What is the Lantern Festival?

The poem "the moon on the willow, after dusk" is the Lantern Festival. This verse, which depicts the environment: bright moon and weeping willows, is from the Northern Song poet Ouyang Xiu's "Shengcha Zi - Yuanxi". This poem implicitly expresses a pair of lovers who are devoted to each other, the beautiful and sentimental feelings when they meet at dusk.

The Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, is also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengmu, Yuanxi, and Lantern Festival, which is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar every year.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth is the first full moon in a year, so the first month of the fifteenth for the "Lantern Festival".

The Lantern Festival mainly consists of lanterns, dumplings, riddles, fireworks, dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walkers, rowing boats, rice-planting songs, drums and other traditional folk activities.