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The Lantern Festival
A song is like the sea in spring, and the lights of thousands of homes are like the year
The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the New Year and the first festival after the Spring Festival. This night is a reunion moment when the lights are dimmed and the family meets, thousands of flowers and lanterns shine, and the layers of brilliance reflect the festival. People eat tangyuan on this night, enjoy the flower lanterns, guess the riddles, and have endless fun.
A bowl of rice balls, a reunion in the world
Tangyuan symbolizes reunion and beauty, and eating Tangyuan on the Lantern Festival means that a family will be happy and reunited in the new year, which is a good wish of people. After the tangyuan is boiled, it is beautiful, reminiscent of a bright moon hanging in the clouds. The bright moon in the sky, the tangyuan in the bowl, and the reunion of every household symbolize the auspicious reunion. Therefore, eating Lantern or Tangyuan during the Lantern Festival expresses the beauty of people's love for family reunion.
Thousands of flower lanterns, pray for good
The strings are boiling over this night, and the flower lanterns are going round for ten miles. Before the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets are full of lanterns. At the end of the streets and alleys, there are flowers everywhere, the lights are swaying, there are palace lights, animal head lamps, marquee lights, flower lights, bird lights, etc., together to paint a romantic night, many love stories also happen on this night, so the Lantern Festival is also known as the "Valentine's Day" of Chinese.
"Mountains and rivers are exotic, the wind and moon are the same day", may the mountains and rivers be reunited without harm, and the little stones are happy lanterns!
Learn in stone
Raw as oil
Will be in the heart
Text: Yuan Yulin
Editor: Zhou Zikang