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Last day of Chinese New Year celebrations

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Lantern Festival: Last day of Chinese New Year celebrations
The Lantern Festival, also called Shangyuan Festival and Cap Go Meh, is a Chinese traditional festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar, during the full moon. Usually falling in February or early March on the Gregorian calendar, it marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Year celebrations. As early as the Western Han dynasty, it had become a festival with great significance.

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WATCH: Philadelphia’s Franklin Square glows in annual lantern festival [Video]

WATCH: Philadelphia’s Franklin Square glows in annual lantern festival

WATCH: Philadelphia’s Franklin Square glows in annual lantern festival Sea of lanterns is lighting up Philadelphia’s Franklin Square this summer as the Chinese Lantern Festival returns for its..

Credit: euronews (in English)     Duration: 01:00Published

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