Where is the Luzhou Lantern Festival held?

In 2023, Luzhou Lantern Festival was held in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, and the first Lantern Festival was held in Shuanggui Square in Longmatan District.

Longmatan District will hold a lantern festival of "Jade Rabbit welcomes the new year and prays for the Spring Festival" in Shuanggui Square, with the restoration of the ancient lantern festival market as the main line and a river lantern ceremony. By inserting traditional folk art embedded performances, traditional entertainment items, intangible experience and shopping consumption into the market, citizens can feel the fireworks of the Spring Festival when eating, traveling, playing and shopping.

In addition, Naxi District will hold "Our Festival" and "Wan Chao Folk Custom, Naughty Spring in Naxi" in 2023, and arrange Hanfu theme market, traditional interpretation theater and non-legacy handicraft experience area, and carry out lantern riddles, Hanfu Garden activities, Bao Yuanxiao, on-site blind date, calligraphy and painting exhibitions and other activities.

Characteristics of Luzhou Lantern Festival

The activity takes the restoration of the ancient lantern festival as the main line, takes the characteristic folk lanterns as the main ceremony, and the market is interspersed with traditional folk art embedded performances, traditional entertainment, intangible experience, Hanfu parade and other special projects. Garden activities such as throwing pots, throwing sandbags, sucking blessings and solve riddles on the lanterns attracted many citizens to participate.

Citizens can get prize coupons by participating in garden activities in exchange for river lanterns or prizes. At 8 o'clock that night, a river lantern ceremony will be held to let the citizens feel the rich flavor of the New Year in laughter and pray for the New Year. The main purpose of holding the "Sidu Chishui" red cultural theme lantern festival is to hope that everyone will remember the revolutionary martyrs and remember that a happy and healthy life is hard-won.