chinese new year lantern festival
chinese new year lantern festival is the Fifteenth day of
chinese new year.The fifteenth day of the new year is celebrated as
Yuan Xiao Festival/Yuánxiāojié (元宵节) or
Shang Yuan Festival/Shàngyuánjié (上元节) or
Lantern Festival, otherwise known as
Chap Goh Mei (Chinese: 十五暝; pinyin: shí wǔ míng; literally "the fifteen night") in Fujian dialect. Rice dumplings
tangyuan (simplified Chinese: 汤圆; traditional Chinese: 湯圓; pinyin
tāngyuán), a sweet glutinous rice ball brewed in a soup, is eaten this day. Candles are lit outside houses as a way to guide wayward spirits home. This day is celebrated as the Lantern Festival, and families walk the street carrying lighted lanterns.
In Malaysia and Singapore, this day is celebrated by individuals seeking for a love partner, a different version of Valentine's Day.Normally, single women would write their contact number on mandarin oranges and throw it in a river or a lake while single men would collect them and eat the oranges. The taste is an indication of their possible love: sweet represents a good fate while sour represents a bad fate.
This day often marks the end of the Chinese New Year festivities.
Lunar New Year Lantern Festival, also known as the "Lantern Festival" (the Lantern Festival), is a Chinese folk traditions. In January the first month is the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night", and the 15th is the first year of full moon, so called for the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival. Also known as a small first month, the Lantern Festival, or Festival of Lights, the first after the Spring Festival, a major holiday. China is a vast, long history, so on the custom of the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, which eat the Lantern Festival, Flower lamp, dragon, lion dance and other folk customs are several important Lantern Festival.
