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The 2025 Lunar New Year Peace Lantern Festival will be held from January 29 to February 12 (Lunar New Year's Day to the 15th). Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple has planned a variety of activities, large and small, to inspire joy, compassion, and wisdom. For over 40 years, this event has brought Fo Guang Shan devotees and friends from around the world together to celebrate the Lunar New Year with joy, peace, and spiritual growth. The 2025 Peace Lantern Festival will be held from January 29th to February 12th (Lunar New Year’s day to the 15th day of the lunar calendar). Origin of the Peace Lantern Festival. In line with the concept of purifying minds and building a Pure Land on earth, Venerable Master Hsing Yun initiated the New Year Festival of Light and Peace in 1980, an innovative way to spread the Dharma for the Buddhist community. It marks the first full moon of the new lunar year and the end of the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) period. Chinese Lantern Festival 2025 will be celebrated on February 12th in 2025. On the night of the Chinese Lantern Festival, streets are decorated with colorful lanterns, often with riddles written on them. The seventh day of the Lunar New Year (February 4, 2025) is said to be when the Chinese mother goddess, Nuwa, created humanity. Thus, it’s called renri/jan jat (the people’s birthday). The Lantern Festival aims to promote reconciliation, peace, and forgiveness. The holiday marks the first full moon of the new lunar year and the end of the Chinese New Year (see Lunar New Year). During the festival, houses are festooned with colourful lanterns, often with riddles written on them; if the riddle is answered correctly, the solver The Chinese Lantern Festival, also known as Yuan Xiao Jie or Shang Yuan Festival, falls on the 15th day of the Chinese New Year. In 2025, it will be celebrated on the 12th of February. The Lantern Festival marks the end of the Chinese New Year Festival. All the celebrations stop from this day, and the new year taboos are no longer in effect. The Basics. The Lantern Festival celebration dates back some 2,000 years to lanterns hung in Buddhist temples by monks during the Han Dynasty. By imperial decree, temples, homes and palaces across China adopted the practice of hanging brightly-lit lanterns on the 15th night of the year’s 1st lunar month. New Year: Day 15 (Feb. 12, 2025), the Chinese Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the New Year is the Chinese Lantern Festival (元宵节 Yuánxiāo Jié /ywen-sshyaou jyeah/). It is the traditional end of Spring Festival celebrations. Performers create sparks with molten steel at a Lunar New Year lantern festival in Nantong, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. AFP People pray during celebrations at Fuk Ling Miau temple in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Chinese New Year (also called Spring Festival or Lunar New Year) is the most popular holiday in China and Chinese communities around the world.. As one of the most important and distinctive traditional Chinese folk festivals, Chinese New Year carries rich cultural connotations and profound national emotions. The Lunar New Year holiday comes to its climax with the Yuan Xiao (元宵节 / yuán xiāo jié), or Lantern Festival, celebrated on February 15, 2022.. The festival began over 2000 years ago and has developed many meanings. World renowned action superstar Jackie Chan has wished for world peace even as he greeted all his fans around the globe and wished them a happy Chinese New Year of the Snake. Taking to his X timeline, Jackie Chan wrote, “Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake! Wishing all my friends and fans all over We honor our deceased ancestors while promoting peace and reconciliation by lighting lanterns as we celebrate the New Year. As we approach the Chinese New Year on February 12 (marking the year of the Ox in 2021 and lasting through February 26), we wanted to share the origins, craft, and cultural experiences that we traditionally associate with Bid farewell to recent pandemic-induced, stay-at-home orders and usher in the 2024 New Lunar Year with a sense of ease, harmony, and joy at Hsi Lai Temple, Feb. 10 - 24. As long as one goes with the flow like clouds and water, living freely and at ease, life will be wonderful. As long as everyone has joy and compassion in their hearts, the radiated temperament will be one of joy and harmony Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year, marking the final day of new year celebrations. This year, Lantern Festival falls on February 12, 2025. Learn about the mythical and historical origins of this romantic holiday and how it is celebrated. Chinese New Year 2025: Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, is a significant festival celebrated by Chinese and East Asian communities worldwide. It lasts 15 days, from the end of the first lunar month to the Lantern Festival, which commemorates the first full moon of The holiday lasts from Wednesday to Feb. 15, which is the Lantern Festival.. Why does the Chinese New Year fall on different dates each year? The Chinese New Year follows a lunar calendar based The Lantern Festival marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations. This tradition aims to promote peace, reconciliation and forgiveness. People decorate their homes with colorful lanterns THE Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is the most prominent and celebrated festival among Chinese people. Its history can be traced back thousands of years. The holiday begins on the first day of Chinese lunar calendar and ends on the 15th day of the same lunar month, which is celebrated as the Lantern Festival.
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