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Hainan lanterns, also known as Wen lanterns and sky lanterns, are made of white paper paste. According to the principle of hot air balloon, the heat generated by air expansion can be taken away. The fuel it carries can float about 1 hour. At first, it looks like an unknown flying object. After rising to a certain height, it looks like a star.

According to legend, it spread from the mainland to Hainan and evolved into a very distinctive local folk custom. On festive days or grand festivals, people light lanterns to express their good wishes. Before lighting lanterns, people should write down their wishes on the lanterns. Ran Ran will rise to the sky with the lanterns to pray that their wishes can come true.

In the villages around Wenchang, Wanning and Danzhou, there are folk customs of tying lanterns and putting them out. Because the Wenchang accent "Sky Lantern" is homophonic with "Tianding", the boy family spontaneously formed a "Lantern Delivery Team", and used lanterns with auspicious words such as lanterns, lanterns, hand lanterns, flower basket lanterns, carp lanterns and rare ancient lanterns to beat gongs and drums, and walked around the village to the temple, indicating that they would be sent to "a prosperous population and a prosperous family scene". When putting the lantern on, pour the oil on the rag with the barrel mouth facing down. After the tarpaulin is lit, the whole paper bucket will be filled with hot air, and the sky lanterns of every household will rise like hot air balloons. Take your blessings and wishes and float into the night sky.

Hakka kongming lantern

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Hakka custom has the custom of flying "Kongming Lantern" around the Lantern Festival to pray for happiness and prosperity in the coming year.

Kongming's lanterns are large and small, with a diameter of more than 2 meters. It is made of bamboo sticks, pasted with flexible bamboo hemp paper and brushed with tung oil. On the cross at the bottom of the lantern, a cloth ball covered with soybean oil is tied with wire. When flying Kongming lanterns, first light the cloth ball, and the air in the lanterns will become lighter when heated. Once you let go, Kongming Lantern will float in Ran Ran, just like the flashing light in the night sky in early spring.