The National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project - Yu Garden Lantern Festival will go abroad for the first time, and its first stop at sea is Paris, France. On November 29 (local time), the French Yu Garden Lantern Festival press conference came to the information, at present, the lantern festival has entered the lantern assembly stage, 60 gorgeous lantern groups and more than 2,000 lanterns in China after the completion of production, has arrived in France, in the Paris style garden for assembly and construction.
The staff has already begun to work on the construction of the lantern festival in the French Yu Garden.
From December 15, 2023 to February 25, 2024, the 72-day lantern festival spans New Year's Day, Chinese New Year, Lantern Festival and other important festivals, during which a total of more than 350 performing arts and experience activities will be arranged, dance, folk music, opera, acrobatics, martial arts and other performances will be staged every day.
2024 is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, and the Lantern Festival in Yu Garden has been listed as the opening event to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France and the Sino-French Year of Culture and Tourism, and will also be one of the high-quality series of activities in the bilateral cooperation between China and France in 2024. In January 2024, the Yu Garden Lantern Festival in Shanghai, China, will also be officially lit up, in conjunction with the Yu Garden Lantern Festival in France.
At the press conference, many highlights of this year's Yu Garden Lantern Festival in France were spoiled: the "Double Dragon Playing Pearl" gatehouse at the entrance, the dragon pillars decorated on both sides of the streets and alleys, and the "Fish Leaping Dragon Gate" lantern group ...... with a beautiful meaningThe dragon element of the zodiac in 2024 runs through the entire lantern festival. The theme of the lantern festival is "Mountains and Seas Have Spirits", based on the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as the design blueprint, and the "mythical beasts" full of mystery and imagination in ancient mythology are integrated into the design.
Oriental life aesthetics is also one of the highlights of this lantern festival, which not only has Chinese elegant life elements such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, tea, etc., but also has a combination of Eastern and Western cultural elements such as guqin and French horn, Go and chess. In addition, as the birthplace of the Lantern Festival in Yu Garden, many scenic spots in the oriental metropolis of Shanghai will also be transmitted to the French public through light and shadow art, such as the four major scenes of "Fenglou Overlook", "Yedu Pujia", "Haitian Rising Sun" and "Longhua Evening Bell" in the "Eight Views of Shanghai", as well as the landmark buildings of Yu Garden, such as the Jiuqu Bridge and the Huxin Pavilion.
* *Reporter Yin Liqin).