Lantern Festival, China and Taiwan

Thousands in Taiwan and China celebrate the Lantern Festival with high hopes and rice dumplings
Thousands in Taiwan and China have celebrated the Lantern Festival, a holiday that marks the end of the Lunar New Year period and is celebrated annually on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar.
Taiwan Lantern Festival 2025 Kicks Off with the Theme Infinity Paradise
This year, the festival is centered in Taoyuan, a city in Taiwan that symbolizes baseball culture and international transportation.
China: Lunar New Year festivities conclude with Lantern Festival
China celebrates Wednesday the Lantern Festival with bright red lanterns, called “huadeng”, which closes two weeks of festivities for the arrival of the Lunar New Year. The streets of Chinese cities celebrate the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month,
Kalamazoo Chinese Academy rings in the Lunar New Year with lantern festival
The Kalamazoo Chinese Academy (KCA) hosted a lantern festival Sunday in celebration of the forthcoming final observances of the Lunar New Year.
Google Doodle Celebrates Lantern Festival 2025 with Cultural Significance
The Lantern Festival is a Chinese holiday marking the first full moon of the lunar new year. Families gather to celebrate and remember loved ones who have passed. It is also a time to pray for good luck in the coming year.
Yiyang celebrates Lantern Festival with dragon dance parade
Yiyang in Hunan province staged dragon dance performances on Tuesday to celebrate Lantern Festival, which fell on Wednesday.
"Wulong Xuhua" show held to celebrate Lantern Festival in Guizhou
People attend a "Wulong Xuhua" show to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Taijiang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 11, 2025. The traditional "Wulong Xuhua" show is a genre of dragon dance performed amid fireworks by the Miao ethnic group.
Taiwan: Taiwanese celebrate the Lantern Festival
Taiwanese celebrated the Lantern Festival on Wednesday with striking red lanterns, known as "huadeng," marking the end of two weeks of festivities for the Lunar New Year. (Camera: Ritchie Tongo.) Footage of Taiwanese celebrating the Lantern Festival in Taipei,
China celebrates lantern festival
China celebrates Lantern Festival, also known as the Yuanxiao Festival. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar and signifies the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations.
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Chinese culture on display at Lantern Festival celebration in Jordanian capital
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