Lantern Festival 2025. Imagine stepping into a fairy tale as you wander through the streets of hoi an during the lantern festival in 2025. Carrying lanterns during the lantern festival began as a traditional folk activity.

Also known as the shang yuan festival or the yuan xiao jie festival, the lantern festival is a traditional chinese holiday that falls during the first month of the lunar calendar,. On the night of the chinese lantern festival, streets are decorated with colorful lanterns, often with riddles written.