Introduction to lanterns

The 15th day of the first month to stroll lanterns, for lanterns, I believe that everyone will not feel strange. Lanterns, also known as colored lanterns, are a cultural product of the traditional Chinese agricultural era, combining both life functions and artistic features.

Has always been, lanterns are the Han Chinese people thousands of years of important entertainment culture, it rewards the gods and entertains people, both Nuo opera rewards the gods of the function, but also the value of entertainment and entertainment, is the treasure of the Han Chinese folk culture.

Origin of the lanterns, according to legend, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the first month of the lunar calendar on the fifteenth day of the Palace set up an altar to worship the most noble of the gods of the sky at the time of the Taiyi God, held by the all-night, it must be lighted all night illumination, this is the beginning of the Lantern Festival lights; in the Buddhism since the introduction of India into the Middle Kingdom, due to the Taoist fairy art and Buddhism, the lamps of the Buddha's piety and each combined with each other, every first month on the night of the fifteenth, the city and countryside is bright, the scholarly people, all hanging lights, forming a Chinese and Western culture and culture, and the people are the same. All hanging lamps, forming a unique combination of Chinese and Western customs.

Zibo lanterns is one of China's most distinctive handicrafts, but also has been the Lantern Festival customs. Zibo City is also one of the hometowns of traditional Chinese lanterns, in the spring of 1985, CCTV's famous program host Shen Li and his entourage, came here to cover the Lantern Festival, and personally appreciate the charm of Zibo lanterns and the rich cultural heritage of the former capital of Qi, and soon, Zibo lanterns and Zigong lanterns and ride on the CCTV Nine State Square. From then on, Zibo lanterns are famous in China and all over the world, and then there are Zigong dinosaur lamps in the south, and the ice and snow lamps in the north of the city of Harbin, and Zibo lanterns in the east of the saying.

Every Lantern Festival, all kinds of lanterns hanging high on the street colorful. Shengfang lanterns are mostly made of pavilions, birds, fish, insects and flowers. Dyed paper decorated with colorful thin strips made of bright and colorful lanterns stamps. Lanterns are also accompanied by Chinese people through the New Year happy time.