Rain and Lantern Festival are on the same day?

Rain and Lantern Festival are not necessarily the same day. Rain is the second of the twenty-four solar terms, which falls around the fifteenth day of the first month of each year.

The 15th day of the first month is the traditional Lantern Festival in China, which is also the last big festival of the annual festival. On this day, it is considered as the end of the New Year, and lanterns are hung and fireworks are set off to celebrate. Legend has it that this festival is a celebration held by people to celebrate the return of Nian beast to the mountains and never to harm the human world, so everyone should set off fireworks to celebrate.

Lantern Festival is a festival calculated according to the traditional calendar of China. It is the first 15th month of the lunar calendar one year later, so it is also called Shangyuan Festival. China also uses the calculation method of the lunar calendar to divide a year into twenty-four solar terms, and change a solar term every fifteen days, so the fifteenth day of the first month also happens to catch up with the conversion of solar terms, which is the handover point between beginning of spring and rain.

Rainwater solar terms are two or three days before and after the fifteenth day of the first month, and this year's rain coincides with the Lantern Festival.

Rain, as one of the 24 solar terms, is also a festival. On this festival, according to the custom, the monk's daughter will bring a piece of red cloth and a can of meat as gifts when she goes back to visit her family. In addition, fried glutinous rice flowers are popular in some areas on this day. According to the quality of fried glutinous rice flowers, the harvest this year is predicted.