Watching lanterns is a traditional folk custom for Chinese people to celebrate the festival. The colorful lanterns and lifelike lanterns are blessed with extraordinary imagination and exquisite skills, simple materials also flow into bright light. Today, the perfect fusion of unique traditional intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship, new technology and new materials has continuously expanded the boundaries of colorful lanterns, creating a dreamy and wonderful state of "one night fish and dragon dance". And this unique sense of romance and ritual of Chinese people is also going abroad and attracting fans.
In 2024, "Spring Festival - Social Practice for Chinese Celebrating the Traditional New Year" was included in the UNESCO List of Representative Works of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. As a representative project of national intangible cultural heritage, Yuyuan Lantern Festival also traveled across the ocean for the first time and came to France, the hometown of "foreign reporter" Zhehan.
The Yuyuan Lantern Festival goes to sea and is a bright color for the Chinese Lantern Festival to go to the world. Oriental lanterns frequently appear overseas lit up festival seasons around the world, conveying a strong Chinese New Year atmosphere and demonstrating the beauty of the integration of diverse cultures. Through the colorful lanterns filled with oriental aesthetics, the world sees the dazzling and moving China, and also feels the unique charm of the Chinese New Year in a festive atmosphere.
Reporter: Shao Dailin Cui Kexin
Photographed by Sun Dawen
Editor: Cui Kexin Shao Dailin Wang Yanqing
Present: Zhehan (reporter)
Yangyang Daguan Studio Xinhuanet Media Creative Factory Co-produced
Produced by Xinhua News Agency International Department
Creation of thanks Shanghai Yuyuan Tourism Mall (Group) Co., Ltd.
