Wuyuan Folk Custom: Lantern Festival

Lantern, commonly known as? Welcome to the light? It is the most popular traditional art in Wuyuan. In Wuyuan dialect, lanterns are the same as Ding, and welcoming lanterns means wishing people prosperity and celebrating good luck. There are many kinds of lanterns in Wuyuan, including lanterns, dragon lanterns, lanterns, lion lanterns, tower lanterns, boat lanterns and osmanthus lanterns.

Dragon lanterns are divided into board dragon lanterns, incense dragon lanterns and rolling dragon lanterns.

Dragon lanterns are made up of dozens or hundreds of slab bridges connected by movable wedges. Each slab bridge is equipped with two colored lights or lanterns to form a dragon body, and the dragon head and tail are decorated with colored paper.

Dragon lanterns are tied into a cylindrical shape with bamboo bones, covered with cloth, painted or scaled into a dragon shape.

Welcome board dragon lanterns and rolling dragon lanterns are mostly held in the first month of the lunar calendar, with thirteen lanterns, fifteen noisy lanterns and eighteen round lanterns.

Incense lantern is a dragon tied with straw and woven with incense. It rolls like a fire dragon when swimming, and is made into the form of a mythical figure in the calendar by inserting incense into plantains, pumpkins and eggplant? Character incense lamp? Don't have a taste. It is usually held in the Mid-Autumn Festival.