Why doesn't the Lantern Festival, an important traditional festival, have a holiday on the fifteenth day of the first month?

Because it is too close to the Spring Festival holiday, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is an important traditional festival after the New Year. After this day, the new year is over.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called it "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Besides eating glutinous rice balls, enjoying lanterns, playing dragon lanterns, dancing lions and solve riddles on the lanterns, the Lantern Festival is also an auspicious day.

According to "A Brief History of Monks", Buddha Sakyamuni appeared on February 30, 65438, that is, on the fifteenth day of the first month in Dongtu. In order to commemorate the Buddha's change of god, a lantern burning ceremony will be held on this day.

When Emperor Hanming came to lecture in the East, Morten Zhuflange ordered Emperor Hanming to put up lanterns at 15 o'clock in the first month of the Buddha's transition, and personally went to the temple to decorate the lanterns to show his respect for the Buddha.