Publish Date:2024-02-28
The 15th day of the first lunar month or February 24 in 2024 is the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival. Shaolin Temple permanent residence compound is peaceful and solemn with candlelight winding. Shaolin Buddhists, under the leadership of the Grand Monk Shi Yongxin, abbot of Shaolin Temple, held lamps with colored glass shade in hands to transmit in turn that night.
Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival which spread to China during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han learned from Buddhism’ s practice of watching Buddhist relics and lighting lantern for Buddha worship on the 15th day of the first lunar month, giving orders to light lanterns at the palace and in temples to worship Buddha that night. Then it developed a festival folk custom of watching lantern on lantern festival later.
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