The Lantern festival other-wise call the festival of spring

The lantern festival is celebrated in the new year,early January. What exactly is this holiday?The Lantern Festival or the Spring Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolarChinese calendar. Usually falling in February or early March on the Gregorian calendar, it marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Year celebrations. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE-CE 25), it had become a festival with great significance.  China loves their Chinese festivals, such as Chinese New Year and Tomb Sweeping Festival,  and it doesn’t skimp out when it comes to Chinese Valentine’s Day either.
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During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns (simplified Chinese: 猜灯谜; traditional Chinese: 猜燈謎; pinyin: cāidēngmí; Jyutping: caai1 dang1 mai4).

Lantern Festival (元宵節)
Official name	yuánxiāo jié (元宵節 / 上元節)
Observed by	Chinese, Taiwanese
Type	Cultural
Significance	Marks the end of theLunar New Year
Observances	Flying of paper lanterns; Consumption oftangyuan
Date	15th day of the 1st month (lunisolar year)
2019 date	February 19
2020 date	February 8
2021 date	February 26
Related to	Chotrul Duchen (in Tibet) Daeboreum (in Korea) Koshōgatsu (in Japan) Magha Puja (in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos) Tết Nguyên Tiêu (in Vietnam)

Lantern Festival Why is it called the Chinese Lantern Festival? This Chinese festival is known in English as the Lantern Festival because watching lanterns 灯笼 (dēnglóng) in different shapes and sizes is one of the main attractions of this special day. What is the origin of the Chinese Lantern Festival? There are different versions of the legend behind it, but this is one of the most popular ones: In ancient times a holy crane flew from heaven to Earth, but when it landed the holy creature got lost and killed by some villagers that thought it was a fierce beast. The Jade Emperor was extremely angry and upset when he heard that his favourite crane was killed by a human. He ordered his troops to go into the human world to destroy the whole village by fire on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. However, when the Jade Emperor’s daughter, a kind and graceful goddess, warned the villagers about the bad news, all of them fell into despair. An old and wise man was the only exception. He instructed the villagers to hang red lanterns around their houses and to set off fireworks and firecrackers to simulate a vast fire. When the army of the Jade Emperor came to destroy the village, they saw the lights, the smog and heard the noise of the explosions. They thought that the village was already set on fire and so they left.  Therefore, to celebrate how they survived from this crisis, people light lanterns 灯笼 (dēnglóng) and set off fireworks 鞭炮 ( biānpào ) on that day every year.