Every year on January 15th of the lunar calendar is the Chinese attaches great importance to the traditional festival, the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is also called the Lantern Festival, the spring Lantern Festival, is a lot of family the reunion of the festival. The fifteenth day the full moon is the first month of the year, and the tradition of eating yuanxiao, the celebration and reunion of two word firmly together. The Lantern Festival is the first important after the Spring Festival holiday, whether the south north more attention for this holiday, a lot of activities to celebrate this festival. You must be very curious about the history and custom of the Lantern Festival, eat small charged China now tell you what is the Lantern Festival, what are the customs.

　　About the Lantern Festival origin is varied, there are three widely circulated.

　　The Lantern Festival comes a legend

　　Night when the festival is a Chinese emperor in honor of "ping lu". Legend hanshu a series after the death of hanshu afraid of to slip, plotting insurgency, clan wang capsule combined with founding veteran bo zhou suppressed "chaos" of lu. Special riot, the minister the second son of liu liu, said the Chinese emperor. Wen emperor was deeply millennium hard-won, kept calm "chaos of the lv" the fifteenth day of the first, as the day which was attended with the people, every family decorated in the capital, to celebrate. From then on, the fifteenth day of the first became a folk festivals celebrate - ring "yuanxiao".

　　The Lantern Festival origin legend ii

　　The Lantern Festival is also called the Lantern Festival, is celebrated the first full moon of the year. According to Taoism "three yuan", the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival, July 15 for the hungry ghost festival, on October 15th is RMB under section. Head up, middle and down three yuan heaven, earth, three officers, respectively cheongwan joy, so the Lantern Festival to eep. Yuanxiao randeng custom of setting off fireworks is from the claim.