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Describe and draw a picture of the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar

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In fact, the first fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, as early as 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, Lantern Festival Lantern Appreciation began in the Eastern Han Dynasty Mingdi period, Mingdi advocated 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 night of the day on the order in the Imperial Palace and temples lighted lamps to honor the Buddha, so that the scholarly people have hung 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.

Another theory is that the custom of burning lanterns at the Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "Three Elements"; the 15th day of the first month of the first element festival, the 15th day of the seventh month for the middle element festival, the 15th day of the tenth month for the lower element festival. In charge of the upper, middle and lower three yuan respectively for the sky, earth, human three officials, the heavenly officials happy, so the festival to light.

The Lantern Festival festival period and festival activities, is with the development of history and extend, expand. In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is since the eighth light, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month of the lights, the whole ten days. With the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular. Especially delicate, colorful lights, more so during the Spring Festival to become the climax of the entertainment activities. To the Qing Dynasty, and added a dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilt walkers, twisting rice-planting songs and other "hundred plays" content, just shorten the festival period of four to five days.