Lantern Festival celebrations across China Folk entertainers perform a show to celebrate the Lantern Festival which falls Feb 6 this year ...

Lantern Festival celebrations across China

Folk entertainers perform a show to celebrate the Lantern Festival which falls Feb 6 this year in Taiyuan, North China's Shanxi province, Feb 5, 2012. The Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao Jie is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year in the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Little New Year since it marks the end of the series of celebrations starting from the Chinese New Year. [Photo/Xinhua]

A lighting installation in the shape of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest in the Temple of Heaven shines in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province, Feb 5, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]

Women beat waist drums in Ansai county, Northwest Chian's Shaanxi province, Feb 5, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]

Folk artists stage a traditional performance of "Shehuo" to celebrate the Lantern Festival that falls on Feb 6, in Yuncheng city, northern Shanxi province, Feb 4, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]

People walk besides a dragon-shaped lantern on display during Lantern Festival celebrations in Taipei Feb 5, 2012. [Photo/Agencies]

The Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao Jie is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year in the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Little New Year since it marks the end of the series of celebrations starting from the Chinese New Year.