There are many kinds of opinions about the origin of lanterns. One of the more widespread sayings is: The custom of lanterns during the Lantern Festival began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Eastern Han Dynasty Emperor Liu Zhuang advocated Buddhism. The Buddha's approach ordered that night to light up the Buddha in palaces and temples that night, so that all the people of the gentry hung the lights. Later, this Buddhist etiquette festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the folk, from the Central Plains to the whole country. In the first year of Tang Kai, in order to celebrate Cathay Pacific's people's security, people tied up lanterns, and by flashing indefinite lights, symbolizing "Cailong Zhaoxiang, Minfu and Guoqiang", the style of lanterns has been widely popular since then.
There is an interesting saying about the origin of lanterns. Legend has it that a long time ago, there were many fierce beasts and beasts, and they hurt people and livestock everywhere. People organized to fight them. A god bird landed on the earth because of getting lost, but was shot and killed by an unknown hunter. The emperor was very angry when he knew it, and ordered to let the soldiers set fire to the world on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and burned all the human and animal properties. The emperor's daughter was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see the people's innocent suffering. She secretly came to the world and told the people the news. A wise man came up with a way to make everyone shine at home, light firecrackers, and set off fireworks on the 15th, 16th, and 17th of the first lunar month. In this way, the emperor would think that the soldiers had already set fire Too. On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Emperor looked down and found that there was a red light on the earth and the sound of the sky shook the sky for three consecutive nights, thinking that it was the flame of the fire. To commemorate this success, every time until the fifteenth day of the first month, every household hangs lanterns to commemorate this day.
