Cultural Connotation and Significance of Lantern Festival

Cultural connotation and significance of the Lantern Festival: The Lantern Festival is an ancient carnival in China, which was realized through a series of subversion and breakthrough of daily life order and system norms.

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, which existed in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Lantern Festival viewing began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. He heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lanterns to worship the Buddha, so that all the gentry and ordinary people hung lanterns. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. The festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, from the Central Plains to all parts of the country. ?

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival.

Evolution of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, means offering sacrifices, worshipping gods, exorcising evil spirits and praying for light. There are many kinds of lamps, such as cloth, paper, glass, white jade, wheat silk, bamboo and so on. According to their shapes, there are plum blossoms, lotus flowers, cranes, whales and rabbit lanterns. It is not only beautifully made, but also painted with famous fairy tales and historical stories, which contains rich historical culture, ethics, aesthetic consciousness and values.

At that time, colorful lanterns will be hung in every household, and the light markets, lantern festivals, riddles and lanterns in the streets and alleys will shine brilliantly. Monarchs, ministers and people all go to watch lanterns or solve riddles on lanterns. The inherent spirit of traditional culture, such as respecting heaven and God, taking good advice, promoting righteousness, is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and people are inspired by wisdom.