Why is it called Kongming Lantern?

Question 1: The origin of Kongming Lantern, also known as Sky Lantern, is said to have been invented by Zhu Gekongming during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Zhu Gekongming was besieged by Sima Yi in Pingyang, unable to send troops out of the city for help. Kong Ming calculated the wind direction, made a floating paper lantern and tied it with a message for help. Later, it was really out of danger, so later generations called this lantern Kongming Lantern. Another way of saying this is that this lantern looks like a hat worn by Zhu Gekongming, hence its name.

Question 2: Kongming Lantern, what does it mean to pray for peace, tranquility and happiness?

Question 3: Why is Kongming's lamp called Kongming Lantern, which was invented before Zhuge Liang? It is said that it was invented by Zhu Gekongming (Zhuge Liang) during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Zhu Gekongming was besieged by Sima Yi in Pingyang, unable to send troops out of the city for help. Kong Ming calculated the wind direction, made a floating paper lantern, tied with the message for help, and then escaped as expected, so later generations called this lantern Kong Ming Lantern.

Another way of saying this is that this lantern looks like a hat worn by Zhu Gekongming, hence its name.

Question 4: Why do you want to put the Kongming Lantern on the Mid-Autumn Festival? On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, many places in Guangdong have the custom of putting on Kongming lanterns. Kongming is a native of yinan county, Shandong Province, and they have the custom of putting lanterns in their cages. "Kongming Lantern", also known as Sky Lantern, is said to have been invented by Zhu Gekongming (Zhuge Liang) during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Zhu Gekongming was besieged by Sima Yi in Yuping, unable to send troops out of the city for help. Kong Ming calculated the wind direction, made a floating paper lantern, tied with the message for help, and then escaped as expected, so later generations called this lantern Kong Ming Lantern. Another way of saying this is that this lantern looks like a hat worn by Zhu Gekongming, hence its name. Sky lanterns are also called "blessing lanterns" or "safety lanterns". The meaning of flying wishes and prayers; Personally, I think that in modern times, many people put lanterns on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, which is largely a hype of businessmen, just like apples on Christmas Eve. . .

Question 5: What is Kongming Lantern? What is Kongming Lantern?

A: It's called Kongming Lantern. First of all, the sky lantern looks a bit like the hat worn by Mr. Kong Ming. Second, it is said that when Kongming was besieged by Sima Yi, the whole army was at a loss. Zhuge Liang came up with a clever plan and ordered people to take thousands of blank sheets of paper and paste them into countless sky lanterns. Then, they are taken away by the upward smoke attraction, and the sky lanterns rise one after another. Another person in the camp shouted: "Mr. Zhuge, the sky lamp is broken!" Sima Yi actually believed it and was cheated. This plan saved Mr Zhuge's life.

Q: What are Kongming lanterns used for?

A: Modern people often regard Kongming Lantern as a blessing. The wishes of men, women and children to write blessings by hand symbolize the bumper harvest and happiness every year. So it is also called wishing lamp or sky lamp! There are many folk customs in many places. When you get married and have children, you should light the lamp of peace! Sky lanterns can be used to organize spring outing parties, weddings, birthdays, festivals and young people's dates to show their love and advertisements.

Q: Why do performance lights fly into the sky?

A: The principle of Kongming Lantern is the same as that of modern hot air balloon. The air in the lamp is heated and expanded due to combustion and is taken away. But why does hot air float? We can use Archimedes principle to explain that when an object has the same volume as air, but its weight (density) is less than air, it can fly, which is the same as the buoyancy of water. When the air in the ball is heated, due to the expansion of the air, part of the air in the ball will flow out of the ball, making the density of the internal air less than that of the external air, so that the ball filled with hot air will fly.

Question 6: What is the significance of Lantern Festival? Why did you put the Kongming lantern cage? Do you have any explanation? the Lantern Festival

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, just after the Spring Festival, the traditional festival Lantern Festival in China was ushered in.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of Spring Festival, people celebrate this festival and the continuation of the Spring Festival. Lantern Festival is also called "Shangyuan Festival".

According to the folk tradition in China, on this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting and setting fires, enjoying lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, family reunion and celebrating festivals are all enjoyment.

Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. The custom of burning lanterns in the Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the lantern viewing activities became more prosperous. Lights are hung everywhere in palaces and streets, and tall light wheels, light buildings and light trees have been built. Lu Zeng, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, described the grand occasion of the Lantern Festival in "Watching Lights at Fifteen Nights", saying that "the stars in the Han Dynasty fell, and the balcony was like a hanging moon."

In the Song Dynasty, more attention was paid to the Lantern Festival, and lantern viewing activities became more lively. The lantern viewing activity lasted for five days, and the styles of lanterns were more abundant. In the Ming Dynasty, the Lantern Festival will last 10 days, which is the longest Lantern Festival in China. Although there were only three days to enjoy the lanterns in the Qing Dynasty, the scale of the lantern viewing activities was unprecedented. Besides burning lanterns, fireworks are also set off for entertainment.

"Lantern riddle", also known as "playing riddles", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, which appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin 'an, the capital, made riddles every Lantern Festival, and there were many people in solve riddles on the lanterns. At the beginning, it was a busybody who wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of communication.

Folk custom of eating Yuanxiao on Lantern Festival. Yuanxiao is made of glutinous rice, which can be solid or stuffed. Filled with bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, various fruit materials and so on. You can cook, fry, steam and fry when you eat. At first, people called this kind of food "Floating Zi Yuan", and later they called it "Tangtuan" or "Tangyuan". These names are similar in pronunciation, meaning reunion, symbolizing family reunion, harmony and happiness. People also miss their departed relatives and place their best wishes on their future lives.

In some places, the Lantern Festival also has the custom of "walking away from all diseases", which is also called "roasting all diseases" and "dispersing all diseases". Most of the participants are women. They walk together or against the wall, or across the bridge in the suburbs, in order to drive away diseases and eliminate disasters.

With the passage of time, there are more and more activities in the Lantern Festival, and many local festivals have added traditional folk performances such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than two thousand years, is not only popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also celebrated every year in areas where overseas Chinese live in concentrated communities.

Question 7: Why is Kongming Lantern called Kongming Lantern? Does it have anything to do with Zhuge Liang? I heard adults say it's called Kongming Lantern. First of all, the sky lantern is a bit like the hat worn by Mr. Kong Ming. Second, we folks say this about the origin of Kongming Lantern. When Kong Ming was besieged by Sima Yi, the whole army was at a loss. Zhuge Liang came up with a clever plan, so he ordered people to bring thousands of blank sheets of paper, paste them into countless sky lanterns, and then take them off by the upward gravity of smoke. Xiaotian lights went up one after another, and people in the camp shouted, "Mr. Zhuge broke through in the sky lanterns!" Sima Yi actually believed it and was cheated. This plan saved Mr Zhuge's life. Modern people put lanterns on Kongming lanterns as a blessing. The wishes of men, women and children to write blessings by hand symbolize the bumper harvest and happiness every year. The structure of Kongming Lantern can be divided into two parts: the main body is mostly bamboo grates, followed by cotton paper or paper paste, and the underframe is bamboo grates. Kongming lanterns can be large or small, round or rectangular. Generally speaking, Kongming lanterns are barrel-shaped made of bamboo pieces, surrounded by thin white paper, and their openings are downward. When taking off with a light, tie a piece of coarse cloth or gold paper stained with kerosene or peanut oil in the middle of the bracket at the bottom, and light the fuel before flying. After the fire in the lamp burns for a while, it will produce hot air and the lanterns will expand. After flying, the whole lantern will soar in Ran Ran. If the weather is clear and the kerosene at the bottom burns out, the Kongming Lantern will automatically descend.

Question 8: Why did Kongming invent Kongming Lantern? Kongming Lantern, also called Sky Lantern, is said to have been invented by Zhu Gekongming (Zhuge Liang) during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Zhu Gekongming was besieged by Sima Yi in Pingyang, unable to send troops out of the city for help. Kong Ming calculated the wind direction, made a floating paper lantern, tied with the message for help, and then escaped as expected, so later generations called this lantern Kong Ming Lantern. Another way of saying this is that this lantern looks like a hat worn by Zhu Gekongming, hence its name.

Modern people put lanterns on Kongming lanterns as a blessing. The wishes of men, women and children to write blessings by hand symbolize the bumper harvest and happiness every year.

During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, ancestors were introduced into Taibei County, Pingxi Township and Shiliao District of Taiwan Province Province from Hui 'an and Anxi counties in Fujian, that is, the upper reaches of Keelung River. According to the oral accounts of the elders in Shiliao area, bandits occurred in Shiliao area in the early Qing Dynasty. Being located in the mountainous area, all the villagers fled to the mountains. After the bandits left, the people who stayed in the village used sky lanterns as signals at night to inform the villagers who had taken refuge in the mountains that they could go down the mountain and go home. This is also the way to report peace to the villagers. Since the Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, villagers in ten regions celebrate the Lantern Festival every year and report peace to villagers in neighboring villages. Therefore, villagers in ten areas also call sky lanterns "blessing lanterns" or "safety lanterns".

Question 9: The origin of Kongming Lantern, also known as Sky Lantern, is said to have been invented by Zhu Gekongming during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, Zhu Gekongming was besieged by Sima Yi in Pingyang, unable to send troops out of the city for help. Kong Ming calculated the wind direction, made a floating paper lantern and tied it with a message for help. Later, it was really out of danger, so later generations called this lantern Kongming Lantern. Another way of saying this is that this lantern looks like a hat worn by Zhu Gekongming, hence its name.

Question 10: What is Kongming Lantern? What is Kongming Lantern?

A: It's called Kongming Lantern. First of all, the sky lantern looks a bit like the hat worn by Mr. Kong Ming. Second, it is said that when Kongming was besieged by Sima Yi, the whole army was at a loss. Zhuge Liang came up with a clever plan and ordered people to take thousands of blank sheets of paper and paste them into countless sky lanterns. Then, they are taken away by the upward smoke attraction, and the sky lanterns rise one after another. Another person in the camp shouted: "Mr. Zhuge, the sky lamp is broken!" Sima Yi actually believed it and was cheated. This plan saved Mr Zhuge's life.

Q: What are Kongming lanterns used for?

A: Modern people often regard Kongming Lantern as a blessing. The wishes of men, women and children to write blessings by hand symbolize the bumper harvest and happiness every year. So it is also called wishing lamp or sky lamp! There are many folk customs in many places. When you get married and have children, you should light the lamp of peace! Sky lanterns can be used to organize spring outing parties, weddings, birthdays, festivals and young people's dates to show their love and advertisements.

Q: Why do performance lights fly into the sky?

A: The principle of Kongming Lantern is the same as that of modern hot air balloon. The air in the lamp is heated and expanded due to combustion and is taken away. But why does hot air float? We can use Archimedes principle to explain that when an object has the same volume as air, but its weight (density) is less than air, it can fly, which is the same as the buoyancy of water. When the air in the ball is heated, due to the expansion of the air, part of the air in the ball will flow out of the ball, making the density of the internal air less than that of the external air, so that the ball filled with hot air will fly.