What is the traditional festival of the Lantern Festival?

A song of pianos and songs in the spring like the sea, a thousand doors and lights night like the New Year is a traditional festival of the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Festival, also known as the "Festival of Lanterns" or Lantern Festival, is the first after the Spring Festival of the first important festival.

Meaning a festive song of spring as the ocean, thousands of lights at night as lively as the New Year. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon of the year and the continuation of people's celebration of the New Year. And at the Lantern Festival, eating lanterns, enjoying lanterns, guessing riddles, playing dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walkers, rice-planting songs and other activities culminate in the lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival.

The origin of the Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Lantern Festival, which is also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Night of Lanterns, and the Festival of Lights. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancient people called the night for "night", so the first month of the fifteenth for the Lantern Festival. The 15th day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, but also the beginning of the year, the night of the earth back to spring, people celebrate this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the New Year.

The formation of the Lantern Festival 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 day of the Sin in the Ganquan Palace to sacrifice to "Taiyi" of the activities of the later as the first day of the 15th of the first month of the first day of the gods of the precursor. The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty, for the formation of the Lantern Festival has an important significance.