China News Service, Beijing, February 24th. February 24th falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Various parts of China celebrate the Lantern Festival, and various intangible cultural heritage and folk activities are in full bloom.

　　That night, in Huxi Village, a thousand-year-old ancient village in Yongfeng County, Jiangxi Province, the "Palace Lantern Festival" that has been passed down from generation to generation for more than 800 years was staged in the drizzle.

In the palace lantern outing team, the elderly, young adults, and children each perform their duties according to their physical strength and needs.

　　According to Luo Qishan, secretary of the Huxi Village branch, the "Palace Lantern Festival" embodies the local value orientation of respecting culture and filial piety, and at the same time can play a role in uniting neighbors.

"In ancient times, there were many scholars here. The 'Palace Lantern Festival' is not only a continuation of the cultural context, but also a memory of the ancestors. With the development of the times, some materials have been improved, and the forms have been constantly standardized and innovated. Everyone works together, To make it lively and peaceful.”

　　In Heishuiquan Village, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the sound of Shouyang drums starts to sound in temples and streets from the fifth day of the first lunar month on the lunar calendar, and even more so during the "Lantern Festival" period from the fourteenth to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

In Heishuiquan Village, the Lantern Festival is extremely festive and lively. In addition to Shouyang drums, there are also traditional performances such as dragon dance, lion dance, pavilion dance, land boat, and royal pole. The villagers actively participate and entertain themselves.

During the Lantern Festival, the Shouyang Drum Troupe performs in Heishuiquan Village, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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　　On the night of the Lantern Festival in Shantou, the hometown of overseas Chinese, the unique "Shantou Small Park International Lantern Festival" held a lighting ceremony.

The characteristic lantern streets and traditional Chinese lanterns in five countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and the United Arab Emirates, bring a visual and cultural feast to citizens and tourists. Ancient style parades and intangible cultural heritage experience activities also make people feel closer to the Lantern Festival. Experience Chinese traditional culture from a distance.

　　Watching winter fishing, guessing lantern riddles, dancing colorful dragons, paddling ice dragon boats, dancing ice and snow disco... Nearly a thousand tourists played in the Arctic Village of Mohe City, Daxinganling, Heilongjiang Province, enjoying the unlimited fun brought by ice and snow. .

That night, people also followed the Yangko team to the Seven Star Square to watch the wonderful artistic performances and fireworks shows, dance wild ice and snow disco around the bonfire, and enjoy the unique festive atmosphere of "North Pole of China".

On February 24, tourists danced in the ice and snow disco at Qixing Square in Beiji Village, Mohe City, the "China Arctic".

Photo by Jiang Hui

　　On the fourteenth night of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, the first Caixiang Cultural Tourism Festival in Putian City, Fujian Province and the 2024 national intangible cultural heritage Fengting Lantern Festival Tour were held in Fengting Town, Xianyou County, Putian City, Fujian Province, attracting many Tourists and photography enthusiasts.

One after another, colorful lanterns and phalanxes parade through the streets of Fengting Town, row after row, in a mighty and mighty way.

In the sound of firecrackers and drums celebrating the New Year, this thousand-year-old town slowly unfolds a gorgeous folk customs picture to tourists at home and abroad.

　　From the 13th to the 17th of the first lunar month, the Fengting Lantern Parade is held in various communities (villages) in the town. Tens of thousands of people perform the lantern parade for 5 consecutive days. It is also accompanied by a display of lantern making skills, a food and beer festival, and a Lantern Festival boutique exhibition. The event was unprecedentedly grand.

Zhang Chunzhi, director of the Xianyou Economic Development Zone Management Committee and secretary of the Fengting Town Party Committee, said that he hopes to attract lantern viewing tourists to "come in" through a series of cultural tourism activities such as the opening of the museum, exhibitions, seminars, lantern appreciation, and food, and promote Cai Xiang Culture “goes out”.

　　In Taijiang County, Guizhou, the birthplace of "Village BA", more than a hundred dragons from various villages gathered in the county seat to dance wildly among the golden boo flowers, performing the annual "Dragon Dance and Boo Flowers" to celebrate the Lantern Festival and continue to pray for the New Year. A tradition of good luck.

In the night, strong young men from various villages held up their dragon bodies and walked flexibly among the festival crowds. People holding boo flower tubes followed the changes of the dragon dance drums and released colorful and dazzling boo flowers, performing a "dragon and fire" performance. "Fight.

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　　(Reporting by Zhang Wei, Ye Qiuyun, Jiang Tao, Wu Pengquan, Li Yiqing, Jiang Hui and Zhou Yanling)