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The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, as early as more than 2000 years ago in the western han dynasty, the Lantern Festival began in the eastern han dynasty Ming emperor period, the Ming emperor advocated Buddhism, heard that Buddhism on the 15th day of the first lunar month monks view buddhist relics, the practice of lighting up the Buddha, on the order of this day night in the imperial palace and temples lighting up the Buddha, so that the common people are hanging lanterns. Later, this kind of buddhist ritual festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. The festival experienced from the court to the folk, from the central plains to the national development process.
Emperor wen of the han dynasty had ordered the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to be the Lantern Festival. During the reign of emperor wudi of the han dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "taiyi god" were held on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The god who rules the universe. Sima qian created "too early calendar", the Lantern Festival has been identified as a major festival.
Another said that the Lantern Festival custom originated from Taoism "three yuan said"; The 15th day of the first month is the shangyuan festival, the 15th day of the seventh month is the zhongyuan festival, and the 15th day of the tenth month is the next yuan festival. In charge of the above, in, under the three yuan respectively for heaven, earth, people three official, heaven official joy, so the Lantern Festival to light.
The Lantern Festival festival and popular activities, with the development of history and extension. In terms of the length of the festival, the han dynasty is only one day, to the tang dynasty has been three days, the song dynasty is as long as five days, the Ming dynasty is from the eighth day of the lights, until the 17th night of the first month to fall lights, a full ten days. With the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, lively, burning lights at night, spectacular. In particular, the exquisite, colorful lights, but also make it become the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. To the qing dynasty, and increased the dragon dance, lion dance, land boat, walking on stilts, yangko dance and other "baixi" content, but the festival shortened to four to five days.