What is the significance of Lantern Festival?

The significance of Lantern Festival Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is regarded as the last climax of the Spring Festival, because after this day, people really enter the new year's production and life, so people all over the country celebrate the Lantern Festival and pray for God to bless the good weather and bumper crops in the coming year, which also expresses people's good expectations for the new year. Because of this, China has the folk custom of "Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month".

Traditional festivals that have been passed down for more than 2,000 years are not only popular in the north and south of the country, but also celebrated every year in areas where overseas Chinese live in concentrated communities. During the Lantern Festival, people will go out of their homes and pour into the streets. In addition to lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns, there are dragon dances, lion dances, walking on stilts, boating and beating Zhoushan gongs and drums ... Among them, many customs and activities are national intangible cultural heritage. Go out to enjoy the moon, light lamps and set fires, enjoy riddles, eat Yuanxiao, and celebrate festivals together, so that the masses can participate and enjoy the aesthetic memories left by these intangible cultural heritages.

Lantern Festival is a process in which people constantly expand their activities and interpersonal relationships. Pay New Year greetings to parents on the first day and the next day. In the future, we will gradually expand the scope of New Year greetings to ordinary relatives and friends. During this period, people's activities are limited to acquaintances.