Chinese New Year Lanterns
On special occasions such as the mid autumn festival you can see a unique type of floating lantern being released into the night skies over china.
Chinese new year lanterns. On the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar the chinese celebrate with the lantern festival. As early as the western han dynasty 206 bce ce 25 it had become a festival with great. These airborne lanterns are propelled by rising hot air generated by the flame within.
2 piece red chinese lanterns decorations for chinese new year chinese spring festival wedding lantern festival celebration décor 12 30cm golden fu 4 1 out of 5 stars 41 10 99 10. And celebrations with family. Traditionally chinese people hang lanterns and other decorations a few weeks before the first day of the chinese new year spring festival.
It is commemorated on the 15th day of the chinese calendar s first lunar month. Lantern festival yuan xiao jie of china falls on february 8 2020. Chinese new year 2020 falls on saturday 25th january 2020.
New designs have just arrived ready for festival season. Lanterns hung at chinese new year are thought to scare aware the nian monster and bring good luck. Chinese lanterns come in all sorts of shapes sizes and colors although for chinese new year the traditional red and gold balloon lantern is one of the most popular ones.
Hanging up lanterns is a common decoration you will find during the chinese new year. Popular decorations for chinese new year mid autumn moon festival and special events. The lantern festival or the spring lantern festival is a chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar chinese calendar usually falling in february or early march on the gregorian calendar it marks the final day of the traditional chinese new year celebrations.
Chinese new year lanterns make great decorations and this time of the year you see them popping up everywhere around town the temples the stores homes parks. It is a festive day and the end of the chinese new year the spring festival. And it is the year of the rat.