Lantern Festival

Lantern festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals. Eating Tangyuan is an important tradition for the Lantern Festival. Tangyuan, also known as Yuanxiao, which is Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour mixed with the small amount of water to form balls and is then cooked and served in boiling water.
Decorating and hanging lanterns is the main tradition of the festival, with lanterns big and small hung around households, parks, streets and public places. Red lanterns of various shapes and types will attract countless visitors to watch. Solving riddles on lanterns has been a popular tradition since the be Song Dynasty. People write riddles on paper and stick them to the lanterns and if someone guesses correctly, they can pull the riddle off. The notes often contain messages of good fortune and wishes.
The lion dance is one of the oldest traditions to celebrate the Chinese New Year. In ancient times, people regarded the lion as a symbol of bravery and strength and believed the dance could drive away bad fortune to protect people and their livestock. The custom has continued to the modern day and lion dances are performed at important events on the Chinese calendar, such as the Lantern Festival, to bring good luck. Dragon dance is a form of traditional dance and performance in Chinese culture. Like the lion dance, it is most often seen in festival celebration. The dance is performed by a team of dancers who manipulate a long flexible figure of a dragon using poles positioned at regular intervals along the length of the dragon.