The ceremony lasts thoughout th evening with hundreds of lanterns up in the sky. Other visitors from all over the world come to witness the magic. With these traditions and activities, we can have an exciting celebration of the Lantern Festival. With lantern riddles, lantern displays of colorful lanterns by the Chinese people, Lantern Festival is one of the most significant and a major event in Chinese cultures. This festival promotes peace, forgiveness, and aims to restore the friendly relation. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month of the year. This festival is celebrated to honor the deceased ancestors. The Lantern Festival is known as Yuan Xiao Festival. What does the Chinese Lantern Festival symbolize? Today, it is still celebrated in some regions of Southwest China. Entire communities would dance in the fields from dusk until dawn while holding these torches. The children would gather firewood and tree branches for the adults to light. Children and adults alike would participate in the festivity. The purpose of celebrating the Torch Festival is to express wishes of a good harvest to scare away insects and pests. However, there are holidays today that coincides with the celebration so they are often celebrated together. Currently, the event is not technically considered a national holiday so there are no days off. During the Ming Dynasty, the celebration lasted around a month. The duration of the celebrations varied throughout history. Both these junctures in history shaped the Lantern Festival we know today. Being a devout Buddhist himself, he ordered the palace and temples to be lit with candles and for his constituency to hang lanterns on the 15th. Later in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming discovered that Buddhist monks would light candles on the 15th for Buddha.
“Nào” can be interpreted as having a good time. Every household would light lanterns and the occasion became known as 闹元宵 (nào yuán xiāo). To commemorate the return of peace, the new emperor designated the 15th as a national holiday. There was an intense struggle for power and unrest after his reign ended until Emperor Wen (汉文帝) took over. Emperor Wu (汉武帝) dedicated this day for people to perform worship rituals for Taiyi (太一神), one of the rulers of the universe. Many Chinese scholars agree that the celebration started out over 2000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty.
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