Will there be lanterns on Mid-Autumn Festival? The Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns have also become river lanterns or water lanterns. Now this traditional custom still exists in many places. Perhaps many people know that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival of sacrifice, so wearing them is also an expression of people's thoughts.
Water lanterns, also known as river lanterns, are also called "lotus lanterns". River lanterns usually put lights or candles and paper and wooden seats on the base. People put river lanterns in rivers, lakes and oceans on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival and let them float. As an ancient custom of China people, on the Mid-Autumn Festival "Orchid Festival" on July 15 every year, ordinary people will put lights in the river for peace and good luck. In fact, people like to put on river lanterns from June to Mid-Autumn Festival.
The folk custom of "River Lantern" originated very early. In primitive society, limited by the understanding of nature, for a long time, people thought that fire was the source of everything, the totem of worship, the symbol of good fortune and warmth, and the god who overcame cold and hunger. Because folk mourning for their loved ones is often held on the first day, fifteenth day and death day of each month. After the Han and Jin Dynasties, the religious influence expanded day by day. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Liang Wudi worshiped Buddhism and advocated the holding of land and water dharma meetings. Monks set off river lanterns in the release pond.
The significance of Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is a traditional custom of Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival can not only pin people's thoughts on their ancestors, but also mean that bad luck will never return with the passing water. River lanterns are also called "lotus lanterns". Generally, lights or candles are placed on the base, and they are placed in rivers, lakes and seas during the Mid-Autumn Festival, allowing them to float. The function of river lanterns is to drown ghosts and other ghosts in Purdue water.
On the one hand, river lanterns can not only pin people's thoughts on their ancestors, but also mean that bad luck will never return with the passing water. In both cases, orphans who drowned with river lanterns hope that these water ghosts can be reborn as soon as possible without suffering, so as not to cause harm to the world. Among the three, the river on earth is connected with the river in the ghost town of Fengdu, and people bring their thoughts of their ancestors and their words to the underworld through river lanterns.
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people use paper to make colorful lights such as lotus lamp, goldfish lamp, imp lamp, Guanyin lamp and Yuanbao lamp, which flash down the river, making the whole river look beautiful and poetic. Unfortunately, today, except for a few small towns with simple folk customs, it is difficult for people to see the activities of river lanterns, and these beautiful pictures can only be left in memories.
People think that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a ghost festival, and lanterns should also be put on to celebrate the festival for ghosts. But people and ghosts are different, so a lantern in the Central Plains is different from a lantern in Shangyuan. People are yang, ghosts are yin; The earth is yang and the water is yin. The mysterious darkness underwater reminds people of the legendary hell and the place where ghosts sink. So Shangyuan lanterns are on land, and Zhongyuan lanterns are in water. Today's river lantern has become a joyful activity. According to the etiquette of Buddhist bonsai, the river lantern is just one of the small programs, which doesn't seem so important. In the folk activities of Mid-Autumn Festival, it is more important to put on lights.
River lanterns are also called "lotus lanterns". Generally, lights or candles are placed on the base, and they are placed in rivers, lakes and seas during the Mid-Autumn Festival, allowing them to float. The function of river lanterns is to drown ghosts and other ghosts in Purdue water. A passage in the biography of Hulan River by Hong Xiao, a modern woman writer, is the best footnote of this custom: "July 15th is Ghost Festival; You damn fool can't keep alive, and it's hard to wander in hell. They want to support themselves, but they can't find the direction. On this day, if a fool holds a river lantern, he must support his life. " Probably this road from the underworld to death is so dark that you can't see the road without a lamp. So turning on the light is a good thing. It can be seen that the living gentlemen have not forgotten the dead ghosts.
In primitive society, limited by the understanding of nature, for a long time, people thought that fire was the source of everything, the totem of worship, the symbol of good fortune and warmth, and the god who overcame cold and hunger. In the era of fishing and hunting, people sailed out to sea and went down to the lake to avoid storms. When crossing dangerous rocks, beaches or rough seas, they make bamboo boats with wooden boards, light candles for sacrifice, and make sails with colored paper to drift in the water, praying for the safety of Poseidon. This custom is still popular among fishermen in Taiwan Province Province, Fujian Province and Guangdong Province, and is called Lantern. BC 1 1 In the Zhou Dynasty, the slave society, Duke Zhou assisted the King of Wu in Bucheng Luoyi, and held a banquet in Qushui to celebrate. "Water overflowed wine" and "feathers drifted with the tide" day and night, putting lamps on the lamps of wine glasses, and the lamps and wines evolved from cups and lamps flowed one after another. The Book of Songs in the Spring and Autumn Period recorded the folk custom of Qin Gui and his wife holding candles to summon spirits and protect spirits and holding orchids to ward off evil spirits.