Myths and legends about the Lantern Festival

Legend has it that a girl named Zigu died of poverty on the fifteenth day of the first month. People sympathize with her and miss her, so on this night every year, straw and cloth heads are tied to the poverty of a real person and die as portraits of Zigu.

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Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the 15th day of the first lunar month and the last important festival of China Spring Festival. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year was called Lantern Festival.