Lantern Festival - Pano(xin zheng)

Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival-Pano

The Lantern Festival The Lantern Festival

As early as the qin dynasty had more than 2000 years ago. According to the data and folk legend, the fifteenth day of the already taken seriously in the western han dynasty, emperor sheen on the first night in oasis temple sacrifices "is a" activities, (too a: master of all the gods of the universe), be remembered as the fifteenth day of the sacrifice to the gods. 

Yuanxiao, meaning "the Lantern Festival evening", because of the fifteenth day of the first "the Lantern Festival" main activity is in the evening to eat dumplings and enjoy the festival name later evolved into "Lantern Festival". Yuanxiao nights, streets decorated, people watching lanterns, guess riddles, eating lantern, will continue starting the New Year's eve celebrations to another climax, become a custom of generation down. Yuanxiao festival at an early age forming process, the fifteenth day, only in the first month and a half or full moon, sui said yuan after evening or Lantern Festival. Early stage has been influenced by Taoism, also called has, tang was accidentally called yuanxiao. But since the song dynasty is also called light evening. In the qing dynasty, is called the Lantern Festival. Abroad, yuanxiao also with The The Lantern Festival and The unknown.