"Celebrate the festival with lanterns, rejoice and celebrate the Lantern Festival" lantern riddle guessing activity, February 23 at the Gongji Gate city wall ruins, citizens call friends, help the old and young to climb the city wall to guess the lantern riddles, enjoy the joy of traditional culture.
The lanterns report the Lantern Festival, and the years are full of snow and prosperity. There are many folk activities in the Lantern Festival, and guessing lantern riddles is one of the most distinctive activities. "Celebrating the festival with lanterns, rejoicing and joyful Lantern Festival" lantern riddle guessing activity is sponsored by the Taiyuan Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics and undertaken by the Revolutionary Activity Memorial Hall of the former site of Shanxi National Normal School. On the site of the arch gate city wall, the snow and the red light reflect each other, and more than 100 lantern riddle cards are hung under the lantern, covering the categories of red culture, party history knowledge, hot words in the new era, poetry and ancient texts, etc., both the traditional lantern riddles that are popular to see, and the brain-burning questions and answers full of creativity, integrating knowledge and interest, fully demonstrating the unique charm of China's excellent traditional culture.
At the scene of the riddle, people wandered among the red lanterns, there were silver-haired old people, childish children, or groups of three or five to discuss together, or alone to meditate, with a nervous and excited look on their faces, which was quite interesting. In addition to the lantern riddles, there are exhibitions to see on the ruins of the city wall, there are social fires to make trouble, "the vicissitudes of the ancient city, the splendid Taiyuan exhibition of the new face" ** exhibition, with the eight city gates of the old Taiyuan and today's Taiyuan as the theme, reflecting the changes of Taiyuan city, the new era of Taiyuan urban life, infrastructure construction, environmental and ecological landscape and other series of development changes, presented to tourists through the exhibition.
The Gongji Gate city wall, which was built in the Ming Dynasty, is now a red wall and a bluestone road, which complements each other with the lively and transpiring cultural fireworks. Reporter Chen Xinhua, correspondent Li Luyao, Wang Tianlei, Taiyuan Evening News.