Things you need to know about the Lantern Festival

What is the lantern festival?

Lantern Festival symbolizes the 15th day as well as the end of Chinese Spring festival.

The whole Chinese Spring festival is to pray for a sound and prosperous New Year and enjoy the feast of a family reunion. After the Lantern Festival, people will go back to work.

What do people usually do for the celebration?

Eating Small Dumpling Balls

Just as the name implies, an important part of the Lantern Festival is to eat small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour. We call these balls Yuan Xiao, or Tang Yuan. Obviously, they get the name from the festival itself. Made of sticky rice flour filled with sweet or salty stuffing and round in shape, the dumpling symbolizes family unity, completeness, and happiness. Sweet fillings are made of sugar, walnuts, sesame, rose petals, sweetened tangerine peel, bean paste or jujube paste.

Dragon Dance

The dragon dance, a form of traditional dance and performance in Chinese culture, is often seen in some festival celebrations. The dance is performed by a team of dancers who manipulate a long flexible figure of a dragon using poles positioned at regular intervals along the length of the dragon. The dance team mimics the supposed movements of this river spirit in a sinuous, undulating manner.

Watching Fireworks

In the daytime, there are performances, such as the dragon lantern dance and some will walk on stilts and beat drums while dancing. At night, in addition to magnificent lighted lanterns, fireworks form a grand scene. Most families save some fireworks from the Spring Festival and set them off during the Lantern Festival. On the night when the first full moon enters the New Year, people become really intoxicated by the imposing fireworks and bright moon in the sky.

Guessing Lantern Riddles

When it comes to the Lantern Festival, Guessing lantern riddles is an essential component. Lantern owners will write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns in advance. If visitors can answer the riddles, they can just pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answers. If they are right, they will get a little gift. The riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular among all social strata.

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