Origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a remnant of the ancient custom of honoring the moon. According to the "Zhou Rites - Spring Officials" records, the Zhou Dynasty, there has been a "Mid-Autumn Night to welcome the cold", "Mid-Autumn Offering Liang Qiu", "Autumn Equinox Eve Moon (moon worship)" activities; the Han Dynasty, but also in the Mid-Autumn or Autumn Festival Day Han Dynasty, and on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival or the first day of the Autumn Festival, to honor the old, old age, given to Xiong rough cake. Jin also have the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, but not too common; until the Tang Dynasty will be the Mid-Autumn Festival and the storage of e moon, Wu Gang fell laurel, Jade Rabbit pounding medicine, Yang Guifei into the moon god, Tang Ming Huang tour of the Moon Palace and other myths combined, so that it is full of romantic colors, play the wind of the moon before the great rise.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the 15th of August was officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there was a festival food of "small cakes like chewing the moon, with crispy and syrupy". Meng Yuanlao "Tokyo Dreaming Records" said: "Mid-Autumn Festival night, the noble family decorative pavilions, the folk fight to take over the restaurant to play the moon"; and "the string heavy boiling, near the residents of Naiyen, late at night when I heard the sound of the sheng yao, like the clouds outside. Between the children, even the night wedding play; night market parallel, to the dawn." Wu Zimu "dream beam record" said: "this time the golden phoenix recommended cool, jade dew cool, Dan Gui fragrance, silver toad full of light. Princes, grandchildren, rich families, all climbed the dangerous building, playing with the moon in front of the Xuanxuan, or open the wide pavilion, tortoise feasts lined up, the zither clanging, drinking wine and singing, in order to divine the joy of the night. As for the house of the store, also climbed a small platform, arrange family feasts, the group around the children, to reward the festival. Although the poor basket of people in the ugly alleys, the farmers city wine, reluctantly welcome the joy, and refused to waste time. This night, the sky street selling and buying, until five drums, play the moon tourists, granny in the city, to burn endless." More interestingly, the "new Drunkard's Record" describes the custom of moon worship: "The children of the people of the city are not rich or poor, but can walk on their own to twelve or thirteen, and all of them are decorated with adult's eyes, and they climb up the stairs or burn incense in the atrium to worship the moon, and each of them has its own direction; the men would like to walk to the Toad Palace and climb up to the Immortal Laurel. ...The women would like to look like Chang'e and be as round as the moon."
Ming and Qing dynasties of the moon activities, prevalent. "The fruit and cakes of the festival must be round"; every family must set up a "moonlight place" and "pay homage to the moon" in the direction of the moonrise. Lu Qihong, "Beijing Years of Chinese Records", "Mid-Autumn Festival night, people set up the Moon Palace Fu image, Fu on the free as a person standing; Chen fruits and melons in the court, the cake surface painted Moon Palace toad free; men and women worship burn incense, Dan and burned." Tian Rucheng "West Lake Tourism Zhiyu" cloud: "is the night, people have a moonlight feast, or with the Park Lake boat, along the tour through the dawn. Above the Su Causeway, the joint song, no different from the day"; "folk invited to the moon cake, take the meaning of reunion." Fucha Dun Chong "Yanjing times" said: "mid-autumn mooncake, before the door to the beauty of the Zhimai for the first in Kyoto, other places are not enough to eat. Presented to the moon moon cake everywhere. Bigger than a foot, painted on the moon palace wax rabbit shape." "every Mid-Autumn Festival, the House of Jumon all to moon cakes and fruit gifts. When the moon is full on the fifteenth day of the month, fruits and melons are displayed in the courtroom for the moon and sacrificed to the hairy bean and the cockle flower. At that time, the white spirit is in the sky, the colorful clouds are scattered, pass the cups and wash the marigolds, the children are noisy, so-called festivals. The only thing is that men do not bow to the moon when it is offered." At the same time, in the past five hundred years, there were also "burning incense", "walking on the moon", "releasing lanterns", "tree mid-autumn festival", "lighting pagoda lanterns", "burning incense", "walking on the moon", "releasing lanterns", "tree mid-autumn festival", and "lighting pagoda lanterns". The festival activities include "Moonwalking", "Release of Sky Lanterns", "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival", "Lighting of Pagoda Lanterns", "Dance of the Fire Dragon", "Trailing of Stones", and "Selling of Rabbits". The custom of enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes and having a reunion dinner has been passed down to this day.
Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival
According to the Records of the Grand Historian (史记), Qu Yuan was a minister of King Huai of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated for the promotion of the virtuous and the capable, the enrichment of the country and the strengthening of the army, and strongly advocated the alliance of Qi against Qin, which was strongly opposed by the aristocrat Zilan and others, Qu Yuan was gluttonously dismissed from his post, driven out of the capital city, and was exiled to the Yuan and Xiang basins. During his exile, he wrote such immortal poems as "Li Sao", "Heavenly Questions" and "Nine Songs", which are unique and far-reaching (thus, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Poets' Festival). In 278 B.C., the Qin army attacked the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan saw his motherland being invaded, and his heart was cut to pieces, but he could not bear to give up his motherland, and on the 5th of May, after writing his final poem "Huai Sha", he threw himself into Miluo River and died, composing a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.
Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were in mourning and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to him. Fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out for Qu Yuan prepared rice balls, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, said that the fish and lobsters and crabs eat enough, will not go to bite the body of Dr. Qu. People see have followed suit. An old physician to bring a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear of rice balls for the dragon to eat, people came up with a neem leaf wrapped rice, wrapped in colorful silk, the development of brown.
After that, on the fifth day of the fifth month of every year, there is a dragon boat race, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine custom; in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
Originally in honor of Wu Zixu
The second legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is widely circulated around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, commemorates Wu Zixu during the Spring and Autumn Period (770 - 476 BC). Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, had his father and brother killed by the king of Chu. Later, Wu Zixu abandoned his darkness and ran to Wu to help Wu conquer Chu, and entered Ying City, the capital of Chu, in five battles. At that time, King Ping of Chu had already died, and Zixu dug up his grave and whipped his body 300 times to avenge the killing of his father and brother. After the death of King Helu of Wu, his son Fu Chai succeeded to the throne. The Wu army had high morale and won a hundred battles, and the Yue kingdom was greatly defeated, and King Goujian of Yue asked for peace, which Fu Chai agreed to. Zixu suggested that the state of Yue should be completely destroyed, but Fu-chai refused to listen to him, and Wu's Dazai, who had been bribed by the state of Yue, framed Zixu with slanderous rumors, and Fu-chai believed him and gave Zixu a sword, which he used to kill himself. Zixu was a loyal and good man, and he looked upon death as a homecoming. Before his death, he said to his neighbors, "When I die, I will dig out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Wu Jing to see the Vietnamese army enter the city to destroy Wu", and then he cut his own throat, and Fu Cai was furious, and he ordered to take the body of Zixu and put it into a leather bag to throw it into a big river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, so it was said that the Dragon Boat Festival was also the day to commemorate Wu Zixu.
The third legend of the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Cao E, a filial daughter who saved her father's life and threw herself into the river during the Eastern Han Dynasty (23 - 220 A.D.). Cao E was a Shangyu people in the Eastern Han Dynasty, his father drowned in the river, a few days to see the body, the filial daughter of Cao E was only fourteen years old, day and night along the river crying. After seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on May 5, and carried her father's body out five days later. The story was passed down as a myth, and the story was passed down to the governor of the county, who made Dushan erect a monument for it, and had his disciple Handan Chun write a eulogy in praise of it.
The tomb of Cao E, a filial daughter, is located in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and the monument to Cao E is said to have been written by Wang Yi of the Jin Dynasty. To commemorate Cao E's filial piety, a Cao E Temple was built at the place where Cao E threw herself into the river, the village where she lived was renamed Cao E Town, and the place where Cao E died for her father was named Cao E River.
Originally from the ancient Vietnamese national totem sacrifices
Many recent excavations and archaeological studies have confirmed that: the vast area of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, in the Neolithic era, there is a geometric printed ceramic as a characteristic of the cultural remains. The remains of the clan, according to experts deduced that it is a tribe that worships the totem of the dragon ---- historically known as the Baiyue tribe. The decorations on the excavated pottery and historical legends show that they have the custom of breaking hair and tattooing, living in the water countryside, comparing themselves to the descendants of the dragon. Their production tools, a large number of stone tools, but also shovels, chisels and other small pieces of bronze. As a living thing in the altar pots and jars, cooking food printed pots are unique to them, is one of the symbols of their ethnic groups. Until the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were still Baiyue people, and the Dragon Boat Festival was the festival they created for ancestor worship. Over thousands of years of history, most of the Baiyue people have integrated into the Han Chinese, while the rest have evolved into many ethnic minorities in the south, making the Dragon Boat Festival a festival for the entire Chinese nation. In Qu Yuan's "Faraway Journey", he wrote: "Setting the Chongyang into the emperor's palace, creating the beginning of ten years and observing the Qingdu". The word "Chongyang" here refers to the day, not yet to the festival. Cao Pi, the Emperor of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, in his "Book of the Ninth Day and Zhong Yao", clearly wrote about the Chongyang feast: "The years go by and the months come and go, and suddenly it is the ninth day of the ninth month. Nine is the number of yang, and the sun and the moon should be together, so the common people honored its name and thought it was suitable for a long time, so they used it to enjoy the banquet."
Tao Yuanming, a literati of the Jin Dynasty, said in the preface to the poem "Nine Days of Idleness": "I live in idleness, love the name of the ninth. Autumn chrysanthemums fill the garden, while holding the mash by and by, empty clothing nine Chinese, sends the mind to the words." Here both chrysanthemum and wine are mentioned. Probably in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Chongyang Day has been the practice of drinking wine, chrysanthemum appreciation. By the Tang Dynasty Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival.
During the Ming Dynasty, on the 9th day of the 9th month, the whole palace had to eat flower cakes together to celebrate the occasion, and the emperor had to climb to Mount Banzai in person in order to enjoy the autumn spirit, a custom that was passed down until the Qing Dynasty.
The legend of Chongyang Festival
Like most traditional festivals, Chongyang Festival also has an ancient legend.
Legend has it that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a plague demon in the River Ru, and whenever it appeared, people fell ill in every house and died every day, and the people in the area suffered from the plague demon's ravages.
A plague claimed the parents of a young man, Hengjing, and he himself was nearly killed by the disease. After recovering from the disease, he left his beloved wife and his folks, and resolved to go out and visit the immortals to learn the art of ridding the people of the plague. Hengjing went around to visit the famous masters and masters, and finally found out that there is the oldest mountain in the east, and there is an immortal with infinite magic power on the mountain. Hengjing, undaunted by the difficulties and dangers and the long distance, was guided by the crane, and finally found the mountain, and the immortal with the magical magic power. Hengjing was touched by his spirit and finally took him in and taught him the art of demon-slaying. Hengjing was able to practice hard and sleeplessly, and finally developed an extraordinary martial arts skill.
This day, the fairy chief called Hengjing to him and said, "Tomorrow is the ninth day of the ninth month, the plague demon will come out to do evil again, you have learned your skill, you should go back to do away with the evil for the people". He gave Hengjing a packet of cornelian cherry leaves and a cup of chrysanthemum wine, and taught Hengjing how to avoid the evil spirits, so that Hengjing could ride a crane and hurry back home.
Hengjing returned to his hometown, and on the morning of the ninth day of the ninth month, he led the townspeople to a nearby mountain according to the immortal chief's instructions, and gave each of them a piece of cornelian cherry leaf, a cup of chrysanthemum wine, and made preparations to subdue the evil spirits. At noon, with a few screams, the plague of the devil rushed out of the Ru River, but the plague of the devil just jumped to the bottom of the mountain, suddenly smelled a burst of cornelian cherry and chrysanthemum wine, will stop, face suddenly changed, then Hengjing holding demon sword chased down the mountain, a few rounds on the Wen devil stabbed to death under the sword, from the first nine days of September to climb up to the custom of avoiding the epidemic year after year passed down. Wu Jun, a native of Liang, wrote about this in his book Qi Harmonious Records.
The custom of ascending the heights on the Chongyang Festival was later regarded as an activity to avoid disasters and calamities. In addition, in the traditional concept of the Central Plains people, the double-nine is also the meaning of long life, health and longevity, so later Chongyang Festival was established as the festival of the elderly.
The two origins of the Spring Festival
One theory is:
Legend has it that in ancient China, there was a monster called "Nian", which had a long tentacled head and was ferocious. "It lived at the bottom of the sea for many years and came ashore on New Year's Eve to devour livestock and hurt people.
Therefore, on New Year's Eve, people in villages and hamlets fled to the mountains to escape from the Nian beast.
This New Year's Eve, Peach Blossom Village, the people are supporting the old and young to take refuge in the mountains, from the village came a begging old man, see his hand on crutches, arm with a bag, silver beard flowing, eyes like a star.
The townspeople have sealed the windows and locked the door, some packing, some cattle and sheep, everywhere people shouted and hissed, a scene of panic in a hurry. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't want to be a part of it, but I'd like to be a part of it.
Only an old woman at the east end of the village gave the old man some food and advised him to go to the mountains to avoid the "New Year" beasts, the old man stroked his beard and laughed: "If you let me stay at home for a night, I will definitely "New Year" beasts away.
The old woman looked at him with astonished eyes, and saw that he had hair, hale and hearty, extraordinary. But she still continue to persuade, begging the old man smiled but did not say. The old woman had no choice but to leave her home behind and take refuge in the mountains.
In the middle of the night, the "New Year" beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from that of previous years: the old lady's house at the east end of the village had a big red paper on the door, and the house was ablaze with fire. "The beast shuddered and gave a strange cry.
"The year" stared angrily at the grandmother's house for a moment, then screamed furiously and pounced on her. Close to the door, the yard suddenly came "bang, bang, bang, bang," the sound of explosions, "year" trembling, and do not dare to come forward. It turns out that Nian is afraid of the color red, fire and explosions. At this time, the door of the mother-in-law's house was wide open, only to see an old man wearing a red robe in the yard laughing. The "Nian" was shocked and fled in a panic.
The next day was the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and the people who had returned from their refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. It was then that the old woman realized what had happened, and rushed to the townspeople to tell them about the old man's promise.
The townspeople flocked to the old lady's house, only to see the old lady's house door with red paper, a pile of unburned bamboo in the yard is still in the "snapping" explosion, a few red wax candles inside the house is still glowing with the remaining light ......
The ecstatic townspeople to celebrate the The right auspicious arrival, have changed into new clothes and wear new hats, to friends and relatives to say goodbye. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, people know the way to drive away the "New Year" beast.
From then on, every year on New Year's Eve, every family puts up red couplets and sets off firecrackers; every household keeps the candles burning brightly and keeps watch for the new year. Early in the morning on the first day, but also to go to friends and relatives to say goodbye.
This custom has become more and more widespread, and it has become the grandest traditional festival in Chinese folklore.
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Another theory is:
China's ancient character book put the "year " character in the Wo section to signify favorable winds and rains and a good harvest of grains. Since the grains and cereals are usually cooked once a year. The word "year" was then extended to the name of the year.
China's ancient folk although there has long been the custom of the New Year, but then it is not called the Spring Festival. Because then the Spring Festival, refers to the twenty-four seasons in the "spring".
North and South Dynasties, the Spring Festival refers to the entire spring. It is said that it was after the Xinhai Revolution that the Lunar New Year was officially named the Spring Festival. Because of the change to the solar calendar at that time, in order to differentiate between the lunar and solar festivals, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar had to be renamed "Spring Festival".
Origin of the Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, as early as 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival began to enjoy the lights of the Eastern Han Dynasty Mingdi period, the Ming Emperor, who advocated Buddhism, heard that the Buddhist monks on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Buddha's relics, lighted lamps in honor of the Buddha's practice, the night of the day on the order in the Imperial Palace and temples lighted lamps in honor of the Buddha, so that the common people of the clan to hang lamps. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. The festival has gone through a process of development from the palace to the folk, from the Central Plains to the whole country.
During the reign of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, the 15th day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the festival of "Taiyi God" was held on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. (Taiyi: the god who dominates everything in the universe). When Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", the Lantern Festival was already recognized as a major festival.
Another theory is that the custom of burning lanterns at the Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "Three Elements"; the 15th day of the first month is the Upper Elements Festival, the 15th day of the seventh month is the Middle Elements Festival, and the 15th day of the tenth month is the Lower Elements Festival. In charge of the upper, middle and lower three yuan respectively for the sky, earth, human three officials, the heavenly officials happy, so on the first yuan festival to light.
The Lantern Festival festival period and festival activities, is with the development of history and extend, expand. In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is since the eighth light, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month of the lights, the whole ten days. With the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular. Especially the delicate, colorful lights, making it the climax of the entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. To the Qing Dynasty, and added a dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilt walkers, rice-planting songs and other "hundred plays" content, but the festival was shortened to four to five days.
On the origin of the Lantern Festival, there are several interesting folk legends:
Legend of the lamp
Legend of a long time ago, there are a lot of ferocious birds and beasts, all around the harm to people and livestock, the people will organize to fight them, there is a bird of God trapped in a lost and landed on the earth, but accidentally was unknowingly hunters to shoot dead. The emperor was furious when he found out about it, and immediately sent a decree ordering the heavenly soldiers to come to earth on the 15th day of the first month to set fire to all human and animal properties on earth. The emperor's daughter is kind-hearted, can't bear to see the people suffer innocently, so she risked her life and secretly drove the auspicious clouds to the earth, and told the news to the people. When the people heard the news, it was as if a thunderbolt had rung over their heads. They were so scared that they did not know what to do. It was only after a long time that an old man came up with an idea, saying, "On the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth days of the first month, every family should set up lanterns, light firecrackers, and set off fireworks in their houses. In this way, the Emperor of Heaven will think that people have been burnt to death".
All of them nodded their heads in agreement and went off to make preparations. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, the Heavenly Emperor looked down and found the earth a red light and a loud noise, for three nights in a row, and thought it was the flames of a great burning fire, and was greatly pleased to be in the midst of it. The people thus preserved their lives and their property. In honor of this success, from then on, every first month of the fifteenth, every family hangs lanterns, fireworks to commemorate this day.
Another legend has it that the Lantern Festival was set up by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to commemorate the "Ping Lu"
Another legend has it that the Lantern Festival was set up by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to commemorate the "Ping Lu". After the death of Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying, the son of Empress Lu, ascended the throne as Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Hui was weak and indecisive, and the power gradually fell into the hands of Empress Lu.
After the illness and death of Empress Lu, all of them were afraid of being harmed and ostracized. So, they secretly gathered at the home of General Lu Lu and ****planned for a rebellion in order to completely seize the Liu's kingdom.
This matter spread to Liu's royal family, King of Qi, Liu Sang's ears, Liu Sang in order to protect Liu's kingdom, decided to start a military crusade against all the Lü and then with the founding of the veteran Zhou Bo, Chen Ping contact, designed to lift the Lü Lü, "all the Lü's chaos," and finally was completely pacified.
After the rebellion was quelled, Liu Heng, the second son of Liu Bang, was crowned Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and the Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the second son of Liu Bang, was given the title of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. Deeply impressed by the hard-won peace and prosperity, Emperor Wen set the 15th day of the first month of the year in which the "Lü's Rebellion" was quelled as a day of joy for the people, and every house in the capital was decorated with lanterns and colors to celebrate the occasion. Since then, the 15th day of the first month has become a folk festival celebrated by all the people - the "Lantern Festival".
Dongfang Shuo and the Lantern Girl
This legend is related to the custom of eating the Lantern Festival: According to legend, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty had a favorite minister named Dongfang Shuo, who was kind and funny. One winter day, it snowed heavily for a few days , and Dongfang Shuo went to the imperial garden to fold plum blossoms for Emperor Wu. When he entered the garden, he found a courtesan in tears, ready to throw herself into a well. Dongfang Shuo rushed to her rescue and asked her why she wanted to commit suicide. It turned out that the courtesan's name was Yuan Xiao (元宵), and she had two parents and a younger sister at home. Since she entered the palace, she never had the chance to meet her family. Every year to the end of the spring season, more than usual miss their families. She felt that it would be better for her to die than to be able to fulfill her filial piety in front of her parents. When Dongfang Shuo heard her story, he sympathized with her and assured her that he would try to reunite her with her family.
One day, Dongfang Shuo went out of the palace and set up a divination booth on Chang'an Street. Many people were eager to ask for his fortune. Unexpectedly, every person's request was "the 16th day of the first month, the fire burns my body". For a while, Chang'an was in a great panic. People asked for a solution to the disaster. Dongfang Shuo said, "On the evening of the 13th day of the first month, the Fire God will send a red-clothed goddess down to visit the earth, and she is the messenger who has been ordered to burn Chang'an, I will give you the copied verse, so that the present son of heaven can think of a solution." Having said this, he threw down a red post and went away. The people picked up the red post and hurriedly sent it to the palace to report to the emperor.
Han Wu Di received a look, only to see written on it: "Chang'an in the robbery, the fire burned the Imperial Palace, fifteen days of fire, the flame red night", he was shocked, and hastened to invite the resourceful Oriental Shuo. Dongfang Shuo pretended to think for a moment, then said: "I heard that the fire god gentleman loves to eat dumplings, the palace Lantern is not often for you to make dumplings? On the fifteenth night, you can let the Lantern make soup dumplings. Banzai burned incense and made offerings, and ordered every family in Kyoto to make dumplings to honor the Fire God. And then, you will summon your subjects to hang lanterns together on the fifteenth night, and light firecrackers and set off fireworks all over the city, as if the city is on fire, so that you can hide it from the Jade Emperor. In addition, notify the people outside the city, the fifteenth night into the city to watch the lanterns, mixed in the crowd to eliminate disasters and solve the problem". When the Jade Emperor heard this, he was very happy, so he sent a decree to do as Dongfang Shuo's method.
To the fifteenth day of the first month of the Chang'an city of lights, colorful, tourists come and go, very lively. The parents of the courtesan Yuan Xiao also took their sister into the city to watch the lanterns. When they saw the words written "Lantern" large palace lanterns, surprise shouted: "Lantern! When they saw the big lantern with the word "Yuanxiao" written on it, they shouted in surprise: "Yuanxiao!
After such a lively night, the city of Chang'an was indeed safe and sound. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very happy, then ordered every first month of the future to make dumplings for the fire god king, the first month of the fifteenth as usual, the whole city hanging lights and fireworks. Because of the best dumplings made by the Lantern, people called the dumplings Lantern.