Fujian Fuding: The "Lantern Festival" lantern riddle exhibition promotes cross-strait cultural exchanges

Lantern riddle exhibition guess live.　Photo by Yang Jianping

Ningde, China, February 14 (Jiang Tingting) "Mom, how did the Lantern Festival come about?" Why guess the riddle of the lantern, what is the interesting story of our Lantern Festival? The Children of Taiwan compatriots born in Fuding City, Fujian Province, curiously asked their mother who married Fuding in Taiwan.

On the 14th, on the occasion of the Lantern Festival, Fuding City organized the vast number of Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan subordinates to participate in the "Lantern Festival, Civilization and Creation of the City" lantern riddle exhibition and guessing activity, jointly carry forward traditional culture, and work together to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

According to reports, the Lantern Riddle Exhibition and Guessing Activity has particularly highlighted the cross-strait theme and set up many themes containing cross-strait elements, so that compatriots on both sides of the strait can feel the breadth and depth of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

Lantern Festival lantern riddle is a traditional folk lantern guessing custom. At the event site, the flower lanterns, the riddles fluttered, the surging crowd, full of happy smiling faces, everyone or stopped to watch the flower lanterns, or meditated on the puzzles, the strong festive atmosphere was pervasive, a peaceful and festive scene.

The relevant person in charge of the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Fuding City said that this activity not only carried forward the new style of civilization in the new era, opened up thinking and increased insights, but also showed a vivid scene of the two sides of the strait sharing a cultural feast and building cultural self-confidence together. (End)