Lantern Festival | What is the Lantern Festival in China & How to Celebrate it? (2024)

The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month, marking the end of the Chinese New Year celebration. In Chinese, it is 元宵节 (yuán xiāo jié) or 上元节 (shàng yuán jié). In 2024, it falls on Feb. 24.
In this video, let’s dig deep into the history and origin of the Lantern Festival, activities, traditions, food, greetings, and all other parts of this traditional festival you need to know.
00:00 ​ - Introduction: What is the Lantern Festival?
00:24​ - What is the History & Story of the Lantern Festival?
02:03 - How to Celebrate it?
Lighting and Watching Lanterns
Guessing Lantern Riddles
Eating Tang Yuan (Tang Yuan VS Yuan Xiao)
Watching Dragon and Lion Dances (Folk Shows)
Greetings (How to Say Happy Lantern Festival in Chinese? )
03:26 - Is the Lantern Festival the real Chinese Valentine's Day？
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[@shupinglee88]

謝謝 ,很棒的解說,我的美國小孩也學到了.

[@ChinaTravel1998]

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[@12012channel]

Happy Lunar New Year 2022! 🐅❤️💰🏮🧨🧧🥟🥮🍊🐅 心想事成

[@r80670]

Thank you this helps so much. I was able to pause video at places and add more descriptions and stories to help my kids understand then get back on track with video ❤

[@wangqi1387]

Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) is a traditional Chinese festival. These festivals are all based on the Chinese agricultural calendar. The Chinese lunar calendar is a combination of the solar calendar and the lunar calendar (lunar calendar). It is also incorrect to call the Chinese New Year the Lunar New Year due to political correctness. The Chinese New Year is not a lunar new year, but an agricultural calendar new year. Due to confusion in translation during East West exchanges, the Chinese agricultural calendar does not have a proper term. Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival), also called Shangyuan Festival, is on January 15 of the lunar calendar; In addition, there is Zhongyuan Festival, July 15 of the lunar calendar; Xia Yuan Festival falls on October 15th in the lunar calendar. This is the Three Yuan Festival, which originates from the worship of three temples in Chinese Taoism. On the Shangyuan Festival, we worship the Temple of the Heavenly Gods, set off sky lanterns, and pray for blessings to the heavens; Sacrifice to the Difu Temple on Zhongyuan Festival (the ancestors' souls enter the earth and are under the control of the earth gods, who will reincarnate or be enslaved to atone for sins according to the merits or sins of their deeds), burn a lot of ancestral money, and hope that the ancestors can live a comfortable life in the underground world; The Xiayuan Festival worships the Water God Temple, lights up water lamps, and prays for the Water God who governs/overcomes the great flood. Furthermore, regarding South Korea's application for and approval of Chinese festivals as World Heritage sites, it is actually exploiting loopholes for theft. South Korea is applying for a Chinese festival with Korean characteristics. But ignorant and self deceiving Koreans believe that those festivals are all or even unique to Korea. For example, the Dragon Boat Festival in China, where South Korea applied for World Heritage, has a cultural feature of worshipping rivers. But sacrificing to the rivers is just one cultural characteristic of the Dragon Boat Festival. Chinese historical celebrity Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die for his country on that day. People were worried that fish and shrimp ate his body, so they made Zongzi and threw other food into the river to feed fish. Before Qu Yuan, there was the Dragon Boat Festival, which was a day when people prayed for blessings and disaster relief like the Water God (Loong), so there were dragon boat races. Fortunately, Qu Yuan later chose to throw himself into the river on this day. When the Shangyuan Festival (Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival) was introduced to South Korea, it only intercepted the colorful lights of lively praying, and forgot or ignored the original intention of Shangyuan Festival to pray for the Chinese Taoist Temple. Later, Buddhism was introduced to China, forming Mahayana Buddhism. On Buddha's birthday, people also lit lanterns to celebrate. Mahayana Buddhism has spread to the Korean Peninsula, and the same believers also celebrate Buddha's birthday. In modern times, in order to create the image of a cultural power, Buddha's birthday was designated as the Lantern Festival,

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HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR 5 FEB 2023🎇🎆🎉🎊 HOPE THIS YEAR U GET A GOOD FORTUNE🎉😊

[@tanvi1121]

Is it also related to lovers festival Is there any festival in china for lovers

[@ChinaTravel1998]

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In ancient China, it is also a traditional dating festival for youngers, full of romance. When the moon climbs up to the willows, the lovers have trysts after the dusk. 月上柳梢头，人约黄昏后。

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Sorry I can't really understand this English😅

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