The people of Liangzhou celebrate the Spring Festival, and the Lantern Festival ends on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The 15th day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival by the people. The most prominent landscape of this festival is a series of "lantern" activities such as hanging lanterns, lantern competitions, and lantern appreciation, so it is also called the "Lantern Festival". This is a group festival activity with a strong recreational nature, and it is also a kind of inheritance of the ancient culture of the Chinese nation. The Lantern Festival is said to have been left over from the Han Dynasty. During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen had a dream that the Jade Emperor ordered the Fire Star God to burn the capital on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Emperor Wen was very panicked, so he summoned his ministers to discuss. Minister Dongfang Shuo suggested that he could ask the Fire Star God for mercy to avoid this disaster. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Fire Star God really came to the capital. Emperor Wen led his ministers and the people of the capital to bow down and welcome him, begging the Fire Star God not to burn the capital for the sake of the millions of people. The Fire Star God could not bear to see the lives of the people suffer, but he dared not violate the heavenly law because of the holy order. Just when he was in a dilemma, Dongfang Shuo offered another plan. That night, the capital Chang'an, from the imperial palace to the courtyards of the people, followed Dongfang Shuo's plan to light lanterns and torches, and the whole place was bright and bright, just like daytime. The flames penetrated the clouds, and the Fire God saw that the scene was indeed like a fire from heaven, and thought it was enough to deceive the Jade Emperor, so he returned to the heaven to report. After that, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, the capital would light lanterns and torches to commemorate it, and use glutinous rice flour to make balls, which looked like pearls, commonly known as "Yuanxiao". On the surface, it was to pay respect to the Fire God, but in fact, it was to use glutinous rice cakes to stick his teeth to make him talk less. The Lantern Festival in Liangzhou was brilliant and ingenious, and spectacular. Every year before the Lantern Festival, people from all walks of life get busy. Those colored paper, paint, iron wire, bamboo strips, yarn and cloth, after cutting, picking, painting, dyeing, tying, wrapping and stretching, are transformed into vivid lanterns of various animals, flowers, fruits, mythological characters, etc. by pairs of skillful hands. On the Lantern Festival, the street-side houses, shops and government agencies in all four streets and eight alleys hang colored lanterns in front of their doors, decorating Liangzhou City like a sea of lights. As soon as it gets dark, thousands of lights shine brightly. On this night, people in Liangzhou go out to tour the lanterns. The streets are crowded with people, lights are flashing, and it is very lively. If you encounter a dragon lantern, the lantern-watchers must crawl under the dragon, saying that this way they will be touched by the "dragon light". It is also said that the dragon is a mascot for many children and grandchildren, and "lantern" is derived from "fire" and "ding". Drilling under the dragon lantern will make the family prosperous and the life prosperous. It can be seen that the colorful lanterns of the Lantern Festival are not only beautiful, but also reflect the Liangzhou people's yearning for a better and brighter future. In the rural areas of Liangzhou, the Lantern Festival is very interesting. The rural lanterns show the wisdom of ingenuity in their simplicity and nature. Some use corn cobs soaked in oil to burn as torches; some hollow out potatoes or radishes, fill them with oil, insert glutinous rice seeds and light them as torches; others cut the shells of old gourds until they are translucent, and paint various patterns on the outside to make lanterns. More lanterns are made of colored paper in various shapes. The Lantern Festival in Liangzhou has a long history and is quite famous. The old "Customs Records" recorded: "Before and after the Lantern Festival, Liangzhou's four markets erected squares, lit up lanterns, and built high mountains with painted Buddha statues covered with gauze, which were called Aoshan Lanterns. The Zhenhai and Guxi towers also lit up the layers of lanterns. Firecrackers were set off, flutes were played, and fireworks shone with the sun and the moon. Music and singing were joyful all night long. People gathered to have fun, thinking it was a sign of peace and abundance, which had been the case since the Tang Dynasty." However, among all the lantern fairs in Liangzhou, the most magical, interesting and outstanding one is the "Yellow River Lantern Festival" in Jinta Temple. "Yellow River Lantern Festival", as the name suggests, is based on the nine bends and eighteen turns of the Yellow River, which is like "the formation of heaven and earth, and the momentum of the Yellow River". It is also said to be modeled after the arrangement of the Yellow River formation in the 50th chapter of the classical novel "The Romance of the Gods", "The Three Aunts Arrange the Yellow River Formation". First, a gate of the mountain of lanterns is set up, and lanterns and decorations are hung to establish the gate; then, in the central Tai Chi, a five-meter-high pole is erected in the center of the lantern array, and nine lotus lanterns, hanging buckets, and flags are hung on it; then 360 lantern poles are lifted up with 360 lanterns of various colors, and they are divided into nine cities according to the trend of the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams, forming a nine-bend chain formation of the Yellow River. Those who watch the lanterns must follow the directions of the Eight Diagrams and a certain route to be able to see the best of the best and walk through all the lantern cities, otherwise they will lose their way, as if they were in a maze. Every year during the Lantern Festival, lanterns are lit, and villagers from all over the country flock to the Yellow River Lantern Array according to the above rules, "entering and exiting the gates, advancing and retreating in a chain, and in an orderly manner." On the night of the Lantern Festival, the land of Liangzhou is "red with fire trees and silver flowers, and the drums of the sky are blowing in the spring breeze." Dusk has just fallen, and the bright moon rises from the east, and the mountains and fields seem to be covered with a layer of silver gauze. On a flat high ground, a square lantern city stands, majestic and magnificent, with lights and moon shining together, colorful. The majestic and magnificent lantern gate, the glittering sea of lights, the nine-lotus lanterns on the central lamp pole, the fluttering flags and hanging buckets, set off the dark shadows of the Qilian Mountains and the vast and undulating mountains. The "Yellow River Lantern Array" is like an ancient military camp, which looks so solemn and mysterious in the night. "Who can sit idle when seeing the moon, and who can't come to see the lanterns when hearing them." For a time, people from all directions came to watch the lanterns, holding lanterns and torches high, and came like a tide, entering the "Yellow River Lantern Array" from the center of the lantern gate, circling and roaming in this mysterious maze of lights. It is said that the Yellow River has nine bends and eighteen turns, but no one who watches the lanterns can figure out how many turns and circles it has made. They only feel that it turns left, turns right, faces south, and goes north. They are full of interest and feel that the sea of lanterns is full of lights. Various lanterns are like flowers competing for beauty, each with its own style. Not to mention the traditional lanterns such as the revolving lantern, the jade rabbit lantern, the peacock lantern, the Ziya Fengshen lantern, the three battles with Lu Bu lantern, the havoc in heaven lantern, etc., which seem to bring people into the mythological world. These cabbage lanterns, gourd lanterns, watermelon lanterns, chili lanterns, cat lanterns, dog lanterns, lamb lanterns, and baby lanterns are also lifelike, colorful, and beautiful. They are indeed ingenious, dazzling, and full of rich local characteristics. It can be said that the world is in full view. This scene is in line with an ancient poem: When the first month is full, the lanterns are new, and the lights in the city are as white as silver. There are thousands of lanterns under the round moon, and a bright moon in the lanterns. Watching the lanterns under the moon is rich and prosperous, and admiring the moon in front of the lanterns is lively. Tonight, the moonlight and lanterns are full of people watching the lanterns and admiring the moon. On this day, sometimes it snows, which just fits the saying "the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is snowy and lanterns are lit". The sky is covered with snow, and the scene at this time is unique.