Gallery: Lantern Festival Chengdu 2013
The Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao Festival or Shang Yuan Festival in China is a festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year in the Chinese calendar, the last day of the lunisolar Chinese New Year celebration. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns. It officially ends the Chinese New Year celebrations.