Lantern Festival facts

home title Posted by Risa Harada on Feb 15th, 2010 | 6 comments home title

My English is not very good that it seems to me that the Lantern Festival facts means some interesting and useful information about the Lantern Festival, if it’s correct, please ready this post. If I make a mistake about this words please tell me the really means, I’ll fix it soon.

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dragon boat lantern

  • The Lantern Festival began in Han dynasty(A.D. 25 -  A.D.220 )
  • The Lantern Fstival was hold every 15th day of the 1st lunar month.
  • The four important festivals in China are the Spring Festival,  the Lantern Festival, the Drgon-boat Festival and the Mid-autumn Festival.
  • Chinese Lantern Festival and the Tanabata Festival is the Ancient Chinese Valentine’s Day.
  • In the morning of Japanese Lantern Festival, there is a habit of eating small beans congee, Japanese believed that beans can avoid evil things.
  • China is known for silk in ancient time, rats often eaten silkworms that time, so that people cook a pot of gruel for the rats specifically in the Lantern Festival to avoid their silkworms being eaten.
  • Taiwan, South Korea, China, Japan, Singapore is the areas that most frequent celebrated the Lantern Festival

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  1. leanne says:
    February 23, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    thankyou it help with my project for school

  2. Sally says:
    March 20, 2010 at 9:14 pm

    Thank-you very much. It helped alot with a project for school. I will tell all the others at my school so they may use this information too!

  3. Ashley says:
    April 15, 2010 at 9:24 pm

    Fantastic, thanks for posting!

  4. emily says:
    May 6, 2010 at 7:37 am

    i suppose it does have a bit of info. it has help alot for my school project. THANKS HEAPS!!XX

  5. Kim says:
    October 28, 2010 at 12:56 am

    Thanks for helping me for my project for lantern festival.=)

  6. Zelda says:
    February 21, 2011 at 8:44 am

    I Suppose this helps alot of school projects. Add me 2 that list. 谢谢

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