A short story about the Lantern Festival in famous novels essay

The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Lantern Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. It is also called Shangyuan Festival, which is the first full moon night of the year. Every year I look forward to this day, because on this day people can eat the delicious Lantern Festival, hang lanterns and set off fireworks. There is also an interesting legend about the Lantern Festival.

Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there were a lot of ferocious birds and beasts that often hurt people and livestock, so people were ready to destroy them. But one day, a god bird came to the earth because it lost its way, but those hunters killed it by mistake. The emperor of heaven knew it and was very angry, so he let the heavenly soldiers come to the earth on the 15th day of the first lunar month to set fire on the earth, and wanted to burn people and animals all to death. The emperor's daughter knew about this, she was kind-hearted to risk her life to tell everyone about it, people are very afraid, and finally a wise old man came up with a good idea, let everyone in the festival of these nights hanging lanterns and fireworks. By the fifteenth day of the first month of the night the emperor looked down from the sky, and found the earth a red light, loud sound of the house seems to be on fire, and for three nights in a row, the emperor thought it was the heavenly soldiers destroyed the earth, and the people dodged a bullet.

In order to commemorate this day, from then on every first month of the 15th Lantern Festival every household to set off fireworks and firecrackers hanging lanterns.