Hanging riddles on lanterns has always been a tradition in China. What is the origin of lanterns?

Legend has it that a long time ago, there were many fierce birds and beasts everywhere that hurt people and livestock, so people organized to defeat them. A god bird fell into the world because it got lost, but was shot by an unsuspecting hunter.

When the Emperor of Heaven found out, he was very angry. He ordered the heavenly soldiers to set fire to the ground on the fifteenth day of the first month, burning all the property of people and animals. The daughter of the Emperor of Heaven was kind-hearted, and could not bear to see the innocent suffering of the people, so she secretly came to the world and told the people the news.

A wise man came up with an idea. He asked everyone to decorate their homes, set off firecrackers and set off fireworks on the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth day of the first month, so that the heavenly emperor thought that the heavenly soldiers would set fire to it.

On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the emperor looked down and found that for three consecutive nights, the world was red and the noise was deafening, thinking it was the flame of fire.

In order to commemorate this success, from now on, every household will hang lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month to commemorate this day.