On February 14, tourists visited the lantern festival on Dingsheng Yuanbao Street. Photo by Hebei ** reporter Li Jiancheng.
At 18:30 on February 14, starting from Chengde City, driving along Dingsheng Road to the vicinity of the comprehensive service station of Dayuanbaoshan Village in Shuangluan District, the road began to be congested. It is still nearly a kilometer away from the site of the heyday of the royal lantern festival.
The closer you get to the scene of the lantern festival, the more vehicles on the road, the sides of the road are already full of cars, and there is a police officer directing traffic every 100 meters. Finally found a parking space, and the reporter walked to the lantern festival site with a large number of tourists.
Passing through the parking area, a rough observation shows that Beijing and Tianjin vehicles account for about forty percent. "This parking lot can meet the parking needs of thousands of cars, and it is full every day during the Spring Festival holiday. Li Ran, planning manager of Dingsheng Yuanbao Street, introduced.
Coming to the east entrance of Dingsheng Yuanbao Street, looking up, you will be greeted by the "Panlong Jade Seal" group of lights, and the domineering shape attracts many tourists to stop and take pictures. According to reports, the 9th Dingsheng Royal Lantern Festival takes Dingsheng Yuanbao Street as the main body, integrates light shows, DJ performances, traditional folk performances and fixed-point performances and other forms to provide tourists with a diversified play experience and create an immersive, interactive, scene-based and entertaining new Spring Festival Lantern Festival.
Entering the prosperous Yuanbao Street, the top of the head "Eighteen Palms of the Dragon", "Lucky Star Gaozhao" and other landscape group lights are gorgeous and colorful; On the side of the street, rows of shops are particularly festive under the decoration of various lanterns, and various shops such as gourmet shops, restaurants, and intangible cultural heritage experience halls are full of people; On the side of the road, the prosperous shadow, the prosperous plum painting, the year of the dragon, and the opera welcome the spring ......The well-designed cross-dressing photo spots have attracted many tourists to queue up to check in; On the street, parents hold their children, couples hold hands, and juniors support the elderly, laughing and laughing all the way.
On the stage of the central square of Yuanbao Street, performances such as Haicheng stilts, Tongliang Dragon Dance, fast song and hot dance, and DJ light show were staged in turn. As a well-known "Internet celebrity" check-in place in the neighborhood, Geometry Bookstore not only has a wealth of books, but also prepares dozens of experience activities for teenagers, such as painting, printing, stereotyping, and sculpture. "This lantern festival is very different from what we used to see, it is more like a light and shadow show that integrates tradition and fashion, culture and technology, with a stronger cultural flavor and more new ideas. Li Tianyi, a tourist from Beijing, said.
Thousands of bright lights gather the oriental national tide, the amiable lights illuminate the reunion of thousands of families, and the crowds are immersed in the cultural charm. Li Ran said that the biggest feature of this year's lantern festival is to turn the lantern into a city, and turn the lantern festival into a happy market with lights as the scene. Dingsheng Yuanbao Street has set up five outdoor market areas and children's entertainment areas, bringing together all kinds of special snacks, New Year's goods, intangible cultural heritage, cultural and creative products, eating, drinking, playing and enjoying everything. Costume performances and other links were also arranged to interact with tourists, send New Year's blessings and gifts, and increase the happiness experience of tourists. Randomly hold activities such as large screen**, prayer wall**, value-for-money spikes and on-site interaction. A series of "big meals" full of New Year's flavor allow visitors to watch the lantern festival not only to see it, but also to eat and have fun.
According to preliminary statistics, we receive more than 10,000 tourists every day during the Spring Festival holiday, of which about 40% are tourists from Beijing and Tianjin, and the large and small hotels in the street have to turn over twice a night on average. Li Ran said.
At the "Chengde Shanshui" Agricultural and Sideline Products Exhibition and Sales Center in Yuanbao Street, Liu Shutian from Tianjin is selecting "almond tea". "Not only do you have to go to Hebei on the weekend, but you also have to bring back Hebei specialties. Liu Shutian said. (Hebei ** reporter Li Jiancheng).