Lantern Festival

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WOTD – 5 February 2023

Etymology

Lanterns displayed during the Lantern Festival (sense 1) in Taipei, Taiwan, near the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.
Sky lanterns being released during the Lantern Festival (sense 2) in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

From the carrying and displaying of lanterns during such festivals.

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Noun

Lantern Festival (plural Lantern Festivals)

  2. A festival marking the end of the Chinese New Year period, celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the Chinese calendar when the first full moon of the year is seen (in February or early March).
  4. ยี่เป็ง (Yi Peng), a festival celebrated chiefly in northern Thailand on the day of the full moon in the second month of the northern Thai lunar calendar (equivalent to the twelfth month of the lunar calendar used in the rest of Thailand, generally in November).

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