New Year's Lantern Award I haven't been to the City God Temple for a long time, this time I took advantage of the Spring Festival holiday to take a large family to watch the Yu Garden Folk Art Lantern Exhibition with great interest.
As a national intangible cultural heritage, the Yu Garden Lantern Festival has become a landmark Chinese New Year cultural event in Shanghai since its inception in 1995, and has been held for 28 sessions so far. The 2024 Yu Garden Lantern Festival ushered in the 29th brilliant bloom, unveiling its mysterious veil in the strong flavor of the Spring Festival.
This time, the Yu Garden Lantern Festival created a total of five scenes: a night of fish and dragon dance, mirage, flying dragon leaping into the sea, splendid stars and chasing dreams. These five scenes create the image of the deep sea and the river map, and gorgeously present the wonderland of the dragon as a magical species and the vast ocean animal and plant kingdom in harmony.
As soon as we stepped into the Yu Garden, we felt as if we had entered a sea of lanterns, which was so shocking that we were dazzled to see it. The clicking sound of the cameras around me is incessant, and it turns out that everyone wants to keep this beautiful moment forever. I saw that this place suddenly became a sea of crowds and lanterns, only to see the tourists weaving, crowded, shoulder to shoulder, the crowd and the lanterns are intertwined, it is not spectacular, and it adds a lot of joy to the New Year.
The Yuyuan Lantern Festival combines the traditional Chinese lantern making process with the modern new lighting technology, builds a "cultural bridge" at the same time and across borders, and brings people a visual feast full of oriental aesthetics, which makes people involuntarily stop and stand, linger.