The Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, is also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little First Moon, the New Year's Eve or the Lantern Festival. The time is the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" as "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist saying of "three yuan", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". The Lantern Festival custom has been based on the warm and festive lantern watching custom since ancient times.

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, which is rooted in the ancient folk custom of turning on lights to pray for blessings. According to the general data and folk legends, the 15th day of the first month has been paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty, but the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month really became a national folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties.

Happy Lantern Festival

Enjoy the full moon and the Lantern Festival.

The lanterns are brightly colored and happy;

Dancing dragon lanterns, beating gongs and drums.

Happiness is in charge for you;

Fireworks and dumplings.

Praying and wishing for family reunion.

The traditional customs of the Lantern Festival

Eat Yuanxiao

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the "Lantern Festival" as food has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Fuyuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao". Businessmen also call it "Yuanbao". The Lantern Festival, or "Tangyuan", is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, cinnamon, walnut, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and wrapped into a round shape with glutinous rice flour. It can be meat or vegetable, with different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried in oil, steamed, and has the meaning of reunion. Shaanxi Tangyuan is not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, hot fire, round and round.

Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the "Lantern Festival", which is also known as the Lantern Festival because of the folk customs of hanging, lighting and watching lanterns. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom of the Lantern Festival, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lights prevailed throughout the ages and passed on to later generations. The 15th day of the first month is the climax of the annual fireworks display.