Has the Zigong Lantern Festival started?

Zigong Lantern Festival opens on Feb. 5, 2023

According to reports, the Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival is scheduled to open on February 5th. This year's lantern fair to "dream light - the city of a thousand lights" as the theme, will continue to break through on the basis of the previous lantern fair to improve, with colored lights connecting reality and Yuan universe, set the light tour, dining and entertainment, cultural and creative performances, online and offline interaction and other ways to play in one, to create one of China's largest Yuan universe of colored lights, "the city of a thousand lights". The City of a Thousand Lanterns".

Zigong Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival (Zigong Lantern Festival), Zigong City, Sichuan Province, local traditional folklore, one of the national intangible cultural heritage. As early as in the Tang and Song dynasties, Zigong region has the custom of New Year's viewing lanterns, to the Qing Dynasty, there are "lion lanterns market", "Lantern Festival" and other activities, to the early 20th century, and gradually formed a festival lanterns, lanterns, lanterns, and dragon lanterns dance and other activities.

Gradually developed into a collection of folk style, folklore of the southwest region of the great success of the Lantern Festival, Zigong Lantern Lantern Lantern mainly includes craft lamps, lamps, lamps and other types of group. Most of the performance of folk traditions, classical masterpieces, myths and stories and other subject content, with large-scale, group, linkage characteristics. From 1964 to the Spring Festival of 2020, Zigong has held 33 lantern festivals.

The lantern festival is a folk cultural activity with historical tradition. As early as the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, lanterns were recorded in writing. Later, it developed into an essential annual event for people to send their ideals and pray for a good year. "The son of heaven and the people with the same music" refers to the ancient lantern festival scene.