If you thought the Lantern Festival of China is just a day for family reunions and eating some yuanxiao, then, you are wrong. It is actually the Chinese carnival.
The Chinese traditional Lantern Festival, Yuanxiao Festival in Chinese, which is on the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar Calendar and falls on Feb. 17 this year, is actually not just about getting together with family but also means a date that all people should cheer up and celebrate. It is an ancient Chinese carnival.
Cao Baoming, the vice president of Chinese Folk Literature and Art Society, said that the Yuanxiao Festival, also known as "Shangyuan Festival" and " Lantern Festival，" had become a popular folk custom during the Han dynasty more than 2，000years ago.
The festival is usually considered as the last peak of Spring Festival because people will start their life in the new year officially after the day. People of the whole country will cheer up to celebrate it and also they will pray that Heaven will offer them seasonable weather for a healthy harvest in the new year. Therefore, the custom of joining for celebrations at Yuanxiao Festival is widely spread among ordinary people.
Every year, when the day comes, people will go out of their own houses to the streets to look at various lanterns, guess lantern riddles and watch performances of Dragon Dances, Lion Dances, stilt-walking, fireworks show and so on. Some of those traditional custom and activities are national intangible cultural heritages now.
Actually, the Lantern Festival is not a single festival, and it only could be understood in the context of the Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival eve is usually a night that people stay at home to wait for the coming of the new year. From then until the end of Lantern Festival, it is actually a whole process of people expanding their spaces of activities as well as interpersonal relation-ships.
The Lantern Festival of China means __________.

A．family reunions and eating some yuanxiao

B．a new starting of a year

C．reunions and celebration

D．saying good-bye between family members

The Lantern Festival of China is considered as a new start of the year because __________.

A．people will start their life in the new year officially after the day

B．people will separate each other to live after the day

C．there is no opportunity to reunite together again

D．there is no other festival to celebrate after the day

On the Lantern Festival people all go out to __________.

A．visit their friends and relatives

B．prepare for some lanterns

C．clean the streets and other places

D．guess Lantern riddles and watch various activities

The activities on the Lantern Festival people do are the following except __________.

A．dancing	B．fireworks show
C．stilt-walking	D．playing poker