What is the festival on January 15th

January 15th is the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengmu, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional Chinese festivals, the time for the first month of the first five days of the lunar calendar every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth is the first full moon in a year, so the first month of the fifteenth for the "Lantern Festival".

The formation of the Lantern Festival custom has a long process, according to general information and folklore, the 15th of the first month in the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance to the first month of the Han Emperor on the night of the first month of the Xin night in the Ganquan Palace sacrifices "Taichi" activities, was seen as the first day of the first month of the 15th of the first day of the God of heaven. However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month as a folk festival is really after the Han Wei Dynasty. The custom of burning lanterns on the 15th day of the first month is related to the spread of Buddhism to the east. During the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism flourished, officials and people generally in the first month of the fifteenth day of the "lamp for Buddha", the Buddhist lamps and lanterns were spread throughout the people. From the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival that became a legal thing, and gradually become a folk custom.