The Lantern Festival is on the 15th day of the first lunar month. It has a Chinese name: Yuanxiao Festival. Yuanxiao comes from the f that people call the first lunar month the Yuan Month and night Xiao. The night of the th day of the first lunar month m the beginning of the first full moon. On the Lantern Festival, the Chinese people have the custom（习俗）of e lanterns and eating glutinous（黏的）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 2,000 years. As night f, people go in crowds to the sea of lanterns: palace lanterns, figure lanterns, flower lanterns, and animal lanterns, of all types and c. Some lanterns have riddles on them, which encourage people to try to be the f to find the answer.
It is also a t 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. Since it is eaten on the Lantern Festival, people call it yuanxiao. The Chinese people hope that e is satisfactory, and to eat glutinous rice dumplings on the first night with a full moon in a year is to wish that family members will keep united and happy.
