Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first lunar month, which is one of the traditional festivals in China. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China and overseas Chinese. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

The festivals and customs of Lantern Festival have been extended and expanded with the development of history. As far as the length of festivals is concerned, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the lights were on from the eighth day to the seventeenth night, which was the longest Lantern Festival in the history of China.

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The Development History of Lantern Festival

1. During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sacrificed "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the "Xin Ye" in the first month, which was regarded by later generations as the precursor of offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month.

2. In the Tang Dynasty, it became a legal thing to set off lanterns on the Lantern Festival and gradually became a folk custom.

In Song Dynasty, Lantern Festival was called Lantern Festival.

In Qing dynasty, it was also called Lantern Festival.

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