Festival Facts
Heritage/Folklore
Food
Origin/Lanterns
100

What does the Lantern Festival mark the end of?

What is Chinese New Year

100

What other countries celebrate the Lantern Festival?

what is South korea, Thailand, Taiwan, and the Philippines?

100

What is the name of the food that they eat during the Lantern Festival that is sweet and made from glutinous rice?

What is Tang Yuan/Yuan Xiao

100

Which color lanterns are most common during the festival?

What is red?

200

What is the moon phase during the Lantern Festival?

What is the Full Moon?

200

Which folktale is associated with the lantern festival?

What is the legend of the Jade Emperor and the Bird?

200

Sweet red paste that is in a tang yuan 

What is red bean paste

200

What do the red lanterns represent and what do they do?

represent fire and ward off evil spirits

300

When is the festival celebrated?

What is the 15th day of the First Month?

300

What tricked the Jade emperor into thinking that the world was burning?

People lighting lanterns

300

Sweet Paste in Tangyuan made from this type of seed

What are sesame seeds?

300

What does solving a riddle during the Lantern festival get you

What is wisdom and luck

400
what does the "Yuan" in Yuan Xiao Jie refer to?

What is the first full moon of the lunar new year?

400

Which mythical bird is said to have inspired the Lantern Festival?

what is the vermillion bird?

400

Filling for Tangyuan that is made from this type of nut

what are peanuts?

400

Which dynasty did the Lantern Festival originate from?

What is the Han Dynasty?

500

When will the Lantern Festival be this year (2026)?

When is March 3rd

500

What year was Yuan Xiao Jie recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage in China?

what is 2008

500

What does the round shape of Tangyuan symbolize?

What is Reunion and Unity

500

What Chinese emperor popularized lighting the lanterns during the festival?

Who was Emperor Ming of Han