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What are the traditional Chinese festivals to release Kongming lanterns?

In the Lantern Festival Kongming lanterns, also known as sky lanterns, are rumored to have been invented by Zhuge Kongming (i.e. Zhuge Liang) during the Three Kingdoms period. Back then, Zhuge Kongming was besieged by Sima Yi in Yangping, and was unable to send troops out of the city to ask for help. After calculating the direction of the wind, Kongming made a floating paper lantern and tied it with a message of help, and he got out of the danger, so the later generations called this lantern Kongming Lantern. Another theory is that the shape of this lantern is like the hat worn by Zhuge Kongming, hence the name.

Modern people put on the lantern as a blessing. Men, women and children write down their wishes in their own hands to symbolize a good harvest and success, as well as happiness.

About the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors were introduced from Hui'an and Anxi counties of Fujian Province in mainland China to Taiwan's Taipei County, Pingxi Township, and the Tatliu area, which is the upper reaches of the Keelung River. According to the oral accounts of the elders in the Tshiliao area, there were bandits in the Tshiliao area in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, and since it was located in the mountains, the villagers fled to the mountains, and after the bandits had left, those who stayed behind in the villages cast sky lanterns at night as signals to tell the villagers who had taken refuge in the mountains that they could go down the mountains and return home, and also to report to the villagers that they had been safe in such a way. Since the day they returned home from the mountain was the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, which is the Lantern Festival, from then on, every year on the Lantern Festival, the villagers in the very area celebrated by releasing the lanterns and reporting to the neighboring villagers to report to each other that they were safe and sound. The villagers in the region also call the lanterns "praying for blessings" or "peace lanterns".

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