Chinese New Year Lantern Festival

The festivities for the chinese new year are concluded by celebrating the lantern festival on the 15th day.

Chinese new year lantern festival. It s saturday february 8 in 2020. It s on the 15th day of the first lunar month in the chinese lunar calendar. Its essence is the celebration of family reunion and society and it features ancient spiritual traditions.

It is the first night to see the full moon. The chinese new year holiday comes to its climax with the yuan xiao 元宵节 yuán xiāo jié or lantern festival. With its origin dating back to over 2000 years chinese culture has developed numerous meanings for the festival.

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 usually falling in february or early march on the gregorian calendar it marks the final day of the traditional chinese new year celebrations. Began over 2000 years ago the festival has developed many meanings. As early as the western han dynasty 206 bce ce 25 it had become a festival with great.

People will go out to look at the moon send up flying lanterns fly bright drones have a meal and enjoy time together with family and friends in parks and natural areas. It celebrates family reunions and society. It features ancient spiritual traditions.

This year s new fleet of light sculptures includes 12 famous cat and dog influencers reimagined as the zodiac constellations and a 10 foot tall christmas tree all composed of handmade lanterns. So the festival is also called yuan xiao festival. It falls on the first chinese lunar month which is called yuan month in old times.

Celebrate chinese new year and the year of the ox at the 2021 auckland lantern festival from thursday 25 sunday 28 february on captain cook and marsden wharves. Chinese lantern festival 2020 is on february 8 2020 saturday. Celebrated on the 15th day of the first chinese lunar month the lantern festival traditionally marks the end of the chinese new year spring festival period.