The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival celebrated on the 15th day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar, marking the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations. Chinese people celebrate this special day by creating lanterns, eating sweet rice balls called yuanxiao or tangyuan, solving riddles on the lanterns and enjoying a diverse range of cultural activities – from dragon dance performances to lantern fairs. This 2,000-year-long tradition still thrives across China and carries the Chinese people's best wishes for the year ahead.