Lantern Culture in China
This history of lantern is very long. According to the folk customs, lantern show is also referred to as lantern festival, which is a major traditional event very popular among Chinese people. Lantern art is a comprehensive art of decoration, and the lantern show is born out of the development from people using fire, inventing lantern and making lanterns. Suiren discovered that fire could be made by drilling the wood. Since then fires were started, torches lit, and they served as the origin of lanterns.
