The origin and legend of Lantern Festival.

The Origin of Lantern Festival: A Selection of 30 Words

The first month is January, and the ancients called the night "Xiao". The fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as "Shangyuan Festival", according to the folk tradition in China, the moon is high in the sky and there are thousands of lanterns on the ground on the holiday night of returning to the Yuan Dynasty in spring, so people can watch lanterns, solve riddles on lanterns, eat Yuanxiao and get together with their families.

20-word selection of Lantern Festival legend

Lantern Festival began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. It is said that on the fifteenth day of the first month, the monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship Buddha, so they ordered to light lamps to worship Buddha in palaces and temples that night, so that all cremated people and ordinary people could hang lamps. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival.