The Lantern Festival or the Spring Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar.
It marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Year celebrations, and usually falls on some day in February or March in the Gregorian calendar ,During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns ..
In ancient times, the lanterns were fairly simple, and only the emperor and noblemen had large ornate ones..
In modern times, lanterns have been embellished with many complex designs, lanterns are now often made in the shape of animals..
In Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is commercialized as the Chinese equivalent of Valentine’s Day.
Now the Chinese Lantern Festival is becoming popular in Western countries. In London, the United Kingdom has the Magical Lantern Festival..
