2021 Yangzhou Lantern Festival lanterns where to buy

Lantern Festival to play lanterns is a traditional custom, a beautiful lantern is dazzling, Yangzhou is a very elegant city in the South, in the Lantern Festival is approaching here is a lot of beautiful lanterns for sale, so that people feel the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival ahead of time, we will look at the lanterns in Yangzhou.

Centralized trading "absent" retail singing

Qujiang Commodity City is the city's largest lantern market, the second day of the first month of each year, where the exclusive lantern wholesale and retail market set up on the official opening. Reporters yesterday at the scene to see, this traditional lantern market this year was not held, the market around the shadow of the lanterns do not see large-scale marketing. Into the interior of the market, the reporter saw, in front of some sales of palace lanterns, lanterns counter, placed some plastic lanterns, to the traditional palace lanterns, lanterns.

The reporter then went around the small commodity city and downtown, and found that this year's lantern market is mainly retail-oriented. In the vicinity of Qujiang Commodity City, the reporter saw sporadic stores selling lanterns. Around the city, the reporter also saw a lot of stalls selling lanterns vendors and tricycles pulling lanterns selling vendors? This year, the downtown lantern market from the centralized wholesale and retail, shifted to around the retail-oriented.

This year, there is a cloth tie "cow lanterns"

The reporter saw that this year's lanterns are many varieties, from the year of the cow "cow lanterns" to a variety of Chinese zodiac types of lanterns are available.

This year is the Year of the Ox, "cow lanterns" naturally sang the lead, there are cows sitting on the back of the cowherd boy "small cattle", there are cows sitting on the back of the fortune-making child, cattle printed on the body of the copper "fortune cow! There is the "Wall Street Bull" with a bull in the sky, the "Fortune Bull" with a child sitting on the back of the bull and copper coins printed on the bull. Novel shape, with electronic music, a variety of plastic "cow lanterns", very popular with the public. In addition to the "cow lanterns", this year's lantern market, there are "pig lanterns" "rat lanterns" and other types of zodiac lights and various toy lights.

Not only plastic lanterns are popular, real estate lanterns are also very popular. Compared with previous years, this year's traditional craft lamps are also innovative, the emergence of the cloth tie craft "cow lanterns". This "cow lanterns" is a cow shape, but also allows children to pull like "rabbit lights" to run, with lights and music. Compared with the past, this year's traditional "cow lanterns" has also been upgraded, the appearance of the lanterns changed to silk cloth, lanterns of the light system can be used with traditional candles, but also the installation of the electronic control equipment, cow's eyes, horns can be through the battery light.

Lantern prices overall higher than in previous years

However, because it is retail-oriented, lantern market prices are high and low, part of the price difference is amazing. In the East, the reporter saw, sitting on the back of a cow with a cowherd boy "small cattle" plastic lanterns stallholder's price of 55 yuan, while in the South, the same lanterns, the stallholder price of as little as 30 yuan, the price difference of nearly one times.

The reporter then compared other types of lanterns of the same variety, a variety of vendors selling prices are also high and low. Overall, this year's lantern prices are higher than in previous years, with sound and light plastic lanterns costing more than 30 yuan, while the average traditional lanterns are 50-80 yuan.

Lantern Festival custom features

Haunting lanterns

Lantern Festival folk have hung lights, playing lights, watching lights and other customs, so also known as the Festival of Lights. Taiyuan area, Taigu County, the lights are very famous, in the night of the first month of the fifteenth, the streets and alleys, red lights hanging high, there are palace lanterns, animal head lamps, horse lanterns, flower lamps, bird and bird lamps, etc., attracting the masses of lantern watching.

Lion Dance

Lion Dance is an excellent folk art in China, every Lantern Festival or gatherings and celebrations, the folk lion dance to cheer up.

"Lion Dance" began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, also known as the "Lion Dance", "Peaceful Music", generally completed by three people, two people dressed as a lion, a person as a lion head, a person as a lion body and back. One person as a lion body and back feet, the other person when the lion guide, dance method and there are cultural and military points, cultural dance lion tame, have shaking hair, rolling and other actions, martial arts lion lion lion ferocious performance, there are leaping, stomping, rolling colorful ball and other actions.