The significance of Lantern Festival is a happy family reunion. On the Lantern Festival, the whole family eats glutinous rice balls together. "Tangyuan" sounds similar to "reunion", symbolizing reunion and harmony. On the night of Lantern Festival, the moon is high and the clouds are light. On the surface, people watch lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Lantern Festival, and the whole family is happy, but in essence, it is the cultural value embodied in the folk customs handed down from generation to generation in China. The traditional festival customs in China have adapted to the comprehensive needs of the broad masses of people in China in material, spiritual, ethical and aesthetic aspects.

There are many symbolic activities in the Lantern Festival. For example, sending children lanterns, also referred to as "sending lanterns", means that before the Lantern Festival, parents send lanterns to their newly-married daughters, or ordinary relatives and friends give them to their newly-married infertile families in order to add auspiciousness, because "lamp" is homophonic with "Ding".

There are also dragon lanterns, also known as dragon lanterns or dragon dances. The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays. According to Sui Shu Le, Huanglongbian, which is similar to the dragon dance performance in Yang Di's hundred operas, is also very wonderful, and dragon dance is popular in many places in China. China worships dragons, and thinks that dragons are auspicious symbols.

On the Lantern Festival, people will also hold a ceremony to celebrate the lantern festival, so it is also called "blessing lamp" or "safety lamp". Later, it gradually evolved into a folk activity of praying to heaven. The sky lantern is filled with all kinds of wishes in my heart, hoping that the sky lantern can go to heaven and bring infinite hope and light to people.