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Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival · World Questions

The same lunar date is three different scenes in Taiwan alone — eating tangyuan and walking through a lantern display, releasing sky lanterns in Pingxi, or standing inside a wall of exploding fireworks in Yanshui — while in mainland China it is a working day, not one of the days off for all citizens.

How do you usually spend the Lantern Festival?

On the very same lunar 15th, one place turns it into three completely different scenes: eating tangyuan under a lantern display, releasing sky lanterns in the hills, and standing inside a storm of beehive fireworks. Where is this?

On the same fifteenth night, one place's parade centers not on lanterns but on people said to be possessed by ancestral spirits, carried through the streets and pierced by blades without bleeding. Where is this?

Guess: in which community is the star of the fifteenth night not the lantern but people held to be possessed by ancestral spirits, carried through the streets and pierced with blades without bleeding?

Asked by the 🇺🇸 English community

For the 🇹🇼 中文(台灣) community

On the fifteenth night after Lunar New Year, is there a lantern event where you are?