Photo by Yu Xiaojiang, the Third Qinhuai Source Lantern Festival in Lishui
Lishui National Intangible Cultural Heritage Luoshan Dalong Zhu Hongsheng photo
"The comprehensive popularity is 95.69, ranking first among major attractions in Nanjing." On the just released Nanjing Spring Festival scenic spot popularity TOP10 list, Lishui Qinhuai Source Lantern Will rank first in the city's scenic spot heat list. "Lishui launched a natural light strip, green New Year goods and intangible cultural performances, attracted a lot of popularity, from the current attention point of view, Lishui is one of the most flavorful places in Nanjing, deeply loved by tourists and the general public friends." Xia Jun, deputy director of the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, said.
Run a lantern festival to showcase a city
At the beginning of the lantern, walking on Lishui Street, Safflower Lane, Pagoda Road and Xiaoximen Street, the street trees on both sides of the road bloomed with colorful brilliance. This is a lighting pattern cleverly designed by relying on the shape of trees, and when night falls, the most ordinary streets in the daytime are gorgeously transformed, becoming a lantern field for citizens and tourists to marvel at. This is also a major feature of this year's Lishui Lantern Festival, on the basis of creating a key exhibition area, strengthen the atmosphere of the surrounding area, and attract more citizens and tourists to enjoy the lantern viewing.
The third Qinhuai Source Lantern Festival was illuminated on January 1, 2020, and 88 groups of exquisite lanterns were arranged in the areas of Pagoda Park, Zhuangyuanfang Park, Nanmen River, Moat and other areas, including four theme sections of Happy New Year Festival, National Style New Year's Taste, Minhe Nianfeng and Auspicious New Year, and the lantern group highlighted the humanistic story, the spirit of the times and the healthy ecological elements of Qinhuai Source, and the rich content and interesting shape of the lanterns attracted visitors from all over the world.
Real estate goods are widely favored
Although the weather is cold, the strawberry greenhouses in Lishui Honglan Fu's home and Dongping Changle are a warm scene, sweet and delicious strawberries continue to tease the taste buds of tourists, and tourists who come to pick them are bustling. "Coming to Lishui to pick strawberries is the prescribed action of our family's Spring Festival!" Mr. Liu from the main city of Nanjing said that because Lishui's strawberries are of good quality and taste, he will bring his family to Lishui every year to pick and swim.
Not only strawberries are sought after, but also Local products such as Honglan Royal Ribbon Cake, Hand-torn Wind Fish, Chrysanthemum Tea, Blueberry Juice, Green Plum Wine, and Nanji Rice are all hot-selling specialties of the New Year. "During the day, I was picking strawberries and buying New Year goods in Lishui, and the real estate New Year goods such as Lishui crisp green plums, blueberry juice, and Professor Huang's roast chicken have been filled with the trunk of the car." Tourists who came from Liyang said quietly.
At the RecentLy Held Lishui New Year Goods Festival, the scene of thousands of people playing soy sauce was very lively, and the opera special session attracted countless audiences, and international students from Japan, India and other countries also organized groups to come to Lishui to feel the strong Chinese New Year flavor.
This year, the Qinhuai Source Lantern Will last until February 11, during which the plum blossoms of 10,000 acres of Plum Blossoms in Lishui Fujiabian will be in full bloom, and enjoying the night plums, tasting farmhouses, walking green tours, and staying in homestays will all be popular routes for tourists to Lishui to spend the New Year. According to the relevant person in charge of Lishui, in key scenic spots and rural tourist spots such as Red Li Lane, TianshengQiao, Zhou Garden, DajinShan, Wuxiang Mountain, Fujiabian, etc., special cultural tourism projects such as "Writing Spring Festival", "Tie Flower Lanterns", "Guessing Lantern Riddles" and "Folk Food Exhibition" have been launched to introduce the Spring Festival and Lantern Customs to tourists, so that tourists can feel the folk New Year flavor with unique Lishui characteristics. (Li Li, Zhu Dianping)