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Besides the Lantern Festival, what festival is the fifteenth day of the first month? What are the customs?

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.

In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

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The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. The annual Lantern Festival, dragon and lion dances, hawking in old Beijing and other traditional Lantern Festival programs are one of the main reasons why old Beijing residents look forward to this festival. The traditional Lantern Festival activities in old Beijing are mainly composed of three parts: flower party, lantern festival and eating Lantern Festival.

The unique custom of Yuanxiao in Hebei is the flower pulling in Jingxing, which is an ancient artistic wonder. The Lantern Festival custom in Zanhuang County-"Laluchen" is a dance that shows the working life, with the Lantern Festival as the main part and percussion music.

There are drums, gongs, cymbals and water cymbals. Yongping House Lantern Festival, where sick women gather under the kiln, is called "pottery moxibustion". Children crossing the bridge are called "Du Bai Goose". Some people cut the paper into nine paper ropes and tied them with their hands to make up for their mistakes. This is called "knotting sheep intestines".

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Lantern Festival