The Lantern Festival

on marți, mai 24, 2011
This festival occurred on November 20th, 2010 just north of Chiang Mai, Thailand.


The Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao Festival is a festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year in the Chinese calendar, the last day of the lunisolar Chinese New Year celebration. It is not to be confused with the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is sometimes also known as the "Lantern Festival" in locations such as Singapore and Malaysia. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns (simplified Chinese: 猜灯谜; traditional Chinese: 猜燈謎; pinyin: cāidēngmí). It officially ends the Chinese New Year celebrations.
Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival 2010, Taipei County │ March 06, 2010
Sky Lantern Festival
Sky Lantern Festival

0 comments:

Trimiteți un comentariu