What's the name of Shangyuan Festival? When is the lunar calendar?

Shangyuan Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, Little First Month, Yuanxi 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.

The ancients called it "round", which means that the moon is round. There are three elements in a year-the 15th day of the first month is called Shangyuan, the 15th day of July is called Zhongyuan, and the 15th day of October is called Xia Yuan, so the Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival. As one of the important traditional festivals in China, the Lantern Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years. Different from other traditional festivals that emphasize "family reunion", the Lantern Festival emphasizes "universal celebration" and its excitement can be called the "carnival" of the Chinese nation.

According to the traditional folk custom in China, on the festival night of Spring Festival, the moon is high in the sky and there are tens of thousands of lanterns on the ground. People watch lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Yuanxiao. They have a happy family reunion.