Lantern Festival

2022 - 2 - 15

Watch Now: Lantern festival lights up the night sky in New Taipei ... (Crossroads Today)

The Lantern Festival ends the 15-day celebration of Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, and is celebrated on the night of the first full ...

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Lantern Festival 2022: Chinese celebration explained, traditional ... (NationalWorld)

The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first Chinese lunar month.

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What is the Lantern Festival and where is it celebrated? (Birmingham Live)

To celebrate, people light lanterns which are left to float up into the sky.

The lantern shines a light onto the new year. Plenty of food is on offer on the day including cultural food with the likes of yuanxiao or tangyuan, which are small rice balls filled with a mix of fruits and nuts. The festival acts as an Uposatha day on the Chinese lunisolar calendar.

What is the Lantern Festival? Meaning behind the Chinese New ... (iNews)

The Lantern Festival is one of the most visually exciting holidays of the entire Chinese New year period.

Google says: “Today’s Doodle celebrates the Lantern Festival on the first full moon of the Lunar calendar. “Modern-day celebrations of the Lantern Festival have ancient roots. People write messages of hope for the new year on their lanterns, or paint pictures of animals like pandas and cats. The round shape of the balls symbolises wholeness and unity within the family.” Encyclopaedia Brittanica says: “The Lantern Festival aims to promote reconciliation, peace, and forgiveness. “The emperor, fooled by all the light, assumed the town was already engulfed in flames.

Staffers inside Olympic bubble find new ways to celebrate Lantern ... (WJMN - UPMatters.com)

It's a sacred celebration Chinese citizens within the closed loop can't celebrate like they normally would with their family because of COVID-19 protocols ...

Astronaut Wang Yaping Plays Guzheng in Space to Celebrate ... (Pandaily)

This is the first time that Chinese astronauts have performed large musical instruments in space. In the interview before her mission, Wang revealed that she ...

In the whole year, the manned spaceflight project will carry out six launch missions, with the Tianhe core module serving as the control center and the Wentian and Mengtian laboratory modules as the main experimental platforms. According to the China Manned Space Agency, on the evening of November 7, 2021, Beijing time, Shenzhou-13 astronauts made their first extravehicular activity. This is the first time that Chinese astronauts have performed large musical instruments in space.