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How did the ancients spend the Lantern Festival?

I have been to Yuanxiao mainly by lighting lanterns, enjoying flowers, solve riddles on the lanterns and the moon.

The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of this year, and enjoying the moon is naturally a great pleasure of the Lantern Festival. When "rabbit" and "moon" are naturally linked, it is probably the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. Therefore, the laurel rabbit in the middle of the month is a common form in Mid-Autumn Festival painting. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the moon is high in the sky and thousands of lanterns are hung on the ground. People rushed to the market, brightly lit, full of Lantern Festival and lively atmosphere, so it has become a traditional custom to watch lanterns, enjoy the moon, light fireworks, eat supper, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" as "night", and the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival", and the date is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.