Folklore experts: Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival

9 is the Lantern Festival in the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, also known as the "Lantern Festival", the main feature of the main ornamental lanterns. Folklore experts say, in Chinese many festival guanding activities, but in the most spectacular scenes of the Lantern Festival, the most ambitious.

About Guandeng should begin from the emperor ming. According to the Tianjin Municipal Academy of Social Sciences researcher Wei Luo Shu history, Buddhism China Emperor Mingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty, imperial court, called on people to put the lantern light, to show respect to buddha. The custom of past dynasties, to the Tang and Song Dynasties, reached its zenith. Of course, this also benefited from the emergence of the Eastern Han Dynasty candles, candles and the wide application of the Wei and Jin dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, lantern night, not only the people start to celebrate, even the emperor and empress "from time to time out of the palace lanterns," incognito "or even thousands of people waiting to see the lights".

The Song Dynasty, along with the economy further developed, the city has almost become residents of the night of the Lantern Festival carnival, the traditional culture of the city of light also point to reach the peak of perfection, regardless of the size or the Lantern Festival lighting fantasy, fine of more than the Tang Dynasty, and more folk, folk custom, folk custom more distinctive characteristics.

To the Ming Dynasty, the Lantern Festival activities more development, but also the addition of opera performances. In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu entered the Central Plains, the court canceled the Lantern Festival, but the Lantern Festival is still popular. Although the activities of the Qing Dynasty tours only a short period of three days, but the unprecedented scale of the activities of the lamp. In addition to lighting, but also add to the fun fireworks, and later added the dragon and lion dance, bohanchuan, stilt yangko dance "opera" content.

Folklore experts believe that the Lantern Festival lights and past dynasties, prosperous, bustling, and has a great deal of emperors, advocating participation. Emperors often resort to the pursuit of the enjoyment of the festival light, to discuss the rich folk color.