The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, Shangyuan Festival, Spring Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, the small first month, Yuan Xi, for the first month of the lunar calendar every year on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese New Year, is the first after the Spring Festival, is China is also the Chinese character cultural circle of the region and one of the traditional festivals of the overseas Chinese, first month of the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients call the night for the night, so the first full-moon night of the first month of the year the first month fifteen is called the Lantern Festival.
The Lantern Festival is characterized by a series of traditional folk activities, such as lanterns, dumplings, riddles and fireworks. In addition, in many places, the Lantern Festival has added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walkers, rowing dry boats, twisting rice-planting songs, and playing peace drums.
According to the Records of the Historical Records_Le Shu, as early as the early Western Han Dynasty, there were ceremonial activities at the court on the 15th day of the first lunar month to sacrifice to Taiyi God (Heavenly Emperor) and pray for blessings. According to Chinese folk tradition, on this night when the moon is high in the sky, people will light up ten thousand colored lanterns to celebrate.