The picture shows the villagers dragging their children and women with 2 to 4 lanterns, and lighting the lanterns in their hands at the fire collection point - Chanchengban, the ancestor of the surname Gao.
Photo by Zhang Lingxin
Jianfeng Gao's custom of lighting lamps first began in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty and has a long history of nearly a thousand years. Every year, before the Lantern Festival on the first lunar month, auspicious days are selected to light lamps.
Photo by Zhang Lingxin
The picture shows villagers lighting lanterns with kindling at the collection point.
Photo by Zhang Lingxin
The picture shows villagers lighting lanterns with kindling at the collection point.
Photo by Zhang Lingxin
The picture shows villagers lighting lanterns with kindling at the collection point.
Photo by Zhang Lingxin
The picture shows the villagers who came to collect fire.
Photo by Zhang Lingxin
On January 29, in Jianfeng Village, Datian County, Fujian Province, villagers used fire to light lanterns in Chanchengban, the ancestral land of Gao.
The local dialect "deng" and "ding" are homophonic, and Gao's clan members lit lamps to pray for the prosperity of the people, the harvest of the five grains, and the good wishes of both wealth and honor.
Jianfeng Gao's custom of lighting lamps first began in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty and has a long history of nearly a thousand years. Every year, before the Lantern Festival on the first lunar month, auspicious days are selected to light lamps.