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Chinese New Year: Lantern Colors Jan 3rd 2012, 11:02 Chinese New Year’s celebrations culminate with the Lantern Festival, a glowing spectacle of lanterns, cacophonous firecrackers, and mouthwatering food. Lanterns are hung outside homes and children carry small lanterns during the Lantern Festival. While modern lanterns come in all shapes and sizes â€" like paper, bamboo, and metal shaped like spheres, diamonds, animals and cartoon characters â€" symbolic colors help Chinese New Year revelers’ wishes come true. Lantern Colors and Their Meanings: Red: Good fortune Pink: Romance Peach-red: Decisions and opportunities Orange: Money Yellow: Success in school and/or job White: Health Light Green: Growth Light Blue: Hoping something comes true Light Purple: Idealism At lantern festivals, like the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in Taiwan, lanterns of varying colors and sizes are for sale. Revelers will choose the color that expresses their wishes and then write their corresponding wishes on the lantern. At some lantern festivals, the lanterns are launched like hot air balloons into the night sky.

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