Where is Hangzhou Lantern Festival 2023?

There is a lantern festival in Tianshui Street, Gongshu.

From the 13th to 15th of the first month, the Qiantang Lantern Festival takes the street as the main venue, and the communities and surrounding shopping malls as the sub-venues, holding various colorful lantern festival activities. Through the three-dimensional display of centralized lantern festival area, street lanterns and festival activities, a strong atmosphere of Spring Festival Lantern Festival will be created.

Hang red lanterns on the main commercial streets and traffic arteries in the city to create an atmosphere. The "Canal Lantern Festival" was held in the traditional craft workstation (Gongshu Station, Hangzhou), and activities such as characteristic lantern exhibition, lantern riddle of Shangyuan, elegant collection of Chinese music, and rabbit lantern making experience were carried out. 1 lantern centralized display area has been set up at the characteristic points of each street for the residents in the jurisdiction to watch.

Introduction of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, an ancient folk culture in China, generally refers to the large-scale lantern show held by the government around the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, which is often accompanied by some folk activities, which is very traditional and local. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, people in China have the custom of watching lanterns.

Lantern Festival originated in Luoyang, the ancient capital, and began in Han Dynasty, flourished in Tang Dynasty and flourished in Song Dynasty. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was already a large-scale Lantern Festival in Luoyang. At the beginning of the Southern Dynasties, Nanjing held the Lantern Festival, which was the highest in the country at that time. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Zigong gradually formed the custom of burning lanterns in the New Year and decorating lanterns before and after the Lantern Festival.