Park Expo Lantern Festival
The entire lantern will be composed of nearly one hundred groups of large boutique lamps as well as hundreds of millions of lamp beads, which are divided into the "national chronicle", "dazzling beautiful Beijing", "parent-child fun", "happy", "happy", "happy", and "happy".
Modern high-tech sound, light and electricity technologies are applied to the traditional lanterns to increase the dynamism of the lanterns. The large-area light strips and environmental lights will be used to create the atmosphere, the classic lights will be used to increase the ornamental properties, the scenario lights will be used to regulate the visual rhythm, and the whole process of the lantern festival will be set up in the way of zoning and stringing to form a rhythm that is easy to put on and put off, and has a good rhythm of opening and closing. And at the same time, using Chinese folk culture elements, presenting a brilliant visual feast.
Garden Expo Lantern Festival
Lighting time: January 29, 2017 - February 17, 2017
Ticket information: 100 yuan (free for children under 1.2 meters)
Activity address: Gate 3 of the Garden Expo, No. 15, Firing Range Road
Parking recommendation: parking lot in the garden
Blue Harbor Light Festival
This year's Light Festival invites artists for the first time to create works on the theme of "Light - Source",**** with "art" to light up the city's dark night. Lights, music and inspiration will be the night of the Blue Harbor dress up like a fairy tale world, become a bright landscape of Beijing in winter.
The light art created by the six top masters and their understanding of "light" is displayed in front of the public through art works, helping the public to rethink their own city and space, explore the value of the source of life, and illuminate the entire Blue Harbor while giving the city of Beijing more creativity and imagination. It will illuminate the entire Blue Harbor and give the city of Beijing more creativity and imagination at the same time.
Blue Harbor Lighting Festival
Lighting Time: December 09, 2016 - February 28, 2017
Ticket Information: Free
Address of the Event: No. 6 Chaoyang Park Road
Parking Recommendation: parking lot of the Blue Harbor International Business District
Shichahai Lake Island Ice Lantern Carnival
Shichahai Ice Lantern Carnival for the first time will be the art of ice sculpture on the lake island, the works around the lake island week, so that visitors from all angles can enjoy the ice lanterns of crystal clear and colorful.
These include not only the spectacular Great Wall of Ice, different forms of the Chinese Zodiac, the tall and magnificent ice castle, the mighty two dragons playing beads, there are many children very much like each naive cartoon image.
Lighting time: before and after the Lantern Festival
Ticket information: 58 yuan / person, group purchase price of 48 yuan / person, family ticket: 108 yuan
Activity address: Beijing Xicheng District, before the South China Sea along the neighborhood of A3
Parking recommended: the north of the parking lot along the Houhai
Longqingxia Ice Lantern Festival
This is the first ice lantern art festival after the success of the Beijing Winter Olympics bid. The first ice lantern festival, all the ice lantern works are centered on the Winter Olympics elements, showing that Yanqing, where the event is held, is ready to welcome the Winter Olympics**.
Compared with previous years, this year's festival is richer in content, with 350 groups of lanterns, 2,000 tree lanterns, 350 ice lanterns, 200 ice sculptures, 100 snow sculptures, and the 10,000-meter Great Wall lanterns that encircle the mountains, dressing Longqing Gorge in a magical world of dreams and fantasies.
Lighting time: January 15, 2017 - early March 2017
Ticket price: 100 yuan per person (free for children under 1.2 meters, half-price for seniors over 60)
Activity address: north of Gucheng Village, Old County Town, Yanqing County, at the mouth of the Gucheng River
Parking recommendation: park wherever you want to park
Daxing Moon Festival Theme Park First New Year's Lantern Festival
The entire light show throughout the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Valentine's Day up to 60 days, hundreds of groups of various types of lanterns blossomed ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ lights, music and inspiration will be dressed up at night in the Moon Festival Theme Park as a fairy tale world, a bright landscape in Beijing in the winter. Lantern viewing, folkloric performances, praying for good luck and good fortune, and flower viewing ...... are guaranteed to delight you
Event time: December 23, 2016 to February 18, 2017
Activity address: Daxing World Moon Festival Theme Park
In addition to this
there are a number of other places where lantern fairs have been held in previous years
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People can also look forward to
Hongluo Temple to pray for blessings and good luck ornamental lanterns
Lantern Festival want to pray for blessings and good luck ornamental lanterns of the small partners, the suburb of Beijing's millennium old temple of the Hongluo Temple is undoubtedly a good choice. 16 kinds of nearly 4,000 festive lanterns are all by the scenic area of the independent design and plus In addition to enjoying the lanterns, casting coins and bumping auspicious bells are also very good activities.
When the plum blossoms are in full bloom, you can enjoy the beauty of the plum blossoms at the same time as the lanterns, and enjoy the lanterns and the plum blossoms, which is very comfortable. You can also take a stroll in the mountains and enjoy the embrace of spring in your spare time.
Hongluo Temple to pray for blessings and enjoy the palace lanterns
Lighting time: before and after the Lantern Festival
Ticket price: 54 yuan/person (free for children under 1.2 meters, half-price for seniors over 60 years old)
Activity address: Huairou District, Yanqi Township, under the Hongluo Mountain
Parking recommendations: parking lot in the temple
Sanlitun Fashion Lantern Fair
Taking "fashion" as the theme, combining the East and the West, combining traditional culture with the display of colored lanterns through scientific and technological means, allowing visitors to see a new way of displaying traditional culture, and at the same time combining the leisure and entertainment activities in the surrounding neighborhoods, creating a fashionable and relaxing Lantern Festival recreational space for visitors.
Sanlitun Fashion Lantern Festival
Activity time: before and after the Lantern Festival
Ticket price: Free
Activity address: Sanlitun North Road East, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Parking recommendation: Yaxiu Market parking lot
※Note: The above information is collected and compiled for the network, the specific details of the organizer's official release and on-site arrangement!
Customs around the **:
1. Lantern Festival to eat "Lantern Festival"
The 15th of the first month to eat Lantern Festival, is in China since a long time **common, Lantern Festival that is, "dumplings", it is the practice of ingredients The flavor is different, but the significance of eating the Lantern Festival is the same. On behalf of the reunion and beautiful, the more the days are red hot. As the saying goes, "Harmony breeds wealth". Family harmony and family reunion is such an important factor for a complete family. Therefore, in the Lantern Festival, you must eat "Lantern" with your family.
2. Lantern Festival "send lanterns"
"Send lanterns" is short for "send lamps", the essence of the meaning is to send children lamps. That is, before the Lantern Festival, the mother's family to send lanterns to the newly married daughter's home, or general friends and relatives to give the newly married sterile home, in order to add Ding auspicious omen, because the "lights" and "Ding" harmonized. Expresses the hope that the daughter after marriage, high star, early birth Linzi; such as the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the large lanterns, but also to send one or two pairs of small lanterns, wishing the daughter a safe pregnancy.
3. Lantern Festival Dragon Lantern
Dragon is the totem of China, the Chinese people revere the dragon, the dragon as a symbol of good luck. The Dragon Lantern Dance on the 15th day of the first lunar month, with songs and dances in a joyful atmosphere, has been passed down in many places.
4. Lantern Festival Lion Dance
Lion dance, also known as "lion dance", "lion lamp", "lion dance", more in the New Year's festivals and festive events. The lion is a precious animal in the minds of the Chinese, symbolizing good fortune and luck, and thus the lion dance activity puts forward the people's good will to eliminate disasters and seek good fortune and good fortune.
5. Lantern Festival riddles
Every Lantern Festival, all places are playing lantern riddles, hoping that this year will be joyful and peaceful. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and interest, so the process of circulation is popular among all social classes. In the Tang and Song dynasties, various kinds of juggling skills began to appear in the lantern market. Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to the lantern market riddles and a hundred opera song and dance, and added the content of the opera performance.
6. Lantern Festival on stilts
Stilts will generally be organized by the masses of spontaneous string. The first month of the eleventh and twelfth began to step on the street, meaning to inform people in the many folkloric flower show, this year, hang a number. The first month of the fifteenth officially on the street, until the end of the eighteenth party.
7. Lantern Festival sacrifice door, household
Anciently, there are "seven sacrifices", which are two of them. They were performed by sticking a branch of a poplar tree above a gateway, inserting a pair of chopsticks in a bowl of bean porridge, or placing wine and meat directly in front of the door.
8. The Lantern Festival Walking for a Hundred Diseases
"Walking for a Hundred Diseases", also known as swimming for a hundred diseases, dispersing a hundred diseases, roasting a hundred diseases, walking on a bridge, etc., is a kind of activity for eliminating disasters and praying for health. The night of the Lantern Festival, women meet to travel, traveling in pairs, see the bridge must be crossed, that can get rid of diseases and prolong life.
9. Welcome Purple Nun
Purple Nun, also known as Chi Nun, the north more known as toilet Nun, pit three Nun. Ancient folk ** common on the 15th of the first month to meet the toilet God Zigu and sacrifices, divination sericulture, and accounted for all things. Every day to meet the purple nun this night, people with straw, cloth and other tie into a real ** ** small purple nun portrait, and at night in the pigsty between the toilet to meet and sacrifice. A true reflection of the toiling public kind, loyal, sympathetic to the weak ideological feelings.
10. rat
Rat by rat in the first month of the lunar calendar held on the fifteenth. Silkworm families in the first month of the fifteenth boiled on a big pot of sticky porridge, some also covered with a layer of meat on the top, the porridge with a bowl, put the porridge into the rat-infested roofs, corners, and the side of the mouth while chanting, cursing the rats to eat silkworms again on the baby shall not die well. Legend has it that if you do this, the rats won't eat the silkworms this year.