The Chinese Lantern Festival is Saturday, February 8, 2020
By Master Allen Tsai Sunday, May 5, 2019The Chinese Lantern Festival Day
The Lantern Festival is called Yuan-Xiao
Festival in
China. This is because Chinese eat Yuan-Xiao on this day. Yuan-Xiao
looks and tastes like Tang-Yuan
(See
Winter Solstice - Tang-Yuan Day).
The difference is the way they made.
The Lantern Festival is also called San-Yuan
(upper period of the year) Festival in Taoism. This day is the birthday of
the Heaven Officer who blesses human luck. So many people have a worship
ceremony at home and some go to Taoism temple pray
for luck.
Yuan-Xiao Festival is a traditional Chinese festival going back to the Han Dynasty of over 2000 years ago. There is a story about the Lantern Festival. A beautiful heavenly bird flew down a village and was killed. The God of Heaven was very anger and wanted to burn down the entire village on the 15th lunar day. One wise guy advised every family hang candle lanterns around the house, carried lantern on the street, burn fire outside to explode the firecracker at the 15th lunar night. The soldiers of the God of Heaven saw the village was on fire from the heaven, and returned back to the heaven. The village survived and people keep the lantern activity on this day every year.
Besides the lantern display, a traditional riddle games will be held in the temple. The questions are related with to the lantern displays, news or popular persons in town. When the game begins, the person who figures out the answers first, can win a price.
Lantern laser show, flying sky lantern, mass firecrackers, fireworks and music concerts are essential activities. The events continue all night long. After Lantern Festival night, people need to back to the normal life. Students will end of the winter vacation around this day.
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