As early as the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, after the establishment of the Huangdingdu (Si) government office in Xilongbao (Le'an), the villagers here had the habit of "celebrating lanterns" on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and every household decorated with lanterns and celebrated. The tenth day of the first lunar month every year is the "lighting of lanterns", and the ninth day of the first lunar month is the Le'an market period. People come to Le'an to buy lanterns, and gradually a lantern market is formed, specializing in selling lanterns. There are many people selling lanterns, and there are also many people making lanterns. In the neighboring Gangtou Village, almost every family makes lanterns. It was once known as the "hometown of crafts". During the "Kang, Yong, and Qian" years of the Qing Dynasty, the lanterns here were more prosperous, and there was a joyful scene of thousands of people watching lanterns. In the first year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1875), a man named Mai, who had not had children for 8 years after marriage, accompanied his wife to watch the lanterns on the ninth day of the first lunar month of that year. After walking in the bustling crowd for about 30 minutes, his wife felt a little uncomfortable, so he helped her sit on a stone exposed on the ground. She felt very comfortable. After returning home, she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was very smart. From then on, people called this stone "birth stone". Every year, thousands of people came to sit on the birth stone during the Lantern Festival. Since then, the Lantern Festival has become more prosperous. Every year during the Lantern Festival, every local household prepares wine and food to welcome relatives and friends. Shangbian Village hangs up birthday banners, sets up birthday banquets, and sets hundreds of tables to respect the elderly. Whether they are rich gentry or poor families, they all come to watch the lanterns. Folks from Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and far away in Southeast Asia return to their hometowns in advance to watch the lanterns and talk about their hometown feelings. During the Republic of China, lion dances and dramas were performed at the Lantern Festival. People from the neighbors were invited to join the stage to show their joy. In the year after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, many dignitaries from the province, Hong Kong and Macao came to visit the Lantern Festival. After the reform and opening up, the Le'an Lantern Festival has become more prosperous. The lanterns are of many varieties and exquisite craftsmanship, which can be called first-class. Merchants from Guangzhou, Foshan, Pingzhou, Yanbu, and Nanzhuang have already selected the venue and set up the scaffolding to sell lanterns. There are so many varieties of lanterns that some people roughly estimate that there are more than 3,000 varieties. In addition to Chinese people, there are also foreign experts and friends who come to see the lanterns. In recent years, more than 100 foreign friends have been received. They come from more than 20 countries. In 2006, more than 80,000 people came from all over the country to see the lanterns. To this day, there is still an endless stream of believers who come to Luocun Le'an to sit on the birth stone in order to have a child, and there are even foreign friends among them. The villagers in Le'an area have turned on the lanterns on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and the ceremony of celebrating the lanterns on the fifteenth day has become a custom. The Le'an Lantern Festival flourished in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and flourished in the late Qing Dynasty. The patterns of lanterns are mainly lotus lanterns (symbolizing flowers blooming and wealth, Guanyin giving birth to children), orange lanterns (symbolizing good luck), carp lanterns (symbolizing fish leaping over the dragon gate), and octagonal lanterns (symbolizing good fortune). At the beginning of the 21st century, new folk customs were added. The original purpose of offering sacrifices was changed to decoration and appreciation. For example, lotus lanterns are paired with lotus roots to represent a happy couple and a perfect match; paired with taro mushrooms to represent having a son; paired with lotus awnings to represent harvest; paired with "hairpin flowers" to represent the top scorer in the imperial examination; paired with pheasant tails to represent the demeanor of a general. Double-petal lotus represents great wealth and is very popular with customers. In order to inherit and develop local characteristic crafts, promote local culture, and build a cultural town, Luocun Street Office held the "Times Real Estate Cup" Lantern Creation Competition in 2006, held a press conference, and rewarded the production artists with a large sum of money. Hundreds of sets of lantern mascots were refined. In addition to a small number of gifts, they were publicly auctioned and all the proceeds were used to help poor families. The Street Youth League Committee held many lantern making lectures and organized lantern making training courses to train students free of charge. The Street Office and the local village committee invited overseas Chinese and Hong Kong and Macao compatriots to return to their hometowns to reminisce about their hometown, exchange economic information, and discuss cooperation projects. It is planned to expand the venue of the Lantern Festival in 2007, add more activities and improve the environment to make the Lantern Festival perfect and become a bright business card of Luocun.