In 2024, the "New Year in the Old Summer Palace" Spring Festival garden party will open on the first day of the Lunar New Year and will be held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, leading visitors to feel the charm of the palace in the Old Summer Palace with creativity and technology, and taste the strong flavor of the New Year in history and culture.
The large-scale mecha art installation "Great Wall Dragon" on display in the South Gate Square of the Old Summer Palace. Using digital technology, "A Thousand Machines for the Old Summer Palace" is a comprehensive and vivid reproduction of the golden palace, and visitors can immerse themselves in the experience.
During the Yuanmingyuan garden tour, nearly 100 market stalls were also set up in the park, allowing visitors to enjoy the "fireworks in the world" during the Spring Festival.
Qiu Jing, Chief of the Publicity Section of the Yuanmingyuan Management Office, Haidian District, Beijing: We have designed five activity areas, including the Grand View of the Museum, the New Year Market, the New Year Palace Entertainment, and the display of time-honored brands. Our museum grand view area brings together museum culture and characteristic cultural and creative products from all over the country, as well as VR experience and the introduction of some characteristic museums, so that the scenes in ancient paintings can come to life and create an immersive park experience for visitors.
The dragon and lion dances are full of colorful activities to celebrate the New Year.
In the past two days, in Wuhan, Yichang and other places in Hubei, a variety of activities such as the Dragon and Lion Dance, the Dragon Year Lantern Festival, and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Market have added to the festive atmosphere while allowing people to feel the traditional New Year's flavor.
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, in Wuhan's East Lake Greenway, accompanied by the lively sound of gongs and drums, a traditional dragon and lion dance performance attracted many tourists. At the scene, the "auspicious dragon sending blessings" New Year market is also very popular. A dazzling array of New Year's snacks such as intangible cultural heritage sugar paintings, rock sugar gourds, and cakes also add a sweet taste to the New Year. At the Chinese New Year temple fair in Hankouli in Wuhan, tourists can watch folk customs, taste delicious food, and enjoy the Spring Festival holiday.
In Dangyang, Hubei, the Year of the Dragon lantern will be turned on brightly. Entering the exhibition area from the 10-meter-high "Dragon Soaring", the dragon nine sub-lantern groups are of different shapes, and the fire trees and silver flowers are dotted in between. The local lantern festival will last until the 15th day of the first lunar month, during which there will be a variety of activities such as intangible cultural heritage performances and fireworks markets.
See folk customs, taste food, and celebrate the New Year in the ancient city of Yuncheng.
During the Spring Festival, the ancient city of Yuncheng County, Heze, Shandong Province, is bustling and lively, and people feel the flavor of the New Year in the colorful folk performances, century-old opera singing, and authentic and delicious special dishes.
Accompanied by the passionate drums and sonorous gongs and drums, the golden dragon danced in the hands of the dancers, sometimes hovering and rising, sometimes swooping and swinging its tail, the scene applause, cheers one after another, the festive atmosphere came to the face.
Every year, Yuncheng will bring together the distinctive Chinese New Year folk activities and stage them in turn, tourists can also make traditional handicrafts such as paper-cutting and dough sculptures, and there are also performances of Chinese opera and national tide to let everyone appreciate the charm of traditional Chinese opera.
In order to allow tourists to realize the multiple enjoyment of audio-visual and taste buds, the local Yuncheng Chinese New Year's Eve meal has been moved into the ancient city, and all kinds of dishes are full of color and fragrance, including the characteristic elbow, red and bright color, fragrant, and even more appetizing.
The unicorn dance in the city is noisy for the New Year.
Qilin Xianrui, Guotai Min'an. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Qilin District, Qujing City, Yunnan Province held a thousand people to dance and paint unicorns, and opera, dance, instrumental music, opera, singing and other programs were staged in turn, giving everyone a visual feast of New Year folk customs full of New Year's flavor and wonderful.
Reporter Liu Wenjie: The unicorn auspicious descends to the world, and the dragon soars all over the world to celebrate the New Year. Now, 30 teams participating in the performance have been assembled here, everyone is wearing all kinds of unicorn costumes and wearing unicorn masks, and everyone will start from here and carry out roadshows and stop performances along the main road of the city.
In the lively sound of gongs and drums, the unicorn fairy riding the beast unicorn slowly walked slowly under the embrace of the float, and a number of unicorns of different shapes followed by the smart debut, sometimes shaking their heads and tails, sometimes carnival and frolicking, and the demeanor of the unicorn was displayed vividly and vividly in one move. Subsequently, a number of Ruilong broke through the clouds with the beat of the drum, turned over the river and the sea, and the majestic lion danced domineeringly, and the wonderful performance fully demonstrated the charm of traditional culture.