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Chinese Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little First Moon, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals have also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walking, dry boat rowing, Yangko twisting, and Taiping drums.
19-02-2022