Folk activities offered to celebrate Lantern Festival

Fat chicken competition

Lecheng Old Street holds a fat chicken competition every year to celebrate the Lantern Festival. [Photo by Yuan Chen/Hainan Daily]

On the evening of the Lantern Festival, families around Lecheng Old Street often place a boiled chicken with flowers in its mouth and a necklace around its neck on a table in front of their doors. Judges select the fattest chicken and its owner receives respect for his hard-work and talent.