What is a Lantern Festival

What is a Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival or the Spring Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, it had become a festival with great significance.During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns

Right now, one of the China’s largest and most influential folk activities, also called “ Deng Hui”, with many different groups of lanterns put together in one place to form a huge show. Like Zigong Dinosaur International Lantern Dubai Garden Glow, Shanghai Yu Garen Lantern, Houston Lights Over America Skay Lantern Festival , Nice Lantern Festival and etc.  Recent years, the“Lantern festival” has become an important activities as government authority and corporations turn to more creative activities to communicate with the public or potential visitors.