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The origin and legend of Lantern Festival.
The Origin of Lantern Festival: A Selection of 30 Words

The first month is January, the ancients called the night "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as "Shangyuan Festival", according to the folk tradition in China, on the festival night of the reunification of the Yuan Dynasty in spring returns, the moon is high in the sky, and there are thousands of lanterns on the ground, so people can watch the lanterns, have solve riddles on the lanterns and have Yuanxiao, and have a family reunion.

20-word selection of the legend of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Ming Di advocated Buddhism. I heard that on the 15th day of the first month of the first month, monks observed Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship Buddha, so they ordered to light lamps to worship Buddha in palaces and temples that night, so that all the cremation and ordinary people hung lamps. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival.