Meaning and symbols of hanging lanterns on New Year's Eve

The lantern has since become a symbol of festivity for the Chinese. Hanging lanterns, traditionally believed to have Hong (red) luck when the head of the auspicious symbols, hanging lanterns on the New Year's Eve, basically auspicious patterns and blessings of auspicious words, coupled with the red color of the lantern is vermilion.

Chinese New Year hanging lanterns, refers to hanging red lanterns, every New Year's people are replaced with red lanterns, symbolizing the meaning of reunion, red-hot. Chinese lanterns and collectively known as lanterns. Lanterns originated more than 1,800 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, solemn statement: the answer is for reference only, please do not blind _ superstition.