Today is the Lantern Festival

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Today is the Lantern Festival

2022-02-15 09:56:29
The Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, is also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the small first month, the new year's Eve or the Lantern Festival. The time is the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year.

The lantern festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as appreciating lanterns, eating dumplings, guessing lantern riddles, setting off fireworks and so on. In addition, many local lantern festivals have also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern, lion dance, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, yangko dance and Taiping drum. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.