The 15th day of the first month is the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengmu, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, falls on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, and is the last important festival in the Chinese Spring Festival annual custom. The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China and the Chinese Character Cultural Circle area, as well as among overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the "night" "night", so the first full-moon night of the year on the 15th day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival.
The night of the Lantern Festival is like daytime, which was a lively scene a thousand years ago, due to the ancient curfew system, there is no recreational activities at night. But the night of the Lantern Festival is a special case, the lanterns lit at night as bright as day, it is rare for people to go out at night to enjoy the beauty of this. In addition to simply enjoying the lanterns, there are also riddles and fireworks and a variety of interesting juggling, our current activities. The custom of enjoying lanterns has a long history, but guessing lantern riddles is to the Tang and Song dynasties only appeared Lantern Festival activities, has been interviewed on the popularity of the people, to the present enduring.