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Zigong Lantern Festival in Sichuan is a must-see tourist attraction during the Spring Festival. Is there anything interesting here?

Walking into the Lantern Park, people are like weaving, happily watching groups of colorful lanterns. Do not forget your initiative mind, keep in mind the mission. Big lanterns are all bright lanterns arranged in 24 solar terms. Wow! This is made up of all dinosaurs. It is composed of all the dinosaur lights that shake their heads and tails. It is lifelike and has all kinds of sounds and shapes.

Look, this is a lively and lovely China animal light group composed of peacock, panda, crane, carp and golden dog, which has a high simulation stereoscopic effect. It is a water lotus lantern symbolizing good luck and peace. Let's take a look, here is a large group of lights composed of Sichuan Salt Ancient Road and Salt Horse Gang, which has historical and cultural heritage. This is a large-scale lantern group composed of song and dance performances and majestic and tall flowers. And ... these magnificent, wonderful and dazzling lanterns dazzle tourists and make them linger.

As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, Zigong had the custom of watching lanterns in the New Year, which further developed into various festivals in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, there were "Lion Lantern Festival" and "Lantern Festival". "After the eighth day of the first month, all temples burned trees. There is a red light on the door. In the New Year, the lights are brightly lit ... a city of small shops, all kinds of small shops. " It is tall and heavy, carved with beams and painted buildings, inlaid with lights like stars, and a pavilion is burning with four or five hundred lights, which is gorgeous and beautiful. Westerners like it, but Beijing can't. "

Zigong Lantern Festival entered the beginning of this century and was all the rage. Every year on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, everyone goes out to play with a red light. Light poles, hanging palace lanterns, lion lanterns, dragon dances and lotus lanterns are still the main celebrations of the Spring Festival. The customs such as "Lantern Festival", "River Lantern" and "crossing the sea by hiding the sky" are quite popular in Zigong area, with strong local customs and folk customs. Zigong Lantern Festival is famous for its grand style and scale. Win with ingenious conception and exquisite production; Blend with the scene, confusing and endless. One of the most remarkable features of Zigong Lantern Festival is the organization of dozens of large and medium-sized lamp groups and thousands of kinds of craft lamps.