Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little First Moon, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.
The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" as "xiao". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in the year. According to Taoism "Sanyuan", the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". The Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times.
The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals have also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walking, dry boat rowing, Yangko twisting, and Taiping drums. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
