What do you mean by hanging lanterns?

1. Hanging lanterns during the Spring Festival means hanging red lanterns. Every new year, people will wear red lanterns, which symbolizes the meaning of reunion and prosperity.

2. The lanterns in China are also called lanterns. Lanterns originated in the Western Han Dynasty more than 1800 years ago. In fact, in the past, people with conditions would hang lanterns, but red lanterns were usually put on during the Spring Festival and the Yuan Festival. Lanterns are closely related to people's lives in China. There are lanterns everywhere in temples and living rooms. People hang red lanterns symbolizing reunion to create a festive atmosphere. Later, the red lantern became a symbol of happiness for the people of China.

Up to now, with the popularity of electric lights, people seldom use lanterns, so they only hang lanterns around the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival to add to the atmosphere of the Spring Festival.

Because the pronunciation is similar to "Tian Ding", lanterns are also used to pray for children. In the era of Japanese occupation, patriots painted folk stories on lanterns to teach their descendants to know their own culture, so it has the significance of being handed down from generation to generation.