From NPR.

The Lantern Festival was held yesterday in China and Taiwan. It marks the end of Lunar New Year celebrations and is held on the first full moon of the lunar calendar. This year’s event featured a total lunar eclipse, which darkened the moon last might for people in North America.

The lantern festival marks the 15th day of the lunar new year — and a time for family and friends to gather.

In Taiwan’s Pingxi district, people gathered as tradition and let go large paper wish lanterns, on which they’d written with ink calligraphy their wishes for the year of the fire horse.

And in China, people held parades and dance performances to celebrate the full moon. And people ate tangyuan — sweet, glutinous rice balls often filled with sesame paste — because their shape resembles the full moon.