A guide to the highlights of the Spring Festival Temple Fair at the Beijing World Expo

On the occasion of the New Year, the first Spring Festival Temple Fair at the Beijing World Expo was officially opened. This temple fair welcomes the New Year and Chinese New Year in a low-level way. There are many cultural highlights waiting to be discovered, taking you to see the Chinese New Year.

Font The 162-day Beijing World Expo has left a rich legacy for the world. After the Expo to use it, both the requirements of the central and municipal party committees, but also Yanqing and the surrounding areas of the development of the reality of the need to carry the ardent expectations of the general public. According to Zhang Lanian, chief engineer of the Beijing World Expo Bureau, after the Expo, the park will be built into an ecological civilization education base and a tourist destination for the people of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and connect with activities related to the Winter Olympics to develop the horticultural industry.

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Zigong lanterns, as China's intangible cultural heritage, began in the Tang and Song dynasties and has a long history. This time is since the 1988 Beihai Park Lantern Festival, after more than 30 years, Zigong lanterns come to Beijing on a large scale. The first World Park Cultural Temple Fair off-site **** set large lamps and lanterns 52 groups, an area of more than 60,000 square meters, showing the World Park, Winter Olympics, New Year's three major themes. Among them, the performance of the Year of the Rat New Year's "Year of the Rat meets the Spring Festival" light set with cute cartoon rats as the theme element design, and with the Yuanbao, koi fish, firecrackers and other elements, the whole set of lights overflowing with a strong atmosphere of the Spring Festival, signifying the Year of the Rat good luck. The main body of the lantern group is 12 meters high and 11 meters in diameter, which is the highest lantern group in this exhibition. In addition, the 50-meter-long "Dragon Dragon China" and 30-meter-long "Phoenix Dancing in the Nine Heavens" lanterns are majestic and will become one of the main card sites for visitors.

Zigong colored lanterns

, the first world garden culture temple fair to expand the operation of the new model. Compared with other temple fairs, this World Garden Cultural Temple Fair lasts longer, from January 1 to February 29, two months will run through the New Year's Day, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Alpine Skiing World Cup Yanqing Station and other festivals and major nodes. During this period, a variety of festival celebrations will also be held. Sichuan opera face changing, Yanqing rice-planting song, bamboo horse and other special flower show with Sichuan characteristics, opera performances will also be staged in turn.

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Temple activities play guide

The first World Park cultural temple fair will be the most representative of the folk activities in Yanqing, folkloric flower show to the Beijing World Park. Horses, stilts and other stunts are staged in turn, and there are Yanqing folk performances from the first to the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. At the same time Yanqing's non-heritage performances and Zigong's folk performances from afar will be staged together, ensuring that you will be overwhelmed.

See

Paper-cutting, window-paneling, lantern-painting, and the Lai Shi Garden Cultural Temple Fair, all traditional folklore that you can experience for yourself! There are also pot throwing, lassoing, doll painting, balloon blowing, which are suitable for both young and old. The whole family will be rewarded!

Play

Are you hungry? It doesn't matter! Several special food areas are calling for you ~ Yanqing special snacks and authentic Sichuan snacks, with the taste of New Year on the tip of the tongue, to accompany you to trace the memory of the good times! When you are full, go to the mysterious Fantasy City of Lights to have an adventure! Snow caves, prehistoric jungles, and desert oases are sure to be the kids' favorites!