What does Shangyuan Festival mean? When is Shangyuan Festival? What day is today?

Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, and also the Chinese character cultural circle in China and the area of overseas Chinese.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month "Lantern Festival". With the changes of society and times, the custom of Lantern Festival has changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.

Yuanxiao was only called the fifteenth day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the full moon when the early festivals were formed, and it was called Yuanxi or Yuanye after Sui Dynasty. Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, but it was only occasionally called Yuanxiao in the late Tang Dynasty. But since the Song Dynasty, it has also been called Dunhill Road.

In the Qing dynasty, it was also called the Lantern Festival. In foreign countries, Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. On the evening of the 15th day of the first month, people in China have a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, eating Yuanxiao, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.