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China Prepares for Lantern Festival on First Full Moon of Lunar New Year

Posted Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Featured on Episode 21 of the 2009-2010 season

 

In China, the next celebration after the New Year is the lantern festival. On the night of the first full moon of the lunar New Year - this year it's February 28th - it's a tradition for people to walk about carrying lanterns, often shaped like the zodiac animal of that year. Not surprisingly, in the year of the tiger, tiger-shaped lanterns are the most popular.

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