The Lantern Festival is on what day of the month on the lunar calendar?

The Lantern Festival is the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of the New Year, the Night of Lanterns and the Festival of Lights, is a traditional Chinese festival that is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. According to Chinese folk tradition, on this day the moon is high in the night, people want to light up ten thousand colored lanterns, to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and setting off fireworks, guessing lantern riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, family reunion, celebrating the festival, a happy and harmonious.

Lunar New Year's Eve

Lunar New Year's Eve festival and festival activities, is with the development of history and the prolongation, expansion. In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is since the eighth light, until the night of the first month of the seventeenth before the lights, the whole ten days. With the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular. Especially the delicate, colorful lights.

The folk custom of eating Lantern Festival. Lanterns are made of glutinous rice, either solid or with filling. The fillings include bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, and various kinds of fruits, etc. They can be boiled, fried, steamed, or deep-fried when eaten. At first, people called this food "floating rounds", and later called "soup dumplings" or "soup dumplings", the names "reunion These names "reunion" sound similar to the word, take the meaning of reunion, symbolizing the family reunion, harmony and happiness.

Reference for the above:Baidu Encyclopedia - Lantern Festival