When is the Lantern Festival in 2018? This day is not a legal holiday.

When is the Lantern Festival in 2018? The Lantern Festival is the first traditional Chinese festival after the Spring Festival. Do you know the specific time of the Lantern Festival in 2018? Let’s take a look.

When is the Lantern Festival in 2018?

Specific time

The Lantern Festival in 2018 is on March 2, which is Friday, the 15th day of the first lunar month in the lunar calendar. The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month. The ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon night of the year is called the Lantern Festival.

Holiday Arrangements

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival with a long history in my country, but it is not a national statutory holiday, so there is no holiday arranged for the Lantern Festival. However, the Lantern Festival in 2018 is on March 2, Friday, so you can go back and have a bowl of glutinous rice balls, and then treat it as a two-day weekend off.

Traditional customs of the Lantern Festival

Lighting Lanterns

There is a custom of lighting lanterns on the Lantern Festival. The meaning of lighting lanterns varies in different regions. For example, in Taiwan, "lantern" and "ding" have similar pronunciations. Lighting lanterns on the Lantern Festival is generally used to pray for children, fame, and to avoid evil and keep safe.

Guess lantern riddles

"Guessing lantern riddles" is also called "playing lantern riddles". It is an activity added after the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles were first developed from riddles and originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is a literary game full of satire, admonition, humor and jokes.

Walking on stilts

It is a popular mass skill performance among the people. Stilt walking is a type of acrobatics in ancient China and appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in China is in the Liezi Shuo Fu chapter: "In Song there was a man named Lan Zi, who used his skills to compete with Song Yuan. Song Yuan summoned him and showed him his skills.

Eat glutinous rice balls

Eating glutinous rice balls (glutinous rice dumplings) on the Lantern Festival is a common custom across the country. Glutinous rice balls are also called "tangtuan", "yuanzi" or "tuanzi". Tangyuan sounds similar to the word "tuanyuan", which means reunion. It symbolizes the reunion of the whole family, harmony and happiness. It can also warm the spleen and stomach, regulate qi, and resist spring cold.