On the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth day of the first month, the lights in Taigu City, the lights along the street, the lights in the small house in the courtyard and the lights outside the temple are all decorated with colorful lights, which are beautiful and pleasing to the eye. People watching lanterns are like rivers, like tides, rubbing shoulders and staying up all night. Some activities in solve riddles on the lanterns need longer time. In the evening, there are still folk music performances, pushing the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival to a climax.

Step 2 welcome god

On the morning of New Year's Day, every household will hold a ceremony to greet God, which is about five o'clock in the morning. Before dawn, people light the grass prepared in the yard one day in advance. This is actually the straw of some crops, which is different from many places in Shanxi.