What is the most beautiful thing about Shanghai Lantern Festival?

Umbrella lantern is the most beautiful lantern festival in Shanghai. Lamps are made into umbrellas, some round and some hexagonal, all decorated with exquisite colored paper. Colored paper is polished as thin as cicada's wings, with figures, flowers and birds painted on it. The strokes of these paintings are as thin as cocoon silk. It takes a year to make a lamp, even if it costs 100 yuan, but the umbrella lamp is exhibited at the latest, and it is often not until around the1200th flower festival in February of the lunar calendar that the umbrella lamp begins to be grandly exhibited. Sometimes it reaches 200-300 lanterns. Sometimes flowers are painted on lanterns with the colored silk of Emperor Wu. Occasionally, birds, fish, cicadas and butterflies are decorated with patterns, flying and lifelike. Or tie it in the shape of a pavilion with colored paper, about three or four feet high. It is called Tiger, sometimes decorated with dragons and phoenixes, with mica as its shell, which is bright from top to bottom and has several feet of light. Some have two floors and some have three floors. Children in exquisite embroidered clothes are allowed to play zaju on every floor, and often play the Palace of Eternal Life.

In Yue Bai, Yuhuan, a wisp of cigarette floats in an animal-shaped incense burner, and the chaos of clouds and smoke shows the Moon Palace. Chang 'e stood on the left side of the palace, and the left and right handmaids each held a round fan. There are two constellations on the shoulders, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, which look like they are in the sky. When each kind of lamp passes by, it stretches for miles (far), making night as bright as day. The sound of gongs and drums lasted all night. But after the transaction, there was no such incident. Zhang Qiupu, a fellow villager, wrote in Song of the Years: On a moonlit night, the flute is playing green, and beads are often hung in the small building. Wu Ling talks about manuscript paper when he loses, and is good at counting umbrella lights in Jiangxiang. It probably means that talking paper is more precious than silk in the production of umbrella lamps. Talking paper is produced locally in Shanghai.

Yucang's family said: These records are trivial things, but if you insert an exclamation point, there are many feelings inside.