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How to draw a poster for the Lantern Festival

How to draw a poster for the Lantern Festival is as follows:

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of the New Year, the first month of the year, the first night or the Festival of Lights, is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the night "night", the first month of the fifteenth is the first full moon night of the year, so the first month of the fifteenth is called "Lantern Festival".

According to Taoism's "Three Elements", the fifteenth day of the first month is also known as the "Festival of the First Element". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the festive custom of viewing lanterns.

The formation of the Lantern Festival is introduced as follows:

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, rooted in the ancient folk custom of turning on the lanterns to pray for blessings. According to general information and folklore legends, the 15th day of the first lunar month was already emphasized in the Western Han Dynasty, although the 15th day of the first lunar month of the Lantern Festival was really as a national folk festival after the Han Wei Dynasty.

The rise of the custom of burning lamps on the 15th day of the first lunar month is also related to the spread of Buddhism to the east, the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism flourished, the civil servants and the people in general on the 15th day of the first lunar month to burn lamps for the Buddha, and so the Buddhist lamps all over the people, from the Tang Dynasty, the lanterns on the Lantern Festival has become a legal thing.

The Lantern Festival is one of China's traditional festivals. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as Lantern Festival, Lantern Appreciation, Soup Dumplings, Lantern Eating, Lantern Riddles, Fireworks and so on.

In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walkers, rowing dry boats, twisting rice-planting songs, and playing tai ping drums, etc. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as one of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritages.

The development of the Lantern Festival is introduced as follows:

The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty was also an important impetus to the formation of the Lantern Festival. During the Yongping period of the Han Emperor Mingdi, in order to promote Buddhism, the Emperor ordered that "lamps be burned to show the Buddha's presence" in the palaces and temples on the fifteenth night of the first month of the lunar calendar. Therefore, the custom of burning lanterns on the 15th night of the first month of the lunar calendar has gradually expanded in China with the expansion of the influence of Buddhist culture and the later addition of Taoist culture.

North and South Dynasties, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month became a trend. Emperor Wu of Liang was a strong believer in Buddhism, and his palace was decorated with lanterns on the 15th day of the first month. Tang Dynasty, closer cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, Buddhism flourished, the people generally in the first month of the fifteenth day of the "light for Buddha", so the Buddhist lights all over the folk. From the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival has become a legal thing.