What is the Lantern Festival, its function and significance?

Lantern Festival is an ancient folk culture in China, which generally refers to a large-scale lantern show held by the government from around the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, often accompanied by some folk activities, which is very traditional and local. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, people in China have the custom of watching lanterns.

Function and significance: Lantern Festival is a cultural event integrating exhibition, entertainment, culture, education and international exchange. It is a platform for displaying new ideas, new concepts, new creations and new society; It is a stage to show humanities and science; It is a cultural exchange platform; It is a classroom for the public to accept aesthetic education; It is a cultural living room for international exchange; It is also a bridge connecting people. Therefore, it is the mission and significance of lantern art to promote culture, advocate science, popularize humanistic education through lantern art, educate the public with socialist core values, improve the cultural quality of the whole people, and tell the story of beautiful China at home and abroad. As Mr. Su Bengang of Zigong Tengda Lantern said: "Record the world with lanterns and promote culture with light and shadow."