Yichuan County Lantern Festival lanterns in which street

Yichuan County Lantern Festival lanterns in downtown Luoyang.

The Lantern Festival is an important traditional festival in China, which is called "Sanyuan" together with the Mid-Yuan Festival and the Lower-Yuan Festival. The reason why it is called the Lantern Festival is because the first month of the lunar calendar is the full moon, and the ancient people often night called "night", so the first month of the fifteenth bit of the Lantern Festival.

Since the Lantern Festival, after the formation of the custom of the Lantern Festival, for thousands of years to the first month of the 15th Lantern Lantern Lantern as a major event. On this night, there are countless people who play and watch the lanterns. Everyone all night long, enjoy the fun, lively

Lanterns are usually divided into chandeliers, lamps, wall lamps, lanterns, several categories, it is with bamboo, silk, silk, bright ball, jade, silk spike, feathers, shells, and other materials, by the color of the zhang, laminating, knotting, embroidery, carving, and then with paper cuttings, paintings and poems, such as decorative production of a comprehensive crafts, but also China's traditional folk handicrafts.