The Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little First Moon, the New Year's Eve or the Lantern Festival, is the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. It is the last important festival in Chinese Spring Festival's Spring Festival customs.

Festival Summary

In ancient Chinese customs, the Shangyuan Festival (Tianguan Festival), the Zhongyuan Festival Festival (Diguan Festival, Yulan Bon Festival), and the Xiayuan Festival (Shuiguan Festival) are collectively called Sanyuan. According to general information and folk legends, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was already highly valued in the Western Han Dynasty.

The origin of the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) dates back to the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Emperor Wen of Han celebrated Zhou Bo's suppression of the rebellion of Zhulu on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. On this night, he would go out of the palace to play and have fun with the people.

Origin of the festival

The 15th day of the first lunar month is the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Lantern Festival and the Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival. The 15th day of the first lunar month is the night when the moon is full throughout the year, and it is also the night when the new year begins and spring returns to the earth. People celebrate this and it is also a continuation of celebrating the Chinese New Year.

Festivals and customs

The duration and customs of the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival extend and expand with the development of history. In terms of the duration of the festival, it was only one day in the Han Dynasty, three days in the Tang Dynasty, and five days in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the lanterns were lit from the eighth day of the lunar new year until the night of the seventeenth day of the first lunar month. It is the longest lantern festival in the Chinese calendar, coinciding with the Spring Festival. The daytime is bustling with activity, and the nighttime lanterns are spectacular.

Poems of Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival)

Leisure without seeing prosperity
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Shy to drive away the villagers and compete with Zigu
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Moonlight Lantern Mountain Full Emperor Capital
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Xiangche Baogai Pass Passage
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Watching lanterns and having fun
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Tang Li Shangyin
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元宵
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Ming Tangyin
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Bu Zhan Fangzun smiled
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How to spend this auspicious time
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Manjie Zhucuiyou Village Female
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Boiling Earth Shengge Competition, Society God
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Spring arrives in the human world, and people are like jade
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The lamp burns and the moon shines like silver
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Without a light or a moon, it's not entertaining
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A moon without lights is not considered spring
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