Xinyang Lantern Festival Lantern Festival places are as follows:
Guangshan County in the town of white bird garden held "the first traditional culture - send Lantern Festival and dragon and lion dance repertoire" activities, the activities of the scene, 100,000 people came out of their nests, drums and gongs, a sea of people, sixteen dragons in the sea of people weaving through a full of spirit, wearing festive costumes, a dragon dance team members hands held up the pole will be more than 30 meters long dragon dance. A full of spirit, dressed in festive attire of the dragon dance team members with their hands held up the dragon dance pole, will be more than 30 meters long dragon dance.
The new county held a grand "folk culture in the New Year - joyfully celebrate the Lantern Festival" series of mass cultural activities. Dragon dance, lion dance, rowing a dry boat, picking flowers, sedan chair, lanterns, gongs and drums, three wall blowing music, square dance, waist drumming, trailing dance and so on.
Pingqiao District, Xinyang City, "our festival - Lantern Festival series of thematic arts and cultural activities" in Pingqiao District Xiaoqiao Hutong. The hutong was decorated with lanterns and colorful lights, and was filled with a strong flavor of the New Year.
Xinyang City, Yangshan New District, "Yangshan Li-Yunlong Lake Scene on the Lantern Festival" as promised, thousands of lamps are bright, colorful, touring the garden of the public in an endless stream of Chinese costume enthusiasts carrying lanterns, dragging the exquisite dress to take pictures of this place to play cards, coquettishly smiling. At the scene of the event, there were many activities such as Chinese dress touring, lantern watching, river lantern releasing and lantern riddle guessing.
Lantern Viewing
Lantern Viewing is an ancient Chinese folk culture, usually held on the Lantern Festival, and is literally understood as the viewing of lanterns. The Eastern Han Dynasty Shun Di, Pei State Fengren Zhang Daoling in Sichuan Heming Mountain to create a "five-doumei Road" and held a "lamp sacrifice bucket" ceremony, to be counted so far to understand the oldest primitive Lantern Festival. During the Southern Dynasty, the national capital of Jiankang (now Nanjing) appeared the custom of organizing the traditional Lantern Festival of the Lantern Festival, whose grandeur was the highest in the country. The Lantern Festival began in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and reached its peak during the Ming Dynasty.
The Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of Lights", the most important activity on this day is to enjoy the lanterns, lanterns, also known as the Lantern Festival, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. In ancient times, people every first month of the fifteenth, will handmade exquisite and unique lanterns, hanging in front of their homes. On the night of the fifteenth, the colorful lanterns, and the bright moon in the sky, *** with the composition of a beautiful scene. On this day, people will display a variety of lanterns on the streets after dark, and people have to go out on the streets to see the lanterns and feel the lively atmosphere.