The origin of Lantern Festival Lantern Festival

The origin of Lantern Festival lanterns is as follows:

According to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a favourite named Dong Fangshuo. One winter, Dong Fangshuo went to the Imperial Garden to fold plum blossoms for Emperor Wu. As soon as I entered the garden gate, I found a maid-in-waiting in tears ready to throw herself into the well. Dong Fangshuo rushed forward to help and asked her why she committed suicide. It turns out that this maid-in-waiting named Yuanxiao has parents and a sister at home. She has never seen her family since she entered the palace. Every spring comes, she misses her family more than usual. I think in front of my parents, I would rather die than be filial. One day, Dong Fangshuo left the palace and set up a divination pavilion on Chang 'an Avenue. Unexpectedly, what everyone wants is the signature of "burning us on the 16th day of the first month".

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty knew about it and invited him to Dong Fangshuo. Dong Fangshuo said hypocritically, "Vulcan people like jiaozi best. Don't Yuanxiao in the palace often give you jiaozi? Let Yuanxiao package jiaozi on 15th night. Long live the incense and offerings, and order every family in Kyoto to pack jiaozi and worship Vulcan together. Then tell the subjects to hang lights together on the fifteenth night and set off firecrackers and fireworks all over the city, as if the whole city were on fire, so that the jade emperor could be fooled. In addition, inform the people outside the city to go to the city to watch the lights for fifteen nights, and they will eliminate disasters and solve problems in the crowd. " Liang Wudi was very happy after hearing this, so he ordered him to do it according to Dong Fangshuo's method.