The Lantern Festival originated from the ancient custom of turning on the lantern to pray for blessings. On this day, people will enjoy the lanterns, eat the Lantern Festival, guess the lantern riddles, set off fireworks, among them, the lanterns as an important part of Chinese traditional culture, condense the rich cultural heritage, but also the intangible cultural heritage of our country.
Bright lights to welcome the festive season.
In Deqing, Zhejiang, the lantern festival attracts many citizens and tourists to roam and watch. At the beginning of the lanterns, more than 20 meters of lanterns are entrenched on the thousand-year-old city wall, showing the momentum of the dragon taking off and moving forward bravely.
Jiang Rui, a resident of Qianyuan Town, Deqing County, Zhejiang Province: Although the weather is quite cold, we can't resist our enthusiasm for coming to the Lantern Festival to enjoy the lanterns. The lanterns are bright and colorful, and all kinds of lanterns also convey festivity, happiness and auspiciousness.
The custom of hanging lanterns has a history and inheritance of thousands of years. The lantern is not only a decoration, but also a symbol of auspiciousness, happiness and prosperity. During the first month, people hang colorful lanterns to light up the night, adding a strong festive atmosphere to the festival.
In traditional Chinese culture, the lamp is a symbol of light, meaning hope and a bright future. At the same time, the lamp is also related to the "Ding", that is, the population, so the hanging lantern also means Tianding, implying the prosperity and prosperity of the family.
Li Lu, Vice President of Beijing Historical and Folklore Society: We in the northern region, especially in Beijing, like to hang red lanterns. When it comes to the Lantern Festival, the main thing is the marquee, and then there are some storylines that add to the festive atmosphere.
There are many kinds of lanterns in China, including palace lanterns, dragon lanterns, horse lanterns, lotus lanterns, etc., as well as Beijing lanterns, Quanzhou lanterns, Nanjing lanterns, Zigong lanterns and so on. This intangible cultural heritage, which has been passed down for thousands of years, has also added a lot of fun and good memories to people's lives.
Raise the fire of the society and make a Lantern Festival, the lanterns are bright and picturesque.
Zhuanglang County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province is a national intangible cultural heritage, as an important part of Zhuanglang Shehuo, every year on the twelfth day of the first month, more than 100 Shehuo teams from various towns and towns will gather in Zhuanglang to play high and make a fire. On February 21, Zhuanglang County, Gansu Province held a high-lift social fire exhibition as scheduled, and more than 200 social fire teams made a wonderful appearance.
In the Gaotai Society Fire Show, folk artists weld steel bars and steel pipes on floats to form a skeleton about 5 meters high, and then use colored strips and silk cloth to create landscapes, flowers, trees, animals or utensils according to the storyline of the dress, and children dressed up as various characters are on top.
In addition to the social fire show in Pingliang City, the lantern festival in Lanzhou City is also very lively. In Lanzhou's "Xigu Lantern Festival", all kinds of lanterns are brilliant and dazzling. This year, the local lantern festival takes "auspicious dragon + spring" as the main element, and consists of more than 200,000 LED lights to form a large light group, presenting a wonderful visual feast for the majority of tourists.
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