How do you spend the Lantern Festival in your hometown?

The customs of the Lantern Festival in your hometown are as follows:

The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is also known as the Lantern Festival of the first night of the first month of the lunar calendar. The Lantern Festival is also known as the Lantern Festival because of the custom of burning lanterns and watching them. It originated in the Qin and Han dynasties, and later developed into the custom of looking at the day and night to watch the lights, to the Tang and Song Dynasty is particularly prosperous. Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ming Emperor period, Ming Emperor advocated Buddhism, heard that the Buddhist monks on the fifteenth day of the first month to see the Buddha's relics, lamps to honor the Buddha's practice, the night of the order in the palace and temples lamps to honor the Buddha, so that the people of the common people are hanging lamps. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival.

The festival has gone through the development process from the palace to the folk, from the Central Plains to the whole country. And about the origin of the Lantern Festival, there are many interesting folk legends. Legend of the 15th day of the first month a long time ago, there is a god bird because of the lost landed on earth, by the hunter shot dead. The emperor was so angry that he ordered his soldiers to set fire to the earth on the 15th day of the first month to burn all the human beings to death. The daughter of the emperor was kind-hearted and could not bear to see the innocent people suffer, so she told the human beings the news.

After hearing this news, an old man thought of a method, he said in the first month of the fourteenth fifteenth and sixteenth of these three days, every family hangs up a red lantern in the house to light firecrackers to set off fireworks.

In this way, the Emperor of Heaven would think that people were burned to death. People thus preserved their lives and property. From then on, every time on the fifteenth day of the first month, every family hangs lanterns and sets off fireworks to commemorate this day. Legend two says that during the Han Dynasty, Dongfang Shuo found a courtesan who wanted to throw herself into a well and asked why. It turned out that the courtesan was named Yuanxiao, and she had not met with her family since she entered the palace.

Thinking of family excessively want to die. Dongfang Shuo heard very sympathetic, and is ready to try to let her and family reunion. So, Dongfang Shuo set up a divination booth on Chang'an Street and said that the 16th day of the first month fire burns the body.