Significance of the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar New Year: Auspiciousness, family reunion, and also people's good wishes for the future life.
On the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, is the last important festival in the Chinese New Year annual custom. Lantern Festival with warm and festive folk connotation and reunion romantic cultural connotation, in the traditional Chinese culture of the year shine, is loved by the people of China's traditional festivals. The Lantern Festival emphasizes the "universal celebration".
The Lantern Festival is regarded as the final climax of the Spring Festival, because after this day, people will really enter a new year of production life, so people in the Lantern Festival celebrated all the people, in order to pray to God to bless the next year of good weather, good crops, which also expresses the people's good expectations for the New Year. Because of this, there is a custom in Chinese folklore to celebrate the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar.
Customs of the Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is regarded as the final climax of the Spring Festival, because after this day, people will really enter a new year's production life, so people celebrate in the Lantern Festival, in order to pray for God's blessing of the coming year, the wind and rain, a good harvest, which also expresses the people's good hope for the New Year. Because of this, there is a custom in Chinese folklore to celebrate the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar.
Juggling dragon lanterns, also known as "dragon dance", has a history of more than 2,000 years. The origin of the dragon dance is the worship of the dragon. In ancient times, people prayed for the blessing of the dragon by dancing the dragon in order to pray for good weather and good harvests in the coming year.