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The 15th day of the first lunar month is the biggest entertainment festival during the New Year holidays. It is called the Festival of Lights because all the people open their lanterns. And because every family has to eat Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival. China's Taoism called on the Yuan Festival, that is the birth anniversary of the God of Heaven, this day to celebrate, the God of Heaven will give blessings to the people. Folk are generalized and generalized as "the first month of the fifteenth red fire".

On the 15th day of the first month, the lights, can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty believed in Taiyi God, on the fifteenth day of the first month, from dusk onwards, all night long with grand lights to be sacrificed, the first. When Emperor Ming of Han Dynasty, in order to promote Buddhism, and ordered the night of the 15th day and night of the first lunar month in the palace and the temple burning lamps to show Buddha, adding the content of Buddhism. Since then, it has further evolved into a grand folk festival of lights. Han Dynasty lanterns, only one night. Tang Xuanzong extended to three nights. Northern Song Dynasty and extended to five nights. Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, from the beginning of the first month of the eighth night began to open the lights, to the seventeenth night lights, up to ten nights, is the longest period of the festival of lights. The Qing Dynasty changed back to five nights of lights, starting from the evening of the 13th and ending on the evening of the 17th. Republic of China period and shortened to three days, fourteen days for the trial lamp, fifteen days for the main lamp, sixteen days for the residual lamp. Today, the province's Lantern Festival, the county more than three nights, more than one night in rural areas.

The city's colorful and spectacular light show is generally divided into two types of traditional craft lights and modern craft lights.

Traditional craft lamps are mostly made of paper and yarn. Exquisite is a class of horse lanterns. Turning picture, mostly for the Eight Immortals across the sea, the Tang Monk scriptures, the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin heroes and other stories, are taken from the content of the play. Older people tend to watch it and forget about it. Lively is made with a variety of fireworks fireworks. Such as pig eight ring peeing, hen laying eggs, monkeys climbing the pole, the heavenly maiden scattering flowers, fire burning Lianying, cannon hit Liancheng and so on. Lighting even after ringing with explosions, colorful, dynamic and realistic, the most attractive children love to see appreciation. The most common lights are grains, six animals, vegetables, fruits, flowers, birds, animals, fish and insects, and other shapes, more questions riddles, for people to guess. This kind of lamp symbolizes the five grains, six animals prosperous, political and human harmony, the country and the people in peace.

Modern craft lamp is the use of new materials, production of a variety of luxury, bold colored lights, with novelty, technology and other sense of the times, the most young men and women loved. In recent years, many counties in the prevalence of decorative flowers and trees, that is, the trees along the road color dressed up as a harvest season pear tree, with various colors of light bulbs made of fruit, electricity, a pass, green leaves, fruitful, looks very realistic.

Taigu County in the Jinzhong region, the history of the big businessmen more, commercial activities, throughout the country. Lantern Festival lights, especially characteristic. East, south and west of the city, three streets, home lights, pairs. Ten steps around, built a colorful building. The center of the street set up a large God shed, colorful, dazzling. Raw materials for colored lanterns are glass, yarn, satin and so on. Lights are made of rosewood and other hardwood. Thus, the provincial proverb says: "Taigu lights, love death!"

With Taigu and other places in the form of lamps into a marked contrast is the Jincheng City lamp shed. Choose a wide open space, with high poles of colorful cloth built into a large shed, the longest up to five miles. The entrance is a seven-color pagoda, above the arrangement of palace lights, grand and generous. All organs, units, groups, schools made of colored lanterns, are hanging in the shed. The people's personal production of fine arts, can also be displayed in the shed, a showdown. The masses to watch the lights, all come to the shed, people come and go, very lively.