How about 30 words on the origin of the Lantern Festival?

The origin of the Lantern Festival in 30 words is: Legend has it that in ancient times, a sacred bird was shot dead by a hunter. The Emperor of Heaven knew of the shock and ordered the heavenly soldiers to come to earth on the 15th day of the first month to set fire to it.

The daughter of the emperor of heaven to inform the earth of this matter, there is an old man out of the law: the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth day of the first month of the three days, red lanterns, light firecrackers, fireworks. In this way, the emperor of heaven will think that people are burned to death.

Later, the heavenly soldiers found a red light on the earth and thought it was the flames of a big burning fire, so they reported to the Heavenly Emperor that they did not have to go down to the earth to set fire to it. People thus preserved their lives and property. In order to commemorate this success, from then on every first month of the fifteenth, every family hangs lanterns, fireworks to commemorate this day.

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The period of the Lantern Festival and its festivals and activities have been extended and expanded with the development of history.

In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty is only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is from the eighth light, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month of the lights, is the longest in Chinese history, and the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, burning lights at night, spectacular.

Specifically, the elaborate and colorful lanterns made it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. To the Qing Dynasty, and increased the dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilt walkers, twisting rice-planting songs and other "hundred theater" content, just shortened the festival period of four to five days.