Introduction of Kongming lanterns

Kongming lanterns are also called sky lanterns, commonly known as wishing lanterns, also known as praying lanterns. Is an ancient Han handicrafts, in ancient times more military purposes. Modern people put the Kongming lanterns more as a blessing of the use. Men, women and children write down their wishes with their own hands to symbolize the success of the harvest and happiness every year. Generally, they are released on the Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other major festivals. According to legend, during the Five Dynasties (907-960 A.D.), a woman named Xin Qiniang, along with her husband, fought a war in Fujian, she used bamboo gimlets tied into a square frame, glued with paper, made into a large lamp, the chassis placed on the burning turpentine, the lamps rely on the hot air to fly up into the sky, used as a military liaison signals. This turpentine lamp, in Sichuan called Kongming lantern. The shape of this lantern like Zhu Geliang wearing a hat, hence the name. Another theory is rumored to be invented by Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms. Back then, Zhuge Liang was besieged in Pingyang, unable to send troops out of the city to ask for help. Kong Ming calculated the wind direction, made of paper lanterns will float, tied on the message of help, and then really get out of danger, so the later generations will call this lantern for the Kongming lantern.