Information about the Lantern Festival

1, Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first lunar month and one of the traditional festivals in China. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first complete night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals of China and overseas Chinese. It 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. Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

3. The festival cycle and customs of Lantern Festival have been continuously extended and expanded with the development of history. In terms of festivals, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. Ming Dynasty is the longest Lantern Festival in the history of China, from the eighth day of the first month to the seventeenth day of the first month.

Second, the development history of the Lantern Festival

1, Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty worshipped Taiyi in Ganquan Palace on the first day of the first month, and was considered as the forerunner of offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month.

2. In the Tang Dynasty, Lantern Festival lighting became a legal thing and gradually became a folk custom.

In Song Dynasty, Lantern Festival was called Lantern Festival.