Lantern Festival story 20 words

The story of the Lantern Festival:

1. One year, during the waxing moon, Dongfang Shuo was wandering in the imperial garden, when he found a courtesan was crying sadly by the well, and Dongfang Shuo rushed over to her and asked her why she was so sad.

2. This palace maid was called Yuanxiao, and she had come to the palace for several years, missing her family very much, but unable to go home. Dongfang Shuo comforted her, "Don't be sad, girl, I'll find a way for you to see your family."

3. Dongfang Shuo came to the home of the Yuanxiao girl and said to Yuanxiao's family, "I have an idea that will allow Yuanxiao to be reunited with you." He carefully instructed Yuanxiao's sister and told her what she should do. Dongfang Shuo then dressed up as a fortune teller and went out into the streets, saying, "I have been watching the sky at night, and there is going to be a big fire in the capital!""

4. The people did as Dongfang Shuo said, and when it was nearly dark, the Fire God King really did come from the south on a donkey, dressed in red. Everyone knelt by the roadside to plead with the Fire Goddess, who threw down a letter, saying, "It is the Jade Emperor's will that the capital be burned by fire! You all take this letter to the palace and give it to the Emperor, and you may be spared this disaster."

5. This custom was passed down from year to year, and because the soup dumplings served on the fifteenth day of the first month were made by the girl of the Lantern Festival, the dumplings were also called Lantern Festival, and the fifteenth day of the first month was called Lantern Festival.

6, the first day of the first month of the custom of lanterns also passed down, people in this day show lanterns, guess lantern riddles. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called the Festival of Lights.