Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles and setting off fireworks. In addition, many places have added the Lantern Festival dragon lantern, lion dance, stilt walking, land boat rowing, Yangko dance, playing Taiping drum and other traditional folk performances. In June 2008, Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.



