catalogue Origin Legend Convention Food Chinese valentine's day The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lanter n Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-mo nth and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China. According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung o ut for people to appreciate. At this time, people will try to s olve the puzzles on the lanterns and eat yuanxiao (glutino us rice ball) and get all their families united in the joyful at mosphere. Origin 1. On the origin of the Lantern Festival, there are three claims 1.Lantern Festival has been valued in the W e-stern Han Dynasty However, the Lantern Festival is truly a folk festival, after the Han. origin 2. 3. 2. Lantern Festival ori -ginated in the Torch F-estival 3. Lantern Festival ori -ginated in Taoist pra c-tices Enlightening th e "Three said LOGO legend When Emperor Wen of Han to commemor ate the "Ping Lu," desi gned Dong fangshuo and Y u-an xiao Yuan shikai and xua nxiao convention guess the riddle lion dance play the dragon lantern a land boat dance convention stilt walk This day's important activity is watching lanterns. Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting co untless visitors. Children will hold self-ma de or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited. " Watching lanterns Guessing lantern riddles Guessing lantern riddles"is an essential part of the Festival. Lantern owners write riddleson a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can p ull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift. The activity emerged during people's enjoyment of lanterns in the Song Dynasty ( ). As riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular among all soc ial strata. In the daytime of the F estival, performances su ch as a dragon lantern d ance, a lion dance, a lan d boat dance, a yangge dance, walking on stilts a nd beating drums while d ancing will be staged. On the night, except for magnificent l anterns, fireworks form a beautiful scen e. Most families spare some fireworks f rom the Spring Festival and let them off in the Lantern Festival. Some local gov ernments will even organize a fireworks party. On the night when the first full m oon enters the New Year, people beco me really intoxicated by the imposing fir eworks and bright moon in the sky. food Lantern Festival food, first called "floating Motoko" after "the Lantern", businessmen also euphemistically called "ingot" Yuan Xiao People will eat yuanxiao, or rice d umplings on this day, so it is also c alled the "Yuanxiao Festival."Yuanx iao also has another name, tangyua n. It is small dumpling balls made of glutinousrice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. Tangyuan can b e boiled, fried or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What's more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tua nyuan, meaning reunion. So peopl e eat them to denote union, harmon y and happiness for the family. Tang Yuan Chinese valentine's day traditional society does not allow young girls to go out freely, but they c an go ha-nd in hand out of play fes-tivals, the La ntern Festival Flower lig hts is just the chance of a friendship, unma rried men and women li ghts the way through the flowers to find objec ts for their own. So the Lant-ern Festival is typi cal of Chinese Valentine 's Day Hundreds and thousands of times, for her I sea rched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stoo d Guess