Album of Memory: Embracing the new year in watching lanterns-Xinhua
Album of Memory: Embracing the new year in watching lanterns
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2024-02-17 20:36:31
BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar when people celebrate the festival by going outdoor to see the world decorated by various lanterns made by folk artists from bamboo, wood, rattan, wheat-straw or whatever materials they can apply. Coinciding with the first full-moon night in the new lunar year, the fete witnesses people of all ages strolling around the lights trying to solve the riddles written on paper slips attached on the lanterns, a unique way to praise the new year with good wishes.
People watch lanterns on the Lantern Festival night in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, in 1979.People buy lanterns at a lantern shop during the Lantern Festival in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, in 1981.People visit a lantern show before the Lantern Festival in Shanghai, east China, in 1981.People watch lanterns during the Lantern Festival in Jianghan District of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, in 1982.Tourists visit a lantern show at the Pak Tai Temple during the Lantern Festival in Cheung Chau Island, south China's Hong Kong, in 1998.Tourists browse the hanging lantern riddles at the Wangfujing pedestrian street before the Lantern Festival in Beijing, capital of China, in 2003.Children shows their cartoon lanterns before the Lantern Festival in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, in 2004.People watch lanterns at Wulin Square before the Lantern Festival in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, in 2005.People attend a lantern folk activity before the Lantern Festival in Longdu Town in Shantou, south China's Guangdong Province, in 2008.Tourists watch lanterns on Dongguan Street on the night of the Lantern Festival in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, in 2009.Tourists celebrate the Lantern Festival on the night of the Lantern Festival in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, in 2016.Tourists watch lanterns at Beijing World Park on the night of the Lantern Festival in Beijing, capital of China, in 2019.Tourists and villagers play with fish lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival in Xitou Town in Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, in 2021.Tourists watch lanterns at the Hubei Provincial Museum on the night of the Lantern Festival in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province,in 2023.
