The full moon lights up the sky on the evening of the Lantern Festival. The festival, which falls on the 15th of the first month in the Chinese lunar calendar, marks the end of more than two weeks of the  Chnese New Year celebrations each year.

  Solving "Lantern riddles" is amomg the many popular traditional activities for the festival,which include eating Tangyuan,enjoying the ful moon, and being lost in colorful lighted lanterns.These guessing  games are referreed to as latern riddles because they involve riddles written on lanterns or on slips of paper attached to lanterns. They often contain messages of great wisdom and good fortune and gives children and others of all ages the opportunity to have fun while practicing language and problem-analysing skills. A good many of the classic riddles connect with Chinese character,historical figures, literacy references,or names of cities,and other places in China.People must guess the answer

by thinking about the various meanings of the words and phrases that make up the riddle.Basically,a tip may be provided,such as indicating whether the answer is a person a place, or a thing.