In order to allow Beijing citizens and tourists to spend a festive and lively Lantern Festival, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, in conjunction with various districts and industry units, will carry out 300 temple fairs, garden fairs, lantern festivals, dragon dance flower festivals, etc., more than 400 colorful mass cultural activities, and major commercial performance venues will stage 135 dramas, operas, children's dramas, ** meetings, etc., 261 boutique performances, to create a holiday "cultural feast", and create a festive, joyful and peaceful festival atmosphere.
As traditional folk activities, temple fairs, garden tours, and lantern festivals are well received by the masses. Qinglonghu Park New Year Garden Fair, Nangong Lantern Market, Shijingshan Amusement Park's New Year Lantern Festival, Tongzhou District's "Year of the Dragon, Enjoy Tongzhou" Spring Festival Garden Party, New Year's Prosperity to Songzhuang - New Year Lantern Festival, Changping District's 2024 Strawberry Farm Longteng Shengshi Lantern Temple Fair, Ming Tombs Shenlu Scenic Area New Year Garden Fair, Miyun District's "Temple Fair at the Foot of the Great Wall" series of activities, Yanqing District's second Beijing World Garden Lantern Art Festival and many other activities will continue to be held until the Lantern Festival to meet the needs of citizens and tourists to visit the temple fair, visit the big market, enjoy the cultural needs of lanterns.
The city will continue to make use of business districts, blocks, squares, cultural centers, libraries and other places to carry out various traditional cultural and folk activities such as dragon and lion dances, gong and drum performances, flower parties, and car parties. Among them, Chaoyang District will hold the 11th Wenyuhe Folk Culture Festival and Lantern Festival Folk Culture Activities, and launch the "Flags and Drums Move Thirteen Files" folk flower display, handmade and other content. Shijingshan District will hold a Lantern Festival riddle carnival with the theme of "Encounter in Western Beijing, Meet Beauty--Different", and launch lantern viewing activities, lantern riddle guessing and special parade activities. Changping District will hold the "Light up Changyu City" folk culture festival, and carry out activities such as Jiuqu Yellow River lanterns and folk culture experience. Fangshan District will hold the Lantern Festival Flower Show, and organize the car club, Taiping Drum, Lions Club, Noisy Child's Club, Dragon Dance Team, Stilt Yangge and other marching performances. Pinggu District and Yanqing District will hold Lantern Festival flower exhibitions, with "walking the street" and "visiting the garden" as the main forms to create a strong festive atmosphere.
The city's public cultural service institutions at all levels actively guide the citizens to create, perform, and display outstanding mass literary and artistic works, and form an atmosphere of mass performances, performances, and mass music. Dongcheng District will hold a cross talk meeting of the Bell and Drum Tower. Haidian District will hold the Lantern Festival of "Enjoy the Lantern Festival, Spring Celebration Kyushu". Fengtai District will hold a special cultural performance of the Lantern Festival variety show. Fangshan District will hold a series of special performances for mass art performances. Tongzhou District will hold performances of excellent repertoire such as quyi and children's dramas to benefit the people, bringing high-quality literary and artistic resources to the doorsteps of citizens.
During the Lantern Festival, public libraries at all levels in the city rely on collection resources to carry out a number of reading activities that are popular with the masses and promote the national reading brand. The Capital Library will launch reading activities such as Sister Honghong's storytelling - Lantern Festival story meeting and reading story discovery meeting "Playing Lanterns". Dongcheng District Library will hold a classic poetry recital of "Shangyuan Lights Jade Dragon Spring". In addition, the city's cultural centers (centers, rooms) at all levels carefully plan and launch a number of mass cultural activities to create a "cultural feast" at the doorstep of citizens. The Xicheng District Cultural Center will hold the 2024 Lantern Festival Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Opera Masters Concert of "Watching the Great Opera to Xicheng". The Haidian District Cultural Center will hold the "Tasting Folk Customs and Skillfully Painting Dreams" - the 2024 Haidian District Lantern Festival themed cultural activity. Chaoyang District will hold public welfare film screenings at the District Cultural Center, Fatou Regional Cultural Center, Xiangheyuan Regional Cultural Center and other places. The Shunyi District Cultural Center will hold cultural activities for the Lantern Festival, launching exhibitions, quizzes and other rich content.
The three major cultural buildings in the sub-center of the city are rich and colorful. The Beijing Arts Center will present the National Centre for the Performing Arts Chorus with the theme of "Reunion with the Bright Moon". The Beijing City Library will hold a number of festival activities such as the intangible cultural heritage exhibition "Shadow Puppet Play", the appreciation of Chinese poetry, songs and vocal music, and the Lantern Festival - ancient paper-making flower lanterns. The two major exhibitions of the Grand Canal Museum in Beijing, "Colorful Colors - Ancient Colored Glazed Porcelain from the Palace Museum" and "Pearls from the Sea - Treasured Cultural Relics from the Collection of the Beijing Cultural Relics Exchange Center" are still open.
The city's 117 commercial performance venues will stage 135 sets of 261 commercial performances to accompany the public to spend the festival together. The classic drama "Teahouse" of the Beijing People's Art Theater will be performed at the Capital Theater; The National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera House and the National Centre for the Performing Arts will stage the dance drama "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Chinese Orchestra Lantern Festival" respectively; Beijing Peking Opera Company will stage "Lantern Festival: Peking Opera Masters Concert" at Chang'an Grand Theater; The Northern Kunqu Opera Theater will perform the Kunqu Opera "Han Palace Autumn" at the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater; The Beijing Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music will be played at the Shunyi Grand Theater; The poetry drama "The Feast of Life" co-produced by the Beijing Chinese Orchestra will be unveiled in the future theater; The Chinese puppet theater Kaku Theater will bring "Kaku Big Project - Wishing Dragon Ball" to children.
Text: Beijing Youth Daily reporter Guo Jia.
Edited by Qiao Ying.