Today is the Lantern Festival!
It's a lot of merrymaking and fun, and fireworks have already been set off since the night before.
It is celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month, which differs in its actual date each year, and it is the last day of the Lunar New Year festivities.
Fireworks, lanterns, and parades of elaborately shaped creations light up the entire night in asian cultures.
Children hold paper lanterns that are often shaped like the zodiac animal for the year, and families eat a [tang yuan] that is made a little differently than the kind from the Winter Solstice, mostly with regional adaptations.
