2. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of burning lights to help the moonlight. Nowadays, there is still a custom of burning lamps on the tower with tiles stacked on it in Huguang area. There is a custom of making lantern boats in the south of the Yangtze River. The custom of burning lanterns in modern Mid-Autumn Festival is more prosperous.
3. There is no large lantern festival like Lantern Festival in Mid-Autumn Festival. Playing with lanterns is mainly between families and children.
4. In Nanning, Guangxi, in addition to all kinds of lanterns tied with paper and bamboo for children to play with, there are also very simple grapefruit lanterns, pumpkin lanterns and orange lanterns.
Extended information lantern origin
Lantern is a kind of ancient lamps. As early as the eighth century BC in the Tang Dynasty, the reasons for using lanterns were recorded. There were lanterns in China after Qin and Han Dynasties, and paper lanterns may be after the invention of paper in the Western Han Dynasty.
The custom of watching lanterns on Lantern Festival originated in the early years of the Han Dynasty, but it is also said that Emperor Tang Ming played lanterns in Shangyang Palace on the Lantern Festival to celebrate the peace of the country and the people, and then tied lanterns. With the flickering lights, it symbolizes that "the colorful dragons are auspicious and the people are rich and the country is strong", and the custom of lanterns is still widely popular today.
There are many theories about the origin of playing lanterns. One widely circulated one is that the custom of playing lanterns on the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Zhuang, Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, advocated Buddhism. He heard that there were Buddhist monks who observed Buddhist relics and lit lanterns to worship Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month, so that all the gentry and ordinary people hung lanterns on that night.
Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people and from the Central Plains to the whole country. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, in order to celebrate the country's prosperity and people's security, people tied lanterns, symbolizing "the colorful dragons are auspicious, the people are prosperous and the country is strong" by flickering lights, and the custom of lanterns has been widely popular since then.
There is another interesting folk saying about the origin of playing lanterns. Legend has it that a long time ago, there were many fierce birds and beasts that hurt people and livestock everywhere, so people organized themselves to beat them. A god bird fell to earth because it got lost, but was shot dead by an unsuspecting hunter. When the Emperor of Heaven knew this, he was very angry. He ordered the heavenly soldiers to set fire to the earth on the fifteenth day of the first month, burning all the human and animal property.
The daughter of the Emperor of Heaven is kind-hearted, and can't bear to see the innocent suffering of the people, so she secretly came to the world and told the people the news. A wise man came up with a way. He asked everyone to decorate their homes, light firecrackers and set off fireworks on the 15th, 16th and 17th of the first month, so that the heavenly emperor would think that the heavenly soldiers had let the fire go.
On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the Emperor looked down and found that the world was red and the noise was deafening for three consecutive nights, thinking that it was the flame of the fire. In order to commemorate this success, from now on, every household hangs lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month to commemorate this day.
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