanterns as a blessing. The wishes of men, women and children to write blessings by hand symbolize the bumper harvest and happiness every year.

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Flying lanterns is a kind of Han folk culture and a festival custom in many parts of China.

Hainan lanterns, also known as Wen lanterns and sky lanterns, are made of white paper paste. According to the principle of hot air balloon, the heat generated by air expansion can be taken away. The fuel it carries can float about 1 hour. At first, it looks like an unknown flying object. After rising to a certain height, it looks like a star.

According to legend, it spread from the mainland to Hainan and evolved into a very distinctive local folk custom. On festive days or grand festivals, people light lanterns to express their good wishes. Before lighting lanterns, people should write down their wishes on the lanterns. Ran Ran will rise to the sky with the lanterns to pray that their wishes can come true.

In the villages around Wenchang, Wanning and Danzhou, there are folk customs of tying lanterns and putting them out. Because the Wenchang accent "Sky Lantern" and "Tianding" are homophonic, the boy family spontaneously formed a "Lantern Delivery Team", using lanterns with auspicious characters, such as male lanterns, human lanterns, hand lanterns, flower basket lanterns, carp lanterns, rare ancient lanterns, etc., beating gongs and drums, and walked around the village to the temple, indicating that they would be sent to "a prosperous population and a prosperous family scene".

When putting the lantern on, pour the oil on the rag with the barrel mouth facing down. After the tarpaulin is lit, the whole paper bucket will be filled with hot air, and the sky lanterns of every household will rise like hot air balloons. Take your blessings and wishes and float into the night sky.