Can I invite friends to dinner on Lantern Festival?

You can't invite people to dinner on Lantern Festival.

Dinner at the Lantern Festival will send away wealth, because the Lantern Festival represents reunion. On this day, people eat with their families, so it is not good to invite friends to eat. Although many people get together with the development of the times, we can't invite friends to dinner. Lantern Festival is not far from the Spring Festival, and it also represents the beginning of a new year. If you invite people to dinner on the Lantern Festival, it means that you will invite other people's guests this year and take away your wealth. So you can choose another time.

The custom of the lantern festival

Every year, the Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the year, so on this night, people will enjoy the moon, set off fireworks, light solve riddles on the lanterns on lanterns, eat Yuanxiao, play with dragon lanterns, play with lions, walk on stilts, row dry boats, dance yangko, play Taiping drum and other traditional folk performances. Therefore, we should eat dumplings on the Lantern Festival, which represents reunion and happiness, watch lanterns and stay away from all diseases, that is, stay up late, travel together and meet each other across the bridge, so that we can get rid of illness and prolong life, and single friends can move around more, which can improve peach blossom luck.

Brief introduction of lantern festival

Every year, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival. This is a traditional festival for China people and a festival for China people to get together. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.