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Chinese Lantern Festival #30599709
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The Chinese Lantern is a festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year in the lunar calendar marking the last day of the lunar New Year celebration. It is also known as the Yuanxiao Festival or Shangyuan Festival; Chap Goh Meh Festival in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore; Yuen Siu Festival in Hong Kong, Tết Thðợng Nguyên or Tết Nguyên Tiêu in Vietnam; and, KoshÃ
Âgatsu in Japan. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns. This photo is taken in Taipei, Taiwan on March 27, 2013.
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