Zhangjiajie Lantern Festival Culture
 2016-12-20 16:49:31   Zhangjiajie Tourism Information Website  

Chinese Lantern Festival which is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first calendar month in Chinese lunar calendar. Not the Mid-Autumn Festival, sometimes confused with the so-called Lantern Festival in places like Singapore, Malaysia. During the Lantern Festival , the children go to carry lanterns in temples at night. Officially ends Chinese New Year.

Lantern Festival culture is considered the marvellous spectacle among Chinese national cultures. Lantern sightseeing and enjoying lantern shows, which suits both refined and popular tastes and appeal both the old and the young, is one of important traditional customs and cultural activities among people in our country. China lantern, Famous in ancient and modern times and enjoying high reputation, collects varieties of Chinese cultural demeanour and brings human beings splendid lantern art. Since Tang Dynasty, the custom of Lightening lanterns in New Year has existed. In Qing Dynasty, “Lion Lantern Market”and “Lantern Pole Festival” came into being. In early twentith century, Holding Lantern Festival initiated into performance. What’s more afterwards were Setting off Heavenly Lanterns, Performing Dragon Lanterns, Playing with Lion Lanterns and Festive Lantern Show.

Chinese Lantern culture is considered the marvellous spectacle among Chinese national cultures. Lantern sightseeing and enjoying lantern shows, which suits both refined and popular tastes and appeal both the old and the young, is one of important traditional customs and cultural activities among people in our country. China lantern, Famous in ancient and modern times and enjoying high reputation, collects varieties of Chinese cultural demeanour and brings human beings splendid lantern art. Since Tang Dynasty, the custom of Lightening lanterns in New Year has existed. In Qing Dynasty, “Lion Lantern Market”and “Lantern Pole Festival” came into being. In early twentith century, Holding Lantern Festival initiat After the founding of new China, lantern art got rapid development. On the bases of appreciation of the beautiful that carries forwards traditional lantern making skills, modern light and electric technology has been introduced and other artistic types have also been incorporated. Lantern shows combine sound, color, movement and modelling together and merge sightseeing with enjoyment and knowledge, paved a way of ultilizing culture to promote trade and combination of culture with trade, which has gained the concern, support and affirmation from the leaders of the CPC and the State. Lantern shows in new era feature high cultural tastes, varieties of best lanterns, unique artistic characteristics and grand light view. Lantern-shaped hills and light ocean, piled-up jade and gold colors form a light flowing and color spilling picture. Singing birds, swimming dragons and dancing phoenixes enrich grand guardens made up of lanterns. To stroll along lantern varandas and under lantern pavillions seems as if walking in a dream-like world, which reminds you of the words “ tonight is worth recalling in each year ”.ed into performance. What’s more afterwards were Setting off Heavenly Lanterns, Performing Dragon Lanterns, Playing with Lion Lanterns and Festival Lantern Show.

China lantern festival has boundless momentum, exquisit lantern sets, elegant artistic skills and strong local flavor. The unique style unfolds its endless charm. It has obtained good reputation at home and abroad and attracted crowds of tourists. The reform and opening up to the outside world promote China lantern culture development forward to a new stage. Since 1990s, lantern festival has played the role of cultural envoy of Chinese nationality and has been to foreign countries for display. Ten times of display took place early or late in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, which spread the unique glamor of China lantern to overseas parts. Nowadays when China is undertaking its continued reform, large sized China folk lantern shows will take an important effect in the construction of a harmonious sociaty. Holding grand lantern shows in piping times of peace will happen before the natives. Large sized China folk lantern shows will be utilized as an important tool of external cultural publicity to develop more cultural markets and push Chinese among-people’s folk culture towards the rest parts of the world, which enables it come true for people around the world have face to face communications with China lantern festival.The domestic and foreign displays of China lantern shows will build a large commercial commercial stage for domestic and foreign enterprises and companies, which would construct connections among domestic and international enterprises and individuals and be helpful to the publicity of companies’ images, products and businesses.