The 2023 Suzhou Lantern Festival will be held in Guxumen Square.
In Guxumen Square, the large-scale lantern combination scenery "Jade Rabbit Welcomes the Spring" and "Rabbit in front of the Brocade" attracted the attention of many tourists. As the center of the entire lantern festival in Guxumen Square, the "Starlight Corridor" becomes a popular spot during the Lantern Festival.
During the Lantern Festival, Guxumen Square also held the "Canalside Intangible Cultural Heritage" market, which brought together 18 merchants of various intangible cultural heritage, special cultural and creative products, and time-honored food, using original nucleic acid The testing booth creates a composite “capsule” intangible cultural heritage display space. During the event, citizens and tourists will also see performances such as dragon dances and street performers.
Introduction to the Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" "xiao". The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full-moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Three Yuan" theory, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival". The Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times.
The Lantern Festival is one of China's traditional festivals. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, eating Yuanxiao, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals also include traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern parade, lion dance, stilt walking, land boat rowing, Yangko dancing, and Taiping drum playing.