The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Lantern Festival, etc., is a relatively grand traditional festival, mainly based on the warm and festive custom of appreciating the lanterns, as well as eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, setting off fireworks, lion dances, dragon lantern dances, stepping on stilts, twisting Yangge, swimming dragon lanterns and other customs, echoing before and after the Spring Festival, lively and extraordinary. Among them, the dragon lantern dance is a large-scale collective sport, with procedures such as tying dragons, tying lanterns, painting dragons, singing dragon songs, and practicing dragon dances. It is also the main element of the Lantern Festival illustration in this issue. I wish you all a prosperous Year of the Dragon, the spirit of the Dragon Horse, and a happy Lantern Festival. 
The "dragon lantern" in the painting refers to the lanterns in the ancient paintings, the colors in the ancient paintings are darker, and the light of the lanterns cannot be seen, so the colors and details have been adjusted, becoming mainly red and yellow, and a lot of small lights have been added to the dragon body, making the whole brighter. The details are that the dragon's head dragon beard dragon's eyes have been repainted, the mouth is opened larger, the eyes are brighter, and a dragon ball is added to enhance the overall movement and depict the feeling of the lantern glowing. 
The costume styles of the dragon dance lantern are also very rich, and the costumes worn by the boys and girls in the small painting are also one of the dragon dance lanterns, and some places will tie red ribbons on the head or waist, and then draw a few auspicious clouds, after all, the dragon can live in the clouds. The dragon saw the tail and did not see the head, so only the dragon head was exposed in the separate version of the painting of the boys and girls, which was also for compositional considerations. The double version has a complete dragon body and dragon tail, one for boys to dance the dragon head, the other for the girls to dance the dragon tail, and the other to the other in reverse. 
The Lantern Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years and is an important part of Chinese folk customs, and in June 2008, the Lantern Festival was included in the "Second Batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritage List". In fact, there are many kinds of lanterns in the Lantern Festival, the lanterns are vivid, some are the shape of small animals, and there are also characters and elements in the story and legend, you can customize the shape and color you like, it can be seen that the ancient weaving lantern skills have been very skilled, and the craftsmen are exquisite. In addition, there will be a "sky lantern" event. 
Eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it has been passed down from ancient times to the present, and the flavors are varied, and the Lantern Festival stuffing is also complicated. It is generally cooked, but it can also be fried or steamed, and the round Lantern Festival symbolizes the meaning of reunion. The soup is full and the moon is round, happy Lantern Festival! February** Dynamic Incentive Program