What festival is Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival refers to the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. In the lunar calendar, the first month is January, but the ancients called the night dawn, and the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so it is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as Shangyuan Festival. According to the traditional folk custom of the Han nationality, the bright moon is high in the sky on the festival night of Spring Festival.

the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called night night, so the fifteenth day of the first month was called Lantern Festival. With the changes of society and times, the custom of Lantern Festival has changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China. Yuanxiao was only called the fifteenth day of the first month when the early festivals were formed.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lantern Festival