Hua Lantern Competition Happy every year

Lantern Festival, flower lantern splendid. The brilliant lantern exhibition of The Qingming Upper River Park takes visitors back to the First Night of the Northern Song Dynasty and feel the charm of the Beijing Lantern Festival. Photo by Yuan Hang

On February 14th, the Lantern Market on Prosperity Street in Weidong District, Pingdingshan City was crowded, and parents took their children to choose lanterns to welcome the Lantern Festival. Photo by Wang Weiqiong

Sui and Tang Luoyang City launched the "National Style Sui Tang Shangyuan Festival" activity, tourists dressed in Hanfu climbed the Yingtianmen Que Tower, watched the ten thousand bright lights, and enjoyed the "snow scenery" of the ancient capital. Sui Tang Luoyang City courtesy of the map

On February 14, the actors of the Huaxia Ancient Orchestra of the Henan Museum performed the "One Glance at the Millennium, One Thousand Years" Lantern Festival Ancient Music and Dance Program. Photo by Wang Zheng, a reporter of this newspaper

Editor's Note

In the Chinese Year, the Lantern Festival, which is always celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month, is not complete. The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival and the Lantern Festival, is the festival that best embodies Chinese romance. "Who can sit idly when they see the moon?" Where does the smell of the lights not look? "Wearing Hanfu, guessing lantern riddles, watching flower lanterns, eating tangyuan... Feel the charm of traditional culture in the midst of hilarity. On this day, accompanied by the first full moon of the Lunar New Year, there are not only the lights and lights, the splendor of the fire tree and honeysuckle, but also the warmth of the reunion of every family, and the beautiful expectations for the coming year. The tiger "laughs" to welcome the Lantern Festival and opens a "new" journey.

Taste folk customs Enjoy a feast

This newspaper news (reporter Wang Ping Henan newspaper all-media reporter Wang Xuan) brilliant lights tell the story of the Three Kingdoms, fire trees and silver flowers show the charm of Cao Wei. On February 13, Xuchang, a famous city of the Three Kingdoms, launched a "cultural feast" with "color and fragrance".

"Night Xuchang, the most three kingdoms." On the evening of the same day, in the scenic spot of Caowei Ancient City, colorful lanterns decorated with cultural symbols of the Three Kingdoms shone brightly in the night sky, and interactive cultural tourism programs such as "Parade of the Emperor of Wei" brought visitors a refreshing audio-visual feast; in the BalingQiao Scenic Area, the municipal intangible cultural heritage - "Playing Iron Flower" was brilliantly staged, and the two artists skillfully operated the action of scooping, hitting and throwing, and the fiery red iron juice splashed up to a height of one inch, blooming dazzling in the night sky, attracting the applause of the masses.

Colorful folklore, wonderful performances. In Xuchang Chunqiulou Scenic Area, Cao Cheng Xiangfu Scenic Area and other places, not only held a lantern exhibition, prize guessing lantern riddle activities, but also successively staged the Three Kingdoms elements as the main line of "Guan Yu Bing Candle Night Reading" and "Cao Cao Xu Tun Tian" and other sitcoms, bringing tourists a fresh experience through time and space.

"Look at the flowers and trees, and dance everywhere." On the banks of the moat of Xuchang City, the "Night Tour Moat" project held by Xuchang Water Bus Company attracts tourists to take a light boat, swing blue waves, enjoy flower lanterns, and feel a different visual feast.

Xuchang City Library also launched a variety of online activities such as "Our Festival, Lantern Festival" and "Ancient Rhymes Welcome the Lantern Festival, Poetry into Ten Thousand Homes", sharing Lantern Festival customs and famous poems and sentences with readers, showing the charm of traditional culture.

Guess the lantern riddle and appreciate the intangible cultural heritage

On February 13, although the weather was gloomy, the popularity of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center in Suiyang District, Shangqiu City, did not diminish. Rows of red lanterns hanging riddles are crowded, tourists gather in front of the riddles and rack their brains to guess the mystery; intangible cultural heritage performances take turns, the actors are a hundred times more energetic, and the audience laughs...

Under the mystery of "Rice Love Ice Cream Mountain Love Ice", citizen Li Lingyu repeatedly chanted "playing an athlete's name" and suddenly blurted out: "Gu Ailing, I guess!" ”

"The riddles are all very well prepared, and I've got two gifts." Li Lingyu is full of joy and a sense of accomplishment.

The Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Performance Woodblock New Year Painting Experience Office was surrounded by tourists and children who came to learn and experience. Non-hereditary heir Wei Qingsong instructed the children to dip the brush with black ink, evenly brush on the woodblock, and the red paper was laid out, brushed flat, and gently unveiled, "Gently, gently, you see the little tiger will come out." A New Year painting of "XiangRuifu Tiger" to welcome the New Year was completed in a happy atmosphere.

It is reported that the Lantern Festival series of activities is divided into the thirteenth of the first month and the fifteenth of the first month, two time periods, through the form of edutainment, let the masses participate in it, personally feel the breadth and depth of national culture, experience the charm of traditional culture, but also create a lively, red-hot, auspicious festival atmosphere.

Wear Hanfu and look at the flower lanterns

(Reporter Meng Xiangdong Diao Liangzi) Flowers and trees bloom at night in the east wind. More blowing down, stars like rain... Such a beautiful scenery of the Lantern Festival is vividly reproduced in Nanyang Province. Tourists and "talented women" dressed in various Han costumes travel to the palace, enjoy the flower lanterns, and guess the riddles.

On February 14th, walking into the Nanyang Mansion, the vermilion gate, the elegant and ancient style of the room, as well as the dazzling red lanterns, dazzling lights, young women dressed in gorgeous or elegant Hanfu strolled through it...

It is worth mentioning that this year's tickets for Nanyang Fuya appear in the form of "customs clearance documents". Every time visitors pass a level, the staff will stamp a unique red stamp on the ticket. Moreover, the "Golden Tiger Seal" jumps out of the traditional red background seal and adopts the form of rubbing, integrating the vivid image of the tiger with the elements of the Forbidden City, and collecting the wonderful history. In front of the "Gold List Title" and "Prophecy Come True" wall, tourists are crowded into the three floors outside, and some parents have hung their children's names on the wall to wish good wishes...

Citizen Ms. Wang took her parents and children to run more than a dozen miles to the house to admire the lights, she said excitedly: "In recent years, the lantern festival lights will be less, the Lantern Festival always feels that something is missing, this year's fu ya this kind of wearing Hanfu, flower lanterns, guessing lantern riddle activities, not only to give the citizens a good place to celebrate the festival, but also let more people love the essence of Traditional Chinese culture and folklore." ”