Dahe News Yu video reporter Bai Zhoufeng
The Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month) is coming, and when it comes to the season of "hanging lanterns and enjoying flower lanterns", the lantern market is also suddenly lively.
On February 13, the small vendors selling lanterns on the night market on Jiankang Road in Zhengzhou City suddenly increased, and the vendors put out a variety of lanterns, in addition to the traditional big red lanterns, palace lights, Tiger Year zodiac lights, there are a variety of new types of lanterns, such as Transformers, cartoon characters and other modern lanterns, very eye-catching, many parents with their children in the selection, holding beautiful lanterns, children are very excited.
It is understood that the custom of lantern viewing during the Lantern Festival began in the Han Dynasty and developed into a grand lamp market during the Sui and Tang dynasties. By the Song and Yuan dynasties, Kyoto's lamp market often stretched for tens of miles. The time of the lantern festival was limited to the fifteenth night of the first month of the Han Dynasty, the Tang Xuanzong extended it to three nights, and the Ming Dynasty stipulated that it lasted from the eighth day of the first month to the seventeenth day of the first month.
Source: Dahe Newspaper Yu Video Editor: Zhao Pengyu