What kind of festival is the Lantern Festival also called?

The Lantern Festival is also known as the Lantern Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Shangyuan Festival, Spring Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Yuanxi, is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. It is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China is also a region in the cultural circle of Chinese characters and one of the traditional festivals of overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon of the year is called the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals also include traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern parade, lion dance, stilt walking, land boat rowing, Yangko dancing, and Taiping drum playing.

According to "Historical Records_Yueshu", as early as the early Western Han Dynasty, there was a ceremonial activity in the palace to worship Taiyi God (Emperor of Heaven) on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to pray for blessings. According to Chinese folk tradition, on this night when the bright moon hangs high in the sky, people light up thousands of colored lanterns to celebrate.