Why do you light candles on the Lantern Festival?

Lighting candles on the Lantern Festival mainly replaces the ancient custom of putting lights on the Lantern Festival. The custom of setting off lanterns in the Lantern Festival mainly comes from the Taoist "ternary theory", which says that the fifteenth day of the first month is the Shangyuan Festival, and the celestial officials will give blessings on this day, so there is a custom of setting off lanterns to welcome people, which has evolved into lighting candles in modern times.

The significance of lighting candles on Lantern Festival

Lighting candles on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month means that life can flourish and the new year will usher in a new atmosphere. Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, is homophonic with lanterns, so welcoming lanterns is of great significance.

The significance of lighting candles on Lantern Festival is to ward off evil spirits and avoid special features, and to light a lamp to show Buddha. Because candles are lit at night and have the function of illuminating the route, they have the meaning of driving away evil spirits, providing light and blessing peace.

China New Year folk songs include fourteen lanterns, the fifteenth Lantern Festival and the sixteenth Lantern Festival. It can be seen that welcoming lanterns has become an indispensable activity of the Lantern Festival. After the Tang Dynasty, lanterns were not only varied and ever-changing, but also became a popular activity. Song Dynasty is the heyday of lanterns, which are shaped like glass balls and also made of five-color wax paper, bodhi leaves, sheepskin and tortoise shells. They are gorgeous and exquisite. Besides lanterns, the most popular activity of Lantern Festival is solve riddles on the lanterns. Lantern riddle is to stick a riddle on a lamp so that people can guess the riddle while enjoying the lamp.