Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called "Lantern Festival". In Shanxi's county-level city walls and even towns and villages, these residents are concentrated in busy and lively areas. Before the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets were covered with lanterns, flowers were everywhere and lights were swaying, which reached its climax on the fifteenth night of the first month.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, "watching lanterns" has become a spontaneous activity among Shanxi people. On the fifteenth night of the first month, red lights are hung high in the streets, including palace lanterns, animal lanterns, lanterns, lanterns and bird lanterns, which attract people who look at the lights. In Taiyuan area, the lights in Taigu County are very famous. Taikoo lamp is famous for its variety, exquisite production and beautiful appearance.
Lantern Festival lanterns:
There are many kinds of Lantern Festival lanterns, or image lanterns made by imitating the image of things, such as dragon lanterns, tiger lanterns and rabbit lanterns. Or lanterns adapted from folk stories, such as Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Twenty-four Filial Pieties, etc. It shows the national spirit of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness. Various lanterns are skillfully made, which shows the wisdom and skill of craftsmen.
With the development of the times, the Lantern Festival has become more and more grand, with more and more national characteristics and longer time. The Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty is one day and three days before and after Shangyuan. In the Song Dynasty, two days were added after the 16th National Congress, making it five days. The Ming dynasty extended from the eighth day to the eighteenth day to ten days.
Because of the different lighting periods, the first day of lighting is called "trial lighting", the fifteenth day is called "positive lighting", and the last day is called "residual lighting" and "stop lighting".
Also known as "magic lamp", "human lamp" and "ghost lamp". Fourteen nights is a "magic lamp", which is placed in front of shrines and ancestral halls at home to worship the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty. Fifteen nights are called "human lanterns", which are placed on doors and windows, mattresses, several cases and so on. Avoid scorpions and insects; Sixteen nights are "ghost lights", which are placed in the tombs of Qiu and Yuan Nights to remove ghosts. Pray for God's will, protect Shu Ren, ghosts and beasts, and do everything.