Lantern Festival

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WOTD – 5 February 2023

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.

Lantern Festival (plural Lantern Festivals)

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).
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).

festival marking the end of the Chinese New Year period

Catalan: Festival dels Fanalets m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 元宵節, 元宵节 (jyun⁴ siu¹ zit³)
Hakka: 元宵節 (Ngièn-siâu-chiet)
Mandarin: 元宵節／元宵节 (zh) (Yuánxiāojié)
Min Nan: 元宵 (zh-min-nan) (Goân-siau)
Czech: svátek lampiónů m
Dutch: Lantaarnfeest n
Esperanto: Lanterna Festo
Finnish: Lyhtyjuhla
French: fête des lanternes f
German: (Chinesisches) Laternenfest n, Yuanxiao-Fest n
Indonesian: Festival Lampion
Japanese: 元宵節 (ja) (げんしょうせつ, Gen shōsetsu)
Korean: 원소절(元宵節) (wonsojeol)
Macedonian: Пра́зник на фене́рите m (Práznik na fenérite)
Malay: Pesta Tanglung
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Lanternefesten
Polish: Święto Latarni n
Russian: пра́здник фонаре́й m (prázdnik fonaréj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: свѐтковина лампиона f
Roman: svètkovina lampiona f
Spanish: Fiesta de los Faroles f
Thai: เทศกาลโคมไฟ
Turkish: Fener Festivali
Ukrainian: свя́то ліхта́рів n (svjáto lixtáriv)
Uzbek: fonuslar bayrami
Vietnamese: Tết Nguyên Tiêu

festival celebrated chiefly in northern Thailand on the day of the full moon in the second month of the northern Thai lunar calendar