Lanterns are a traditional national art left over from which dynasty?

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival of lights. At this time, all kinds of lanterns are hung on the streets. Shengfang lanterns are mostly made of pavilions, birds, fish, insects and flowers. Xiongxian to dye paper decorated with colorful thin strips made of bright and colorful.

Lanterns, also known as "colored lanterns", is a cultural product of China's traditional agricultural era, both the function of life and artistic characteristics. Lanterns originated from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, set up an altar in the Palace to sacrifice the most noble of the gods of the sky at that time Taiyi God, held throughout the night, it must be lit all night lighting, which is the beginning of the Lantern Festival lighting; in the Buddhism since the introduction of India into the Middle Kingdom, due to the combination of Taoist fairy art and the Buddhist lamps and Buddhist rituals of piety, the night of the 15th of the first month of the first month of the night, urban and rural lights, the scholarly populace, all hanging lamps, the formation of a unique custom of the combination of Chinese and Western. The unique custom of this festival is the combination of the East and the West.

Sui-Dynasty Emperor Yang, the Lantern Festival during the Lantern Festival activities lively roller, night and day, all night long, Zhang Lantern then gradually developed into an important Lantern Festival activities.

The Tang Dynasty rule due to social peace, economic affluence, lanterns are more colorful, flourishing, the scale of the event is quite large, watching the lights of the tide of people, from princes and nobles, down to the peddlers, all out to enjoy the lights. Xuanzong also continued the Western Han Dynasty ban system, the capital Chang'an even in the Lantern Festival before and after the three night curfew canceled, expanding the implementation of the "night", to facilitate the people to enjoy the lanterns, the lanterns after the Tang Dynasty has become an important banner of the Lantern Festival.

The two Song Dynasty, although the country's weakness, this culture has been strongly advocated by the royal family and further developed, so that the Song Dynasty has become another important historical stage of the development of lanterns. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the lanterns were popular, and there were lantern markets in the neighborhoods, selling all kinds of lanterns in a wide variety of styles, competing with each other

The custom of welcoming lanterns at the Lantern Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years, with a wide variety of lanterns in different parts of the country and different styles of lanterns, which are popular in different parts of the country. Taiwan lanterns, commonly known as "drum lamps", were named after the early production of many similar to the shape of a drum and gong, and the popular types are horse lanterns, dice lamps, round lamps, sword lamps, and so on. Since "lantern" and "ding" sound the same in Southern Min dialects, it is generally regarded as a good omen of prosperity for people to carry lanterns. In Taiwan, it is customary for women to walk under the lanterns during the Lantern Festival to pray for a son or daughter in the coming year. In the Hakka villages of Taochu-Miao in the northern part of Taiwan, male children are invited to hang lanterns in the family temples from the eleventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, called "starting lanterns", which is the same as the word "starting lanterns", and it is one of the ceremonies for the newborn male children to join the clan, with a profound and long-lasting meaning.

Lanterns originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, to the Song Dynasty throughout the folk. China's production of lanterns through the ages is very elaborate, many varieties. Such as the Ming Dynasty painter Tang Yin has a poem: "There are lights without the moon is not entertaining, there is a moon without lights do not count the spring, spring to the human heart of the human heart Jade, lights burn the moon under the moon as silver, full of street beads Cui tour of the village women, boiling the land of the pith and song Sai She Shen, less than the Fangzun open mouth smile, how to consume this good time."