Yuan Xiao Jie - Lantern Festival
🎊 Folk Festival 🌙 The fifteenth day of the first lunar month

✨ Yuan Xiao Jie - Lantern Festival

📅 1 day 📍 All over the country

📝 Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year, with lanterns, riddles and Yuanxiao as the main features.

🏮 Cultural Significance

Lantern Festival marks the successful conclusion of the Spring Festival celebration and is an important festival to showcase Chinese culture.

📚 Historical Background

Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, initially to worship the gods Taiyi, and later developed into a happy festival of watching the lanterns and playing with the moon.

🎭 Festival Customs & Traditions

🔸 Flower viewing lamp

Watch all kinds of lanterns

🎋 viewing lamp 🎋 Guessing lantern riddles 🎋 Dragon Dance Lantern

🔸 Eat Lantern Festival

Taste sweet dumplings

🎋 Boiled Tangyuan 🎋 Taste the Tangyuan 🎋 Family reunion

🎉 Festival Activities

  • 🌟 Ornamental lantern
  • 🌟 Guessing lantern riddles
  • 🌟 Taste the Lantern Festival
  • 🌟 Dragon and Lion Dance

Cultural Features of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is the last important festival in the Spring Festival series, showcasing the wisdom and creativity of the Chinese nation.

Lantern Festival Culture

The Lantern Festival is an important part of the festival, and the lantern art in various places showcases unique local characteristics and folk crafts.

Food culture

Yuanxiao (Tangyuan) symbolizes reunion and is an indispensable delicacy during festivals, reflecting the importance Chinese people place on reunion.