The Lantern Festival called Shangyuan Festival is a Chinese traditional festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar. It marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Year celebrations. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles that are written on the lanterns. Everyone—regardless of age or gender—goes out onto the streets to celebrate. Some of the children at school told me they were looking forward to going to Chatswood to celebrate.
Many of the books about Chinese New Year have already been borrowed from the library. Here's some that are specifically about lanterns.
• Lanterns and Firecrackers by Jonny Zucker and Jan Barger Cohen
• Chinese New Year Colors by Richard Lo
• Celebrating the Lantern Festival by Sanmu Tang
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