The custom of Lantern Festival is to make lanterns.
The Lantern Festival is a traditional Lantern Festival custom that began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lanterns prevailed, and inherited in later generations. And the first month of the 15th, and is the annual lantern fireworks climax.
So the Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of Lights" in Shanxi County, a city outline and even townships, townships, these residents are concentrated, busy and lively area, before the arrival of the first month of the fifteenth, the streets are full of lanterns, flowers everywhere, the lights are swaying, to the night of the first month of the fifteenth night to reach a climax.
Significance of the Lantern Festival:
The Spring Festival, which begins with the closing of the door on New Year's Eve to observe the New Year's Eve, and ends with the Lantern Festival, is a process in which people's scope of activities and interpersonal relationships are constantly being expanded. On the first day of the New Year's Eve, people pay homage to their parents, and on the second day of the New Year's Eve, they pay homage to their mother's family. Later on, the scope of New Year's greetings is gradually expanded to include relatives and friends in general. In this period, people's activities are limited to acquaintances.
The fifth day of the month is the fifth day of the month, when agricultural work can begin and stores can open. At this time of the year, society begins to function normally. By the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, all members of society, men and women, old and young, join in the festivities. Therefore, the Lantern Festival has the significance of recognizing the interrelationships of all members of society.