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the 15th day of the first lunlar month is the lantern festival in china .It is a custom to hang red lanterns on the gate. children play with colored lanterns, and people go to streets to view and admire decorative lanterns . It is a custom to hang red lanterns on the gate. Children play with colored lanterns, and people go to streets to view and admire decorative lanterns . It is recorded that lanterns adorned the lantern festival at least 3000 years ago . By the tang dynasty, the court had connected lanterns with buddhism and made the lighting of lanterns at the lantern festival a part of official protocol. Colored lanterns in different regions have their own specific features. Farmers in northern shanbei province make lanterns out of pumpkins ,with materials like cotton in the shape of the lantern. Farmers in northern shanbei province make lanterns out of pumpkins , with materials like cotton in the shape of the head of a goat . In Beijing , which had long been a dynastic capital ,the colored lanterns are mainly in the style of imperial palace lanterns.