1, tied together with paper or cloth, bamboo strips or iron wire, shaped like a legendary dragon with a hollow center. When you play at night, you should light candles at each festival and put a wooden stick at the bottom for people to hold in their hands. When playing the dragon lantern, you should be accompanied by a band. Dragon lanterns should be drummed everywhere and are props for large-scale entertainment activities.
2, playing dragon lanterns, also known as dragon lanterns or dragon dances. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance in the suburbs of Qing Dynasty, there was a leading bird image played by a man, and then a dance scene with six dragons interspersed with each other was arranged. The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays.