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People's Daily reporter Wei Yanxing.
February 24 is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and it is also the traditional Chinese festival Lantern Festival. "The bright moon of the year begins with a round moon", the Lantern Festival represents the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year. People come together. This year's Lantern Festival continues the "cultural tourism fever" of the Spring Festival holiday, and lively celebrations will be held across the country, so that everyone can spend a lively, festive and peaceful reunion night.
Jiumo even lights and shadows, thousands of doors to spend the moon", "fire trees and silver flowers, Xingqiao iron lock open", "east wind night flowers thousands of trees, more blows down, stars like rain" ......Visiting the lantern festival, appreciating the lanterns, and guessing lantern riddles are the traditional customs of people celebrating the Lantern Festival. During this year's Lantern Festival, many places have created various lantern festivals with distinct themes according to their own characteristics, inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture and "lighting up" the holiday cultural tourism economy.
The theme of Shanghai's Yu Garden Lantern Festival this year is "The Legend of Mountains and Seas" - The Book of the Sea, which contains a total of 5 chapters of theme lantern groups, showing many auspicious and fantastic scenes of mythical beasts and fantasy scenes in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", presenting the magnificent wonderland of the zodiac dragon and marine flora and fauna intertwined for the general public and tourists.
Xi'an's "One Eye for a Thousand Years, Lights Shine on Chang'an" series of themed lantern festivals have been popular since their opening. The lantern festival of the Tang Palace in Daming Palace will last until March 17, and the theme lantern group will form a multicultural space such as beauty and beauty, etiquette in China, and Tang Dynasty banquet. The Xi'an City Wall New Year Lantern Festival with the theme of "Lights Warm Chang'an, Longqi Chinese Year" will last until March 24, and combine the lantern group display to innovate and carry out diversified interactive methods such as "AI to poetry" and human-computer communication, so as to realize the multi-dimensional interactive experience of tourists.
When spring arrives, people in the world are like jade, and the lamp burns the moon and the moon is like silver. The street is full of pearls and green village girls, and the gods of the Sheng Song Race Society are boiling. "In addition to lanterns, the Lantern Festival is also an important time node for the display of many intangible cultural heritages. Many places have organized colorful and distinctive folk activities during the Lantern Festival, and sent excellent traditional cultural feasts to the people.
From February 23rd to 24th, the "Colorful Intangible Cultural Heritage Lantern Festival" exhibition and dragon dance parade hosted by the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism opened in Huizhou, Guangdong. The exhibition invited some provincial and municipal characteristic intangible cultural heritage projects such as Tongliang Dragon Dance, Changxing Baiye Dragon, Banban Dragon Lantern, as well as national intangible cultural heritage representative projects such as Puning Ying Song and Huidong Fishing Song in Guangdong Province to perform and present a Chinese-style romance of "One Night Fish and Dragon Dance" for the audience.
The Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, together with various districts and counties (cities), launched a series of activities during the Lantern Festival. The "Lantern Festival" activity in Fuyang Xindeng Ancient City will present you with an interesting garden experience, and the "Afterglow Flying Dream Set Sail" Lantern Festival Happy Gathering activity in Yuhang District takes "Lantern Festival + New Year's Market" as the main scene, and citizens and tourists can wear Hanfu, visit the market, learn poetry and books, appreciate ritual music, and visit the ancient town.
The willow tops on the moon, people about after dusk. This year, a number of cultural and museum institutions have implemented extended opening hours during the Lantern Festival, so that visitors can also spend the Lantern Festival in "museums" after dusk. On February 24th, the Hubei Provincial Museum will open the Lantern Festival night tour at 19:30, open the exhibition halls such as "Zeng Hou Yi" and "Yue Wang Goujian Sword", and hold a lantern riddle guessing activity on the negative floor of the South Hall, and the hall of the North Hall will also perform free chime music and dance.
In order to meet the ardent desire of tourists to "check in" to the Spring Festival Gala venue, the opening date of the Industrial Museum of China will be advanced to February 24, the day of the Chinese New Year's Festival, and the closing time will be postponed to 8 p.m. Not only will there be a number of check-in photo walls such as "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala" on the visiting line, but also a "cultural gathering" will be opened in the preface hall, inviting intangible cultural heritage inheritors, cultural and creative brands, and local time-honored brands to participate in it, promoting cultural charm and showing the city's cultural style, fireworks, and human touch.