The 2023 Spring Festival and Lantern Festival are coming, in order to fully display the cultural characteristics of the folk New Year and create a festive atmosphere of "Red and Bright New Year", "Ancient Capital Datong Chinese Year" and "Happy Yungang Happy Year", Yungang District will hold the 2023 Yungang District New Year Lantern Exhibition Temple Fair on Coal Sea Avenue during the festival to display traditional culture one by one, leading the people of the whole district to join hands to welcome a new life and have a happy year.
The lantern exhibition and temple fair with the theme of "Happy Chinese Year - Authentic Yungang Taste" is sponsored by the district party committee and the district government, which means "enjoy welfare, enjoy good luck, enjoy good life, enjoy blessings, and send blessings", and strive to attract more tourists to meet in Yungang and appreciate the unique Yungang cultural style, which is a mass cultural activity with the largest scale, the largest folk performances and the most distinctive business in our district, and it is also a major measure to help the city's "Happy Chinese Year - Authentic Taste" to welcome the New Year and activate the great development and leap forward of the cultural tourism market in our region. Constantly meet the people's yearning for a better life with pragmatic actions.
During the period, cultural activities are splendid, including traditional skills such as hand-held lanterns, paper flowers, masks, interactive games such as hoops, pitching pots, and stilts, and the whole people can also participate in hanging lanterns and lighting lanterns for blessings, and the puppet blessing god God of Wealth parade provides mobile interactive experience, committed to taking root in the people's land to awaken the historical memory of the people, and presenting a traditional lantern cultural feast for the people of the whole region and the city.
It is understood that the event is opened on the second day of the first lunar month, consisting of the New Year Lantern Festival, folk performances, characteristic businesses and children's amusement parts, pre-set more than 30 sets of large-scale lanterns, more than 40 kinds of gourmet snacks, and various children's amusement facilities, all citizens and tourists can enter the park for free with electronic tickets, at the same time, the big copper hot pot of the Wang Fusheng Cauldron Banquet was invited into the event site to help, and displayed in the north of the intangible cultural heritage street, enhancing the connotation of this event. It has brought a happy and satisfying traditional festival experience to the broad masses of the people.