The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" as "night", the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so called the fifteenth day of the "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "three yuan", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been dominated by the custom of viewing lanterns in a warm and festive way.
The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, rooted in the folk lights to pray for good luck. According to the general information and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month in the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance, but the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival really as a national folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties.
The rise of the custom of burning lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month is also related to the east transmission of Buddhism, Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, officials and people generally in the fifteenth day of the day "burning lanterns for Buddha", Buddhist lights throughout the folk, since the Tang Dynasty, lantern lantern is a legal thing.
Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles and setting off fireworks. In addition, many places have added the Lantern Festival dragon lantern, lion dance, stilt walking, land boat rowing, Yangko dance, playing Taiping drum and other traditional folk performances. In June 2008, Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
