Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival, Tianguan Festival, Spring Lantern Festival, Xiaoyuanyi and Yuanxi.

Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first lunar month every year, which is one of the traditional festivals in China. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" as "night". The 15th day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". Yuanxiao was only called the 15th day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the full moon when the early festivals were formed, and it was called Yuanxi or Yuanye after Sui.

Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, and it was only in the late Tang Dynasty that it was occasionally called Yuanxiao. But it has also been called Dengxi since the Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, it was also called Lantern Festival. On the night of the 15th day of the first month, people in China have a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, eating Yuanxiao, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.

The custom of the lantern festival

1, lantern. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which started in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the wind of lights prevailed in past dynasties and was passed down to later generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual lantern fireworks.

2. Eat Yuanxiao. Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Floating Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". The North "rolls" Yuanxiao and the South "wraps" Tangyuan, which are two foods with different practices and tastes.