Lantern introduction has more than 300 words.

Lanterns in China are also called lanterns. Originated in the Western Han Dynasty more than 1800 years ago, red lanterns symbolizing reunion are hung around the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year to create a festive atmosphere. Later, lanterns became a symbol of happiness for the people of China. Through the inheritance and development of lantern artists in past dynasties, colorful varieties and exquisite craftsmanship have been formed. There are palace lanterns, gauze lanterns, chandeliers and so on. From the modeling point of view, there are figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, dragons and phoenixes, fish and insects, etc. Besides, there are lanterns for people to enjoy. Lanterns in China are made of bamboo, wood, rattan, straw, animal horn, metal, silk and other materials produced in various regions, combining painting art, paper cutting, paper binding, acupuncture and other technologies. Palace lanterns and gauze lanterns are the most famous lanterns in ancient China.

Lanterns are closely related to people's lives in China. There are lanterns everywhere in temples and living rooms. After careful calculation, China had lanterns after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and paper lanterns probably after the invention of paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The customs related to lanterns are:

Hanging lamp:

On the eve of Lantern Festival, most people hang lanterns or big red lights in front of their homes and shops to set off the festive atmosphere. Give birth to a boy's home, make or buy lanterns to hang in temples and ancestral halls to show "adding Ding"; Some Dehua people want to slaughter a rooster and add a basket of white scorpions to worship their ancestors.

Send a lamp:

For daughters who get married during the year, parents should buy hydrangea lanterns or lotus lanterns before the festival and send a pair of boys to their son-in-law's house to pray for "marriage" as soon as possible; For those who have no boys after marriage, the bride's family is used to sending "Guanyin to send lanterns", which is called "sending lanterns".

Chen's Chronology of Wenling and Chronology of Shangyuan in the late Qing Dynasty: ... Shangyuan Lantern ... If there is a newly married woman, the woman's family must buy a pair of Bai Furong lanterns and send them to her husband's family. This kind of cloud bodes well for men. ..... Zhang Bingyun Wen: The most important thing is that the woman's family is busy seeing off guests, and she is lucky enough to buy a white lotus lamp. "

Enjoy this lamp:

At midnight, men, women and children flocked to the street to enjoy the lanterns.

Wandering lights:

At midnight snack, children carry spring lanterns, light candles, go door to door, form a lantern parade, and stroll around the lanterns.

Out of the lamp (grab the lamp):

The spring language "light" is homophonic with "Ding", and "light" means "Ding", which means that people are prosperous.

The child accidentally burned the lamp when swimming, which is "outside the lamp". If the red light is burned, it means that a girl has been born; A white light indicates that it is a boy.

Being robbed of light is also "light extinction". In ancient times, during the Lantern Festival, the rich formed a "lantern-walking clan", while the poor who had no money to buy lanterns became a "lantern-grabbing clan". On the street with lanterns, the poor with empty hands laughed at the rich with lanterns with songs: "plum lanterns are not fragrant;" Officer knife lamp, stir the toilet ... "Then rushed up to grab the rich man's lamp, and the robbed rich man was not angry but in high spirits.