Good words to describe the Lantern Festival

Good words to describe the Lantern Festival: family reunion, reunion, family joy, family beauty, bright lights, lights and colors, and so on.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the small first month, Yuanxi or the Festival of Lights, takes place on the fifteenth day of the first month 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 night of the year, so the first month of the fifteenth for the "Lantern Festival". According to Taoism's "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month is also known as the "Festival of the Upper Elements". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, rooted in the ancient folk custom of turning on the lanterns to pray for blessings. According to general information and folklore, the 15th day of the first lunar month was already emphasized in the Western Han Dynasty, but the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month really became a national folk festival after the Han Dynasty and Wei Dynasty.

The rise of the custom of burning lamps on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also related to the spread of Buddhism to the east, the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism flourished, civil servants and people in general on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, "burning lamps for the Buddha", Buddhist lamps were spread all over the folk, from the Tang Dynasty, the lanterns on the lanterns has become a legal thing.

The Lantern Festival is one of China's traditional festivals. The Lantern Festival mainly has a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating dumplings, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, in many places, the Lantern Festival has also increased the number of traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walkers, rowing dry boats, twisting rice-planting songs, playing the peace drums, etc. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as one of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritages.