When to eat Lantern Festival ? In the morning ? Noon ? Evening ? According to the custom .

The Lantern Festival is usually eaten at 6:00 p.m., but also as a late-night snack.

The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengmu, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, is held on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon in the year, so the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month for the "Lantern Festival". According to Taoism's "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month is also known as the "Festival of the Upper Elements". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, according to general information and folklore, the 15th day of the first month in the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance to the Han Emperor's first month of the first night of the Xin night in the Ganquan Palace to sacrifice to "Taiyi" activities, was later regarded as the first day of the first month of the 15th day of the gods of the precursor. However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is really a folk festival after the Han Dynasty.

The custom of burning lanterns on the 15th day of the first month is related to the eastward spread of Buddhism. During the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism flourished, and officials and people generally "burned lamps for Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first month, and Buddhist lamps were then spread throughout the people. From the Tang Dynasty onwards, the Lantern Festival that has become a legal thing, and gradually become a folk custom.