The lantern festival is on the 15th day of Chinese New Year season on the lunar calendar, and it usually also corresponds to the full moon. It marks the end of the Chinese New Season. After this day, lives goes back to routine. On this day people cut up all sorts of lanterns and decorate the streets and villages. Parents often make rabbit lanterns with wheels for their children so kids can pull those lanterns on the streets. In recent years, the lantern festival festivities have spread around the world like those pictures I took at Toronto’s Ontario Place.
Wow !!
What a beautiful colorful display!
Do you happen to know how long they leave it up, DrY?
Hi Karl, just back from USCAP trip.
The one in Ontario Place actually happens in summer and the exhibition lasts several weeks each year (I noticed this year, Ontario Place is undergoing a major renovation). The festival also happens in other North America cities like this year’s “Arizona Chinese Lantern Festival – February 19-22 and February 26-March 1 ~ 5PM to 10PM Each Night”.