When is the fireworks display of Chaozhou Lantern Festival?

The performance time is 8: 00 pm on February 5, 2023 (the fifteenth day of the first month).

Setting off fireworks and firecrackers is a traditional folk custom passed down by the Chinese nation for thousands of years. On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, Chaozhou held a fireworks show to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Based on the unique landscape resources of Guangjiqiao, Hanjiang and Bijiashan, combined with the newly revised and upgraded "Light of Fengcheng" light show, a fireworks show with Chaozhou characteristics was created through the perfect combination of light show and fireworks show.

On the night of the Lantern Festival, Chaozhou in Fengcheng was full of brilliance, and a colorful fireworks show to celebrate the Lantern Festival was staged as scheduled. That night, 50,000 fireworks went straight into the night sky. The sky was gorgeous and the light and shadow were burning, which lit up people's happy smiling faces, outlined the beautiful life picture of chaozhou people, and wrote the pride, passion and glory of the city. This night, the solar terms are rich and the people are United. Everyone looks forward to the future and is full of confidence. In the new year, there is love and expectation, and with the fireworks on the stars, everything in my heart has come true.

Lantern Festival customs

1, eat Yuanxiao

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao".

2. lanterns

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations. On the fifteenth night of the first month, red lights are hung high in the streets, including palace lanterns, animal lanterns, lanterns, bird lanterns and so on, attracting people to watch lanterns. So the Lantern Festival is also called "Lantern Festival".

3. Dragon and lion dances

Dragon and lion dancing is an excellent folk art in China. Every Lantern Festival or assembly celebration, people always entertain themselves with lion dancing.

4. Solve the riddle on the lantern

Lantern riddle is a word game originated from Lantern Festival, also called Lantern Tiger. Putting riddles on lanterns for people to guess, the answer focuses on the meaning of words. There are 24 kinds of riddles, such as roller blinds, swings and phoenix-seeking, which form a unique folk culture.