When is the Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first lunar month, which is a traditional festival in China. Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month is an important traditional festival in China. This day was called Shangyuan in ancient times, and its night was called Yuanye, Yuanxi or Yuanxiao. In ancient China, there was a close relationship between the calendar and the moon phases. There is a full moon on 15 every month, which is called "full moon".

The full moon symbolizes a happy reunion. On the fifteenth day of the first month, people ushered in the first full moon night of the year, which is naturally regarded as an auspicious day. According to records, as early as the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial court offered sacrifices to Taiyi God (the Emperor of Heaven) and prayed for blessings on the fifteenth day of the first month. According to the folk tradition in China, on this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate.

Lantern Festival, a popular area of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival (the custom of nine river lanterns) is mainly distributed in the north of China. Among various formation structures, the "Zhong Jiu" formation is representative. The custom of Jiuqu Yellow River Lantern is widely distributed in more than ten provinces and cities such as Shanxi, Hebei, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Beijing and Liaoning.

In addition to the abbreviations of the Yellow River and the Yellow River Jiuqu, there are many common names in various places, such as stringing the Yellow River, running the Yellow River, turning to the Yellow River, turning to Jiuqu, traveling to Jiuqu, Jiuqu Festival, Lantern Festival, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Northern Shaanxi is often called "disturbing the old religion", Inner Mongolia is called "Jiuqu Sheng Hui" and "Jiuqu Lantern Festival", and southern Shaanxi is called "ground lamp". There are also _ word lantern arrays (Mancheng, Hebei, Yongchang, Gansu, Shouxian, Anhui) and lantern ecstasy arrays (Lixin, Anhui) which also belong to the custom of the nine-song Yellow River Lantern.