How to write a 500-word essay on Lantern Festival

In my uncle’s village, during the Lantern Festival, there is a custom of dancing dragon lanterns. Their dragon lanterns are called bench dragons. They are made up of many lanterns fixed on wide boards, and then connected one by one. As the dragon body, with the dragon head and tail, it forms a long and beautiful dragon lantern. Bench dragon.

Before the Lantern Festival every year, every household designs and makes lanterns at home. The long bench dragon is composed of hundreds of sections, and there are all kinds of beautiful lanterns. The scene is magnificent.

My grandpa used to make dragon lanterns by himself when he was still alive. First, select very thick wood and cut it into wide planks, and drill holes at both ends of the planks to connect other dragon lanterns in series. Then I design the shape of the lantern, use bamboo strips to make a model of the lantern, buy various colored papers and paste them on the model, and a beautiful dragon lantern is made.

Then fix this beautiful dragon lantern on this wide wooden board, and then after New Year’s Eve, on a certain date agreed upon by everyone, each household will bring the made dragon lantern from home. Come out and line up together on the playground to see whose dragon lantern has the most unique design and whose dragon lantern is the most beautifully decorated. Connect all the dragon lanterns end to end, and that's how Meili's Bench Dragon was born. Of course, the most important thing about a bench dragon is the dragon head. The shapes of the dragon heads are also different. There are Yanglong and Crouching dragons. The faucet of the bench dragon in my uncle's village has an upward-looking faucet. It is usually made by several families working together, and is placed in a fixed position. Some fruits and other things are offered in front of the faucet, which looks relatively good. Holy.

My mother said that in the past, dragon lantern dances were performed to pray for good weather and to allow farmers to have a good harvest in the new year. Nowadays, the dragon lantern dance is performed to enrich everyone's spare time life and enliven the festive atmosphere of the Lantern Festival, with the goal of happiness.