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Eating Yuanxiao on Fuxing Train, Lantern Festival

Editor:李莎宁
Source:english.rednet.cn
Updated:2019-02-19 15:26:43

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Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month. Lantern Festival is an important festival and traditional festival in the Chinese New Year . On G312 Fuxing high speed train from Hong Kong to Kunming, passengers and the staff celebrate the festival by the customs of putting together the Spring Festival couplets, hanging lanterns, sticking window flowers. Tourists from mainland, Hong Kong and overseas are singing, dancing, guessing lantern riddles and eating Yuanxiao (also called as tangyuan, which is a glutinous rice ball) on the train, February 17.