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Information about the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first lunar month, which is one of the traditional festivals in China. The 15th day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals of Chinese in China and overseas. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

The festivals and customs activities of the Lantern Festival are extended and expanded with the development of history. As far as the length of the festival is concerned, it was only one day in the Han Dynasty, three days in the Tang Dynasty and five days in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the lights were lit from the eighth day until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month, which is the longest lantern festival in China history.

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The development history of Lantern Festival

1. During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's "Shangxin Night" in Ganquan Palace was regarded by later generations as the prelude to offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month.

2. In the Tang Dynasty, putting on lanterns on Lantern Festival became a legal thing and gradually became a folk custom.

3. In the Song Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was called Lantern Festival.

4. In the Qing Dynasty, it was called Lantern Festival.

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