The Lantern Festival is also called "Shangyuan Festival"

Commonly known as "Lantern Festival"

Time is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year

It is the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year

Since ancient times, there has been the custom of lighting and watching lanterns

People put on lights, watch lanterns, enjoy lanterns, guess lanterns, and guess riddles

Commonly known as "Noo Lanterns"

The lively, jubilant, peaceful and festive atmosphere

Expressing people's wishes to welcome good fortune and wish for a good harvest

In the Lantern Festival in 1979, people watched various lanterns in Quanzhou, Fujian. Xinhua News Agency (photo taken by Huang Bixian)

In 1981, Shanghai held a one-month Lantern Festival "Lantern Flower Exhibition", where people enjoy various lanterns. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yigen

Before the Lantern Festival in 1998, citizens bought lanterns on Nanhou Street, Fuzhou City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Kaiyuan Li

Before the Lantern Festival in 2000, people bought lanterns in Confucius Temple Square in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Peng

On February 1, 2004, the red lanterns hidden under the snow in the Huang Temple in Lanzhou City showed even more joy. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Han Chuanhao

On February 20, 2008, two children were playing in the lantern corridor of Wuta Temple in Hohhot. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ren Junchuan

On February 16, 2011, tourists enjoyed the lanterns in front of a group of colorful lanterns. On the eve of the Lantern Festival, a large spring lantern festival in the People's Park of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province attracted many citizens to visit. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhu Xiang

On February 22, 2016, tourists watched the colorful lanterns at the Wuhan Garden Expo Park. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cheng Min

On February 26, 2021, tourists and villagers played with fish lanterns and made a Lantern Festival in Wangmantian Village, Xitou Town, She County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Han Xu

On February 5, 2023, citizens watched the colorful lanterns at the "Zhongming Chutian Lantern Festival" Lantern Festival Garden Event in Hubei Provincial Museum. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiao Yijiu

In addition to watching the lanterns

The Lantern Festival in the north and the Tangyuan in the south are also the "standard" of the Lantern Festival

Whether it is the Lantern Festival that is "rolled" or the Tangyuan that is "packed" is round in shape

The symbolizes reunion and fullness

They express people's good wishes

On February 23, 1986, Beijing citizens bought Lantern Festival on the streets. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xue Tiejun

On February 11, 2011, staff from a large supermarket in Yinchuan, Ningxia were placing Lantern Festival. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Peng Zhaozhi

On March 1, 2018, citizens lined up outside a shop on Huimin Street, Xi'an to buy Lantern Festival. Photo by Zhang Bowen by Xinhua News Agency

On February 19, 2019, citizens and tourists tasted the Lantern Festival in the Great Bazaar Pedestrian Street of Urumqi, Xinjiang. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Faye Wong

On February 24, 2013, several foreign tourists tasted dumplings on Yangshuo West Street, Guilin, Guangxi. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Bo'an

On February 24, 2021, children made dumplings in Shanwan Garden Community, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Meng Delong)

The Spring Festival

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month ends on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month

After the Lantern Festival

People will wake up from the "year dot"

Work and study must also get on track

Celebrating the New Year every year

Calling the Lantern Festival every year

On the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year

Let us "make a fuss" to the fullest

Inject more vitality, hope and vitality into the new year

On February 11, 2025, Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province held a folk customs performance on the Lantern Festival. This is a parade of the exhibition team on the road. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ji Chunpeng

Production: Hao Jianwei