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Hanging lanterns is a traditional festival.

The traditional festival of hanging lanterns is Spring Festival. Hanging lanterns in the New Year is a deep-rooted folk custom and an indispensable part of the flavor of the year. Spring Festival lanterns in China are also called lanterns. Every year around the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people hang Spring Festival lanterns symbolizing reunion to create a festive atmosphere.

Spring Festival, that is, China Lunar New Year, is commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year's Eve and so on. Verbally, it is also called Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong regional characteristics. These activities are rich and colorful, which have condensed the essence of China traditional culture, mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and disturb disasters, offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year.