What holiday tradition is the release of lanterns

Flower lanterns are a tradition of the Lantern Festival.

The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, called the Lantern Festival in folklore, has the custom of viewing lanterns. The lantern festival began in Han, flourished in Tang, and flourished in Song. The most prominent landscape of this festival is centered around a series of "light" activities, such as Zhang, race lights, lights, and so on, and therefore also known as the "Festival of Lights.

Watch lanterns, watch lanterns is the Lantern Festival traditional holiday customs. On the night of the 15th day of the first month, the streets and alleys, red lanterns hanging high, animal head lanterns, horse lanterns, flower lanterns, bird and bird lanterns, and so on, to name a few. As described in the words of Xin Qiji, "The east wind releases thousands of flowers at night, and even blows them down, the stars are like rain."

The Lantern Festival, also known as "Shangyuan Festival", is one of the traditional Chinese festivals. One of the symbols of the Lantern Festival is the different shapes and colors of the lanterns. On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns. People enjoy the lanterns, guessing riddles, will continue from the New Year's Eve celebrations, pushed to another climax, and become the custom of generations.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of the New Year, the small first month, the Lantern Festival, or the Lantern Festival, is one of China's traditional festivals, the time of the first month of the lunar calendar for the first fifteen days of the year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth is the first full moon in a year, so the first month of the fifteenth for the "Lantern Festival".

The origin of Lantern Festival lanterns:

Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, as early as 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty Mingdi period, the Ming Emperor, advocating Buddhism, heard that the Buddhist monks on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Buddha's relics, lighted lamps to honor the Buddha's practice, the order of the night in the Imperial Palace and temples lighted lamps to honor the Buddha, so that the people of the civil service are hanging lamps.

Later this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. The festival has gone through a process of development from the palace to the folk, from the Central Plains to the whole country. At the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the 15th day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the festival of "Taiyi God" was set on the 15th day of the first month. (Taiyi: the god who dominates everything in the universe). When Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", the Lantern Festival was already recognized as a major festival.