China News Service, Quanzhou, February 5th (Wu Guanbiao Zeng Fuzhi) In Quanzhou, Fujian Province, a thousand-year-old city, the Lantern Festival is known as "Shangyuan Xiaoniandou". Compared with the Spring Festival, it is as lively as the Spring Festival.

During the Lantern Festival, lanterns can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of the ancient city of Quanzhou. The surging crowds of people seem to reproduce the grand lantern festival in the middle of Fujian in ancient times. The unique lanterns light up this "City of Light" again.

　　This year, Quanzhou urban area arranged lanterns in a multi-point scattered form. All kinds of lanterns competed for splendor, which not only showed the ingenuity of generations of lantern craftsmen, but also entrusted the romantic feelings of Quanzhou people, allowing countless citizens and tourists to walk out of their houses. Open the door, step into the street, and watch the lights.

　　Walking into Huaxiang, an ancient street in Quanzhou, a giant revolving lantern comes into view.

This 7.5-meter-tall revolving lantern "long" above the attic. Quanzhou craftsmen were invited to use unique craftsmanship to present a hollowed-out flower frame, faucet-shaped tassels, and exquisite Quanzhou LED light patterns. The brilliance attracted many passers-by. Standing under the lamp to take a group photo.

　　Walking through Flower Lane into the West Street Vegetable Market, a "big taillight dragon" made many children scream with joy.

The "Big Tail Light Dragon" hovers in mid-air. Its body is made up of 240 discarded lanterns, and its tail is an abandoned fishing net by the sea.

All kinds of traditional lanterns are hung in the streets and alleys of the ancient city of Quanzhou.

Photo courtesy of Quanzhou Culture and Tourism Bureau

　　"I don't know much about young people's art, but I like this dragon very much. It retains the flavor of our old Quanzhou and has the meaning of striving for progress." Said Lin Sheng, a citizen who brought his grandson to see "Dragon".

　　Ancient Chinese costumes, old alleys and new streets, rabbit lanterns... During the "Shangyuan Citong Dream Hualu" held in Quanzhou City-Shangyuan Lantern Activities, dozens of men, women and children dressed in ancient costumes carried traditional Quanzhou rabbit lanterns , starting from Quanzhou Tianhou Palace, walk through the arcades to enjoy the lanterns, walk through the streets and alleys to view the intangible cultural heritage, and experience an immersive art feast of time and space, recreating the lively scene of the ancient Lantern Festival.

　　Girls in Hanfu with fluttering skirts are in groups of three or four, holding the hands of children, strolling under the lanterns on Zhongshan Road in Quanzhou, enjoying the lanterns and taking pictures, or stopping in front of Nanyin Pavilion to listen silently, or talking to the street. Artists join hands and have fun together, and taste the sweet rabbit-shaped sugar painting...

Men, women and children dressed in Hanfu walked around the ancient city with traditional Quanzhou rabbit lanterns.

Photo courtesy of Quanzhou Culture and Tourism Bureau

　　"This scene is so beautiful." Xiao Zhou, a college student who also came to appreciate the lanterns, said that it was his first time to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Quanzhou. "I am very much looking forward to the grand occasion of the Lantern Festival in Quanzhou."

　　In addition, the "Zhizhi" installation lantern exhibition in the shape of Master Hongyi's calligraphy "Zhizhi" is like the traditional boutique lantern exhibition of "World Heritage Quanzhou Futu Chengxiang" in the Lantern Museum, and the "Children's Creativity" that brings together children's whimsy. Lantern Show" and other lantern shows are also open one by one, playing the prelude to the carnival climax of the Lantern Festival in Quanzhou, allowing this thousand-year-old city to reproduce the prosperous scene of "people in the city and ten continents".

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