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The Lantern Festival (traditional Chinese: 元宵節; simplified Chinese: 元宵节; pinyin: Yuánxiāo jié), also called Shangyuan Festival (traditional Chinese: 上元節; simplified Chinese: 上元节; pinyin: Shàngyuán jié) and Cap Go Meh (Chinese: 十五暝; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Cha̍p-gō͘-mê), is a Chinese traditional festival celebrated ...
How China is celebrating the Lantern Festival . Throngs welcomed the Lantern Festival in cities across the world’s second most populous country with 1.4 billion people. Beijing hosted a slew of ...
Lotus flower lantern workshops are common sights across the communities that celebrate the festival not only in South Korea, but around the world. Custom designed lanterns made for Yeondeunghoe have an underlying frame covered with a paper sheathing and internal lights. A lantern frame is made of split bamboo or aluminum armature wire.
Tangyuan is traditionally eaten during the Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first month of a lunar new year, which is the first full moon. The festival falls each year on a day in February in the Gregorian calendar. [1] People eat tangyuan for good luck and hopes of filling their lives with fortune and joy. [1]
The lights will commonly be of the same type, so making a candlelight procession, lantern parade or torchlight march. [ 1 ] Examples include the Christmas festival of Ndocciata in Italy; the Chinese Lantern Festival to celebrate the first full moon; and the daily procession of pilgrims to the grotto of Lourdes .
Unlike the Jan. 1 celebration most of us are used to, the date of the Lunar New Year changes every year. Americans and many other cultures around the world use the Gregorian calendar to keep track ...
The Mid-Autumn Festival (for other names, see § Etymology) is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture.It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. [1]
In Japan, the dragon dance (龍踊, Ja Odori or "Snake Dance" 蛇踊) [35] is one of the main attractions in the Nagasaki Kunchi festival. The dance was originally performed by Chinese residents who settled in Nagasaki , the only port said to be open for foreign trade in Japan during the Edo period .