The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China.The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating dumplings, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals also added traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, walking on stilts, a land boat dance, a yangge dance, and beating drums. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
