What is the origin of dragon lanterns?

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a lotus village on the bank of Tiaoxi River. There is a lotus pond in front of the village, which is full of lotus flowers. ... Lotus saw her son turn into a dragon and fly into the sky, shouting loudly, but the dragon had disappeared without a trace.

From then on, whenever there was a drought on both sides of Tiaoxi River, Xiaolong came to scatter clouds and rain. To thank it, the local people picked 749 lotus flowers from this pond and made a dragon with 999 petals. Because it is less than a piece of Chiba and my father's name is Bai Ye, I named it Baiyelong. Every Spring Festival, people beat gongs, drums and dragons.

In ancient times, dragon and lion dances were one of the programs of large festivals in a year. With the emigration of Chinese to other parts of the world, the dragon and lion dance culture has spread all over Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand, and has become an important symbol of Chinese culture.

Dragon lantern introduction:

Dragon lantern dance, also known as dragon dancing, dragon lantern playing, is a traditional Chinese dance. It is said that it began in the Han Dynasty, and then it became a great sight in Shuhe Town, Shaanxi Province. Lights are lit on the thirteenth day of the first month, reaching its climax on the fifteenth day of the first month, and lights are turned off on the sixteenth day of the first month. Dragon lanterns are danced from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first month every year.

Dragon dancers, regardless of sex, dressed in double-breasted colorful clothes and red ribbons, held pole, bent down to dance with treasure hunters for a long time. Accompanied by percussion instruments, fire dragons use colored faucets. These dragons are dressed in colorful robes. Each part has a bamboo cage with candles or twisters built in, which will glow when dancing. Fire dragons are longer and larger than colorful dragons, generally more than 10 knots, and their poles are longer. The pole of the dragon is about 2 meters long.