[HIGHLIGHTS] East-West Question丨Xiao Fang: "Thousands of flowers bloom on an east wind night", how do the Lantern Festival lights reflect the past and present?

Lantern Festival is a major folk festival in China and is an integral part of the Spring Festival. According to literature and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been taken seriously in the Western Han Dynasty.

The introduction of Buddhist culture during the Eastern Han Dynasty played an important role in promoting the Lantern Festival customs. The Lantern Festival has a high degree of similarity between the north and the south. Both people from both north and south of the Yangtze River are highly related to the festival.