The fifteenth day of the first month generally refers to the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyian Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

Significance of the Lantern Festival

1, the lion dance in the Lantern Festival symbolizes good luck, thus pinning the people's good wishes to eliminate disasters and seek Jinafu in the lion dance activities.

2. Poplar branches are inserted into the door during the Lantern Festival, which symbolizes the birth of Yang energy.

3. On the Lantern Festival, the whole family eats glutinous rice balls together. The sound of "glutinous rice balls" is similar to that of "reunion", which symbolizes reunion and harmony.

4. There are many religious activities in the Lantern Festival, praying for the blessing of the gods. It symbolizes people's desire for a better life.

5. Lantern Festival can be said to be an authentic Valentine's Day in China. Because of the opening of the ancient Lantern Festival, the crowds were woven and men and women met, which was easy to produce love. For thousands of years, two of a kind's love stories staged in the Lantern Festival are endless.

6. The cultural value of Lantern Festival is that it is a carnival for all people, and everyone participates and enjoys it.

7. When the Lantern Festival came, the festival economy was stirred up.