How to say Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival in English is: the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, which is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar every year. The word "yuan" means "first" or "first", and the 15th day of the first month is the first full moon of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Ancient people called "night", also called "night", after the Sui Dynasty, the first month of the fifteenth for the first night or night, the end of the Tang Dynasty began to call "Lantern Festival", the Song Dynasty, also known as "lamp evening", the Qing Dynasty, also known as the first night of the first month of the first year of the Chinese lunar calendar. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Lantern Festival began to evolve from a religious festival into an entertaining carnival, with activities reaching a peak. The Five Dynasties, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties continued this revelry.

The Song Dynasty extended the celebration from three days to five or six days, and the Ming Dynasty extended it to ten days. During the Qing Dynasty, the palace no longer held lantern festivals, but the folk remained lively and the time was reduced to four to five days. There are many legends about the origin of the Lantern Festival, the earliest record is the sacrifice of Taiyi said that the more widely circulated is the Taoist "Sanyuan" said that, according to this statement, the first month of the fifteenth day is also known as the "Festival of the first yuan".

The origin of the Lantern Festival

Legend has it that during the Han Dynasty, on the night of the Lantern Festival, the emperor and the empress personally went to the palace garden to enjoy the lanterns. A child named Yuanbao got lost in the sea of lanterns, and when the emperor learned of this, he immediately ordered a search for Yuanbao. Eventually, at the emperor's order, officials of all sizes in the palace went looking for him with lanterns.

The Empress invented a paper lantern called "Bao Lantern" to help find Yuanbao, and asked people to light it to show that they were looking for it. In the end, the emperor and the people in the palace found the lost Yuanbao. In honor of this momentous occasion, the 15th day of the first month of the Han Dynasty became the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival is a festival of joy and reunion, where people set off lanterns, enjoy the moon, have family reunions, and eat soup dumplings (i.e., Yuanxiao) together to pray for happiness and good luck. At the same time, the Lantern Festival is also one of the important parts of traditional Chinese culture.