The origin of travel lights

The origin of the Lantern Festival trip: Putian's local interpretation of the Lantern Festival, through thousands of lanterns, will be auspicious and festive Lantern Festival, the meaning of blessing arrival to the world. Zhang Xiang, deputy director of Putian Library, said. As for the origin of Putian tourist lanterns, the literature records are related to Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese war in Putian. He turned on the lights to travel in groups, which created a momentum and scared off the enemy. Some experts also believe that the lantern tour is like the scene of the Torch Festival of Yi people, which should be an ancient style, which originated from the worship of fire by ancient people. At midnight snack, residents lifted the Lantern Bridge to the ancestral hall for centralized connection, commonly known as "group lights". Residents with surnames such as Liu, Lin, Huang, Gan, Wu, Yang and Chen are distributed in the community, and tourist lights are connected into different long queues according to surnames. Faucets with different surnames have different styles, and lights are bridged behind the faucets. At the beginning of the Lantern Tour, gongs and drums clear the way and the "Lantern Dragon" flows. The villagers burned firewood at their doorstep and greeted the Lantern Festival parade with great fanfare. The lights are flashing, the community fire is red, and the "lantern dragon" stretches. When the lantern circle is "Panlong", the dragon head is in front, followed by the dragon body and the dragon tail. From slow to urgent, it circled clockwise, and the combination of motion and motion echoed from beginning to end, pushing the Lantern Festival to a climax.