Wishes, pictures, and riddles are often added to embellish lanterns during Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year’s celebrations culminate with the Lantern Festival, a glowing spectacle of lanterns, cacophonous firecrackers, and mouthwatering food. Lanterns are hung outside homes and children carry small lanterns during the Lantern Festival.
While modern lanterns come in all shapes and sizes – like paper, bamboo, and metal shaped like spheres, diamonds, animals and cartoon characters – symbolic colors help Chinese New Year revelers’ wishes come true.
Red: Good fortunePink: RomancePeach-red: Decisions and opportunitiesOrange: MoneyYellow: Success in school and/or jobWhite: HealthLight Green: GrowthLight Blue: Hoping something comes trueLight Purple: IdealismAt lantern festivals, like the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in Taiwan, lanterns of varying colors and sizes are for sale. Revelers will choose the color that expresses their wishes and then write their corresponding wishes on the lantern. At some lantern festivals, the lanterns are launched like hot air balloons into the night sky.
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