Lantern Festival customs: why hang up red lanterns on the Lantern Festival

Red lanterns are hung on the Lantern Festival day, in order to add light and color to the festive day and pray for peace.

Lanterns are a product of traditional Chinese culture in ancient times, with both life functions and artistic features. Lanterns are the Chinese nation for thousands of years important entertainment culture, it entertains the gods, both "Nuo opera" pay God's function, but also entertaining entertainment value, the modern society in the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other festivals hanging, for the festivals to brighten the happy days, praying for peace.

Chinese lanterns is a variety of techniques, a variety of crafts, a variety of decorative techniques, a variety of materials for the production of a comprehensive art, in the many exquisite lanterns, can be divided into two broad categories:

One is a thousand dynamic performances lanterns, such as the dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, horse lanterns, carp lanterns, mussel lamps, etc.;

The second is a wide range of static ornamental lanterns, such as the Su lamp, Taigu Lantern, Yangzhou Melon Lantern, Foshan Pomelo Peel Lantern, Palace Lantern and so on, which are skillful and beautiful.

Lanterns are usually divided into seat lamps, wall lamps, chandeliers, lanterns, etc., which are made of bamboo and wood, damask, silk, ball, silk, feathers, jade, shells and other materials, through the color tie, laminating, knotting, embroidery, carving, and then with paper-cutting, painting and poetry and other decorative crafts, but also is China's traditional folk handicrafts.