Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Lantern Festival: 2/12/2006

The fifteenth and last day of Chinese New Year celebrations is Lantern Festival (or Yuanxiao Jie).

Lantern Festival Origins

http://cny.blogspot.com/2005/02/lantern-festival-origins.html

Lanterns
http://cny.blogspot.com/2005/02/hong-bao-lanterns-for-15th-day.html
There are more crafts, including other lantern ideas at:
http://cny.blogspot.com/2006/01/childrens-cny-crafts-and-activities.html

Other sites on the festival include:
Taiwan government's official site on Lantern Festival
Chinese Lantern Folk Festival site from about.com.
The Chinese mainland will be lit up by an array of lanterns.

Lantern Riddles
Lantern riddles
http://cny.blogspot.com/2004/12/lantern-riddles.html
Answers for those riddles
http://cny.blogspot.com/2004/09/lantern-riddle-answers.html

Word riddles
http://cny.blogspot.com/2005/01/more-on-lantern-riddles-word-riddles.html
More lantern ridles
http://cny.blogspot.com/2004/12/more-lantern-riddles.html
http://cny.blogspot.com/2005/01/more-on-lantern-riddles-word-riddles.html

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