The custom of lanterns

From ancient times to the present, it has become a folk custom for every household to celebrate with lanterns and lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month. Hanging red lanterns at the door can not only illuminate during the festival, but also add festive atmosphere, mainly because of the saying of sacrifice. On the fifteenth day of the first month, solve riddles on the lanterns and Qingxu, like other places in China, were also very lively. The local people have a saying that "the first day is fifteen". This sentence fully shows that the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is also the most important and lively festival in a year. Because agricultural production has always been the mainstay, the relatively slack days in a year are "winter March". After the Lantern Festival, the new year is coming, everything is revived, the leisure in winter has gone, and preparations have begun.

Lantern is a traditional folk dance popular in yingde city, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, and it is one of the second batch of intangible cultural heritages in Guangdong Province. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations.

Chaozhou is known as the folk custom of Lantern Festival, and gauze lanterns (lanterns) are the dazzling pearls in the program. Yarn lights are divided into "on-off lights" and "on-off lights". On-off lights fix figures, pavilions and pavilions on the light screen, and the on-off lights are equipped with different mechanisms, so that the head and hands of the figures can rotate and even walk in full screen. The characteristics of gauze lamp are: meticulous technology and beautiful shape.