What are the activities of Foshan Lantern Festival?

The activities of Foshan Lantern Festival include a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating jiaozi and solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.

Lantern Festival is a unique custom tradition of China people, and it is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.

In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.

During the Lantern Festival, "Poverty Alleviation" became the largest folk activity with the largest number of participants. On the 15th to 16th day of the first month, Foshan citizens walked across Tongji Bridge from north to south, holding windmills, shaking wind chimes and carrying lanterns to pray for peace and prosperity in the coming year.

Introduction of Lantern Festival holiday

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival, but it is not a legal holiday, so there will be no holiday unless the weekend coincides with other legal holidays.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of 2023, Lantern Festival falls on February 5th of the Gregorian calendar, and this Sunday is a public holiday, so you can have a rest. After all, it is Sunday time.

At night, besides gorgeous lanterns, fireworks are another beautiful scenery. Many families set off fireworks from the Spring Festival until the Lantern Festival. Some local governments also organize fireworks parties. At night, when the first full moon of the New Year comes out, people will be intoxicated by the gorgeous fireworks and the bright moon in the sky.