The Chinese life is colorful with many interesting folk ways. The Lantern Festival is on the 15th day of the first lunar month, it has a Chinese name Yuanxiao Festival. Yuanxiao comes from the fthat people call the first lunar month the Yuan Month and night Xiao. The night of the 15th day of the first lunar month m the beginning of the first full moon. On the Lantern Festival, the Chinese people have the custom of e lanterns and eating glutinous rice dumplings. There is a common saying that "Playing on the Lantern Festival."
The custom started during the Han Dynasty, and has a h of more than 2000 years. On that night, every place is decorated with lanterns and streamers(饰带) and there is a bustling atmosphere. As night f, people go in crowds to the sea of colorful lanterns: palace lanterns, wall lamps, figure lanterns, flower lanterns, revolving horse lanterns, animal lanterns, and toy lanterns, of all types and c. Some lanterns have riddles(谜语) on them, which encourage people to try to be the f to find the answer.
It is a a traditional custom to eat glutinous rice dumplings at this time. As early as the Song Dynasty, there was such a kind of food, a round ball m of glutinous rice flour with a filling of sugar and kernels(果仁). Since it is eaten on the Lantern Festival, people call it yuanxiao. The Chinese people hope that e is satisfactory (yuanman in Chinese), and to eat glutinous rice dumplings on the first night with a full moon in a year is to wish that family members will remain united, harmonious, happy and satisfied.
