it is often lit to ward off bad luck
umm... CHINA.
Their Lanterns are one of many technologies that they have made,Their Lantern's have riddles on them but our's right now are just normal lanterns for light but the lanterns there were mostly for festivals,ceremonies, and celebrations mostly.
you go to china town and put it in the lanterns
People in China have Chinese lanterns because it let's the bad luck go away and gives them good luck, as they (meaning Chinese people who celebrate it) wrote their wishes on the lantern.Search up on this website (wiki answers) the question "Why do they have Chinese lantern festivals" and read what it says.
they don't because china doesn't exist it is now called fruti tutti island
One word... Lanterns
Christians in China celebrate by lighting their houses with beautiful paper lanterns and decorating their Christmas trees, which they call "Trees of Light," with paper chains, paper flowers, and paper lanterns.
having festival dinner with family, eat mooncakes, play lanterns
Chinese and different people in china make lanterns and let them go and eat food.
In China, there is no Christmas. However, recent years people started to celebrate Christmas everywhere. I live in US. I hang small red silk lanterns on my Christmas tree.
lanterns are mainly red in China because in Chinese culture, people believe red can bring people good luck so red lanterns means family unity, success in business, fortune, brightness, energy, perfection and wealth....
Copper lanterns may be more lightweight than lanterns made of other materials, but they are more difficult to clean. Copper lanterns, however, are useful to be used outdoors, for decorative and utilitarian reasons, because so many copper lanterns lit with candle are available.