What is the meaning of the Lantern Festival node lights?
"A sheng song spring is like the sea, thousands of The door lights are like day at night." From ancient times to the present, lighting the lights has been an important festival custom of the Lantern Festival, because the lights of the Lantern Festival often symbolize exorcising evil spirits, praying for blessings and peace, and lighting the lights to represent the Buddha.
Although the Lantern Festival is not a legal holiday, its grand scale is not inferior to the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and even the Spring Festival.Since the Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month has been highly valued by people.Among the folks, there are people who eat Lantern Festival, watch lanterns, play dragon lanterns, walk on stilts, walk around diseases, dance lions, row dry boats, make sacrifices to gates and households, Festival customs such as sending lanterns and lighting lanterns, among which lantern lighting is the most important one among the many folk customs of the Lantern Festival.
What is the meaning of the lantern at 15 o"clock in the first month
1.To exorcise evil spirits:Although the moonlight is just right on the fifteenth day of the first month, it is also a festival in the dark, so most people will Two lanterns are lit at the gate, which means to disperse the darkness and the evil in the darkness, so as to achieve the purpose of exorcising evil spirits, which is a very auspicious practice.Therefore, the lanterns at 15 o"clock in the first lunar month often symbolize the exorcism of evil spirits.
2.Blessing and peace:Most of the lanterns hanging on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month are red lanterns, on the one hand because the red lanterns look very dazzling, on the other hand because red is a very auspicious and festive color , Hanging on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month often means praying for peace and happiness, and so on, so hanging lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month also means praying for peace and blessings.
3.Burning the lamp to represent the Buddha:The lantern at 15 o"clock in the first month originally symbolized the burning of the lamp to represent the Buddha, because this custom originated in Buddhism.In the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to promote the Buddhist Dharma, Emperor Ming of Han would light lamps to worship Buddha statues on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, so as to achieve the purpose of lighting the lamps to represent the Buddha, but nowadays people rarely burn the lamps to represent the Buddha.Most of the Lantern Festival node lanterns also refer to the meaning of exorcising evil spirits and praying for blessings.
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