Happy Lantern Festival!
Feb. 19, 2019
Lantern Festival is dated on the 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozheng Yue, Yuan Xi or Lantern Festival, and Lantern Festival is the last important festival in the Chinese New Year. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals of Chinese and Chinese cultural circles and overseas Chinese. The first month is the “Yuan” month of the lunar calendar,ancients called "night" as "Xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called “Yuan Xiao” Festival in Chinese, and Lantern Festival in English.
China has a vast territory and a long history. Therefore, the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country. Among them, eating “tangyuan”, also called “rice glue ball”, watching lanterns, dancing dragons, and dancing lions are important folk customs of the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, so most of Chinese will celebrate the festival. The customs in most areas are similar, but the localities still have their own characteristics.
Chinese traditional festival customs have adapted to the comprehensive needs of the most Chinese in the material, spiritual, ethical and aesthetic. For the material life, traditional Chinese festivals have many unique foods for different festivals. During the Lantern Festival, the whole family eats “Tangyuan” together. In Chinese, the words "Tangyuan" and “reunion" are similar, symbolizing the reunion and harmony.
After the Lantern Festival, it also begins for the new year. Here, Tianjin Xinyue Group wishes everyone good luck with your work throughout the new year, everything is going well, and profits pouring in from all sides!
Happy Lantern Festival!
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Written by Jasmine