When is the Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

Lantern Festival is not a national statutory festival, but a traditional festival with a long history in China. Lantern Festival viewing began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Emperor Han Ming advocated Buddhism. It is said that on the fifteenth day of the first month, the monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship the Buddha, so they ordered to light lamps in palaces and temples that night, so that the gentry and ordinary people could hang them. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival.