River lanterns are a traditional custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. They can not only pin people's thoughts on their ancestors, but also mean that bad luck will never return with the passing water. River lanterns are also called "lotus lanterns". Generally, lights or candles are placed on the base, and they are placed in rivers, lakes and seas during the Mid-Autumn Festival, allowing them to float. The function of river lanterns is to drown ghosts and other ghosts in Purdue water.
This ancient custom originated in Liang Wudi during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. At that time, only monks set off river lanterns in the release pool, which was later spread to the people. It has become a beautiful custom for people to express their thoughts for their dead relatives and their blessings for the living. In Song Dynasty, it was stipulated that the Mid-Autumn Festival would burn river lanterns, support lonely souls, set fire to burners, and perform a series of performances. Since then, the Lantern Festival has been held every July and a half, and it has become popular all over the country with the spread of Taoism and Buddhism. On this day, people set up wine bowls at home, burn paper money to worship their ancestors, and go to temples and Taoist temples to participate in sacrificial ceremonies or Dojo activities such as putting out river lanterns.
There is a saying that many orphans drowned in river lanterns often pull people into the water to drown in order to be reborn, in exchange for the qualification to be reborn. Folk people use "river lanterns" to cross over for them, hoping that these water ghosts can be reborn as soon as possible and no longer suffer, so as not to harm the world. Legend has it that the rivers on the earth are connected with the rivers in the ghost town of Fengdu, and people bring their thoughts of their ancestors and words to the bodhisattva of the earth treasure to the underworld through river lanterns.