What is the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar called besides the Lantern Festival? What are the customs?

The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengmu, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year.

The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China and the Chinese Character Cultural Circle area, as well as for overseas Chinese. The Lantern Festival is characterized by a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating dumplings, guessing lantern riddles and setting off fireworks.

In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has added traditional folk performances, such as dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, dry boats, rice-planting songs, and drums, etc. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as one of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritages.

Expanded:

The liveliest festival in Old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. The annual Shangyuan Lantern Festival, dragon and lion dances, Old Beijing hawking and other traditional programs of the Lantern Festival that are full of Old Beijing's folklore are a big part of why Old Beijingers look forward to this festival. The traditional Old Beijing Lantern Festival events are mainly composed of 3 parts: the flower show, the lantern show and the eating of Lantern Festival.

One of the more unique Lantern Festival customs in Hebei is the pulling of flowers in Jingfu, which is an ancient artistic wonder. Zanhuang County Lantern Festival custom - "pulling the threshing floor", pulling the threshing floor is a dance that expresses the labor life, the main activity in the Lantern Festival, it is accompanied by percussion.

There are big drums, gongs, cymbals and water cymbals. On the Lantern Festival in Yongpingfu, sick women gather under the kiln, called "Tao Moxibustion". Children staggered degree bridge, called the "degree of hundred Er". There are also people who cut paper into nine paper ropes and tie knots in their hands to divine the future, which is called "Knotting Sheep's Intestines".

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Lantern Festival