Things you can do during the Lantern Festival are as follows: 1. Eat glutinous rice balls.

Eating glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a traditional custom.

"Tangyuan" is stuffed with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and is wrapped into a round shape with glutinous rice flour. It can be meat or vegetarian and has different flavors.

Tangyuan can be boiled, fried, or steamed. It has the meaning of happy reunion and expresses longing for relatives far away.

2. Appreciate lanterns and guess lantern riddles.

The "Lantern Festival" is also called the "Lantern Festival". Buddhism was introduced to China during the Ming Dynasty of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to show respect for the Buddha, the court called on the people to light lanterns on the Lantern Festival.

In the Tang Dynasty, not only did the people light lanterns to celebrate, but even the emperor would go out of the palace to conduct "miniature lantern viewings" and even "let thousands of palace maids watch the lanterns."

To this day, the custom of viewing lanterns still exists.

3. Lion dance.

Lion dance is a folk art in my country. During the Lantern Festival, people will perform lion dance to add to the fun.

This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a history of more than a thousand years.