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The Lantern Festival, also known as the Little New Year, Lantern Festival is the first important festival after the Spring Festival.
China has a vast territory and a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are different across the country. Among them, eating Lantern Festival dumplings, admiring lanterns, dragon dances, lion dances, etc. are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

Dragon lantern dance is one of the important folk customs of the Lantern Festival. The earliest dragon dance recorded in writing was Zhang Heng’s “Xijing Fu” in the Han Dynasty. The author gave a vivid description of the dragon dance in the narration of “Hundred Plays”. According to the “Book of Sui”, the “Yellow Dragon Change” during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, which was similar to the dragon dance performance in the Hundred Plays, was also very exciting, and the dragon dance was popular in many places in China. The Chinese nation worships dragons and regards dragons as a symbol of auspiciousness.
Hanging lanterns: Legend has it that this custom originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and became popular during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, the lantern festival lasted for three days, from the 14th to the 16th of the first lunar month. In the Song Dynasty, it was changed to five days, and in the Ming Dynasty it was ten days. In the Qing Dynasty, lanterns were hung in the palace starting from the New Year’s Eve.

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