There is a custom of hanging red lanterns at the door of our country during the new year. Actually, hanging red lanterns is not only good-looking and festive, but also has many sayings in it. It's like the time of hanging red lanterns and the number of lanterns. So what's the specific stress of hanging red lanterns in the new year? Let's learn.
When will the lantern be hung in the Spring Festival
During the Spring Festival, lanterns are usually hung around the new year's Eve or the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month.
The Spring Festival is decorated with red lanterns symbolizing reunion to create a festive atmosphere. Later, the lantern became a symbol of Chinese people's happiness. After successive generations of inheritance and development of the artists, formed a variety of colorful and superb technology level. From the category: Palace lamp, gauze lamp, chandelier and so on. In terms of modeling, there are figures, mountains and rivers, flowers and birds, dragons and phoenixes, fish and insects, etc. in addition, there are horse lamps for people to enjoy. Chinese lanterns are made of bamboo, wood, rattan, wheat straw, animal horn, metal, silk and other materials produced in various regions. Among the lanterns made in ancient China, palace lanterns and gauze lanterns are the most famous.
China's lanterns are not only used for lighting, they are also often a symbol. Wu Dunhou said that he used to make bridal lanterns (palace lanterns) to represent wedding celebrations; bamboo strip lanterns to indicate funeral occasions; umbrella lanterns (surnamed lanterns) because "lanterns" and "Ding" have the same voice, which means that people are prosperous. Therefore, in the past, every family had a lamp with a surname, which was hung under the eaves and in the living room. Today, there are still two big lanterns in front of the head of the array of gods at the meeting of greeting gods, which is the continuation of this custom.
A few lanterns at home for the new year
There is no fixed number of lanterns hung at home during the Spring Festival, but the double number of 2, 4 and 6 is usually chosen.
The first meaning of hanging red lanterns for the new year is to welcome the coming of the new year and have a red and fiery auspicious year.
The second implication of hanging red lanterns for the new year is to welcome the fortune of the next year. On the thirty first night of the new year, we have two years to celebrate the new year. The red lantern is high above our heads. People walk around under the light and look up to see that the light is lucky. It means that we have good luck in the new year.
The third meaning of the Red Lantern Festival is the homophony of the lantern and Ding. Another meaning of the Red Lantern Festival is that the family is prosperous and the family is prosperous.
Chinese lanterns originated in the Western Han Dynasty more than 1800 years ago. Every year around the Lantern Festival on the first month of the lunar calendar, people hang red lanterns to celebrate. Later, the lantern became a symbol of Chinese people's happiness. There are more and more kinds of lanterns and more patterns.
According to historical records, there were hundreds of Lantern trees in Shangyuan Lantern Festival in the reign of Tianbao in Kaiyuan of Tang Dynasty, which were 80 feet high, standing on a high mountain and lit at night of Shangyuan. They were all seen in a hundred miles, and the brightness of the moon captured the color of the moon, which became a great landscape at that time. The history of making lanterns in Sanzhao village can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. Sanzhao village lanterns are exported to other regions of China, including Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, and even East Asia, such as South Korea and Hong Kong, because of their beautiful shape, delicate work, novel and unique patterns, strong local flavor and rich historical culture.