Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, February 6th, title: Fire tree and silver flower Lantern Festival "blooms" and shines in the night sky of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
Author Wang Jian Wang Zijie
In the night sky of Nansha, Guangzhou during the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, firework salutes flew towards the sky with sparks, and the night sky shone brightly in an instant, and the colorful fireworks bloomed to their heart's content, turning into star rain like a waterfall... At 20 o'clock on the same day, In 2023, Guangzhou Nansha celebrated the Lantern Festival fireworks show and drone flight show. 68,888 fireworks and guns gathered and bloomed, and 1,000 drones flew into the sky to paint on the night and extend Lantern Festival blessings to the public.
The theme of this fireworks show is "Jade Rabbit Presents Lucky Lantern Festival, Fire Trees and Silver Flowers Shine in the Bay Area". The lively roar in the night sky is not only a festival celebration, but also presents the unique Chinese Lantern Festival to the public in a modern and traditional way. holiday romance.
Photo courtesy of the Nansha District Government at the 2023 Lantern Festival Celebration Fireworks Gala and Drone Flight Show in Nansha, Guangzhou
The whole performance consists of two parts, the first is the drone performance.
A formation of 1,000 drones lined up neatly over the tip of Lingshan Island, with the full moon and starry sky as the cloth, and the bright lights as the brush, painted the eight characters "Lingnan Spring Morning, Pearl River surges".
"Mo Daojun travels early, and people who travel early" "Treasure the spring time, never wait for fantasy"... Words spread out in the night sky, reflecting the good momentum of Lingnan's forging ahead and striving for the top.
"Walk in the forefront of the country and create new brilliance" "Although the road is long, the journey will come; High-quality development" "serve the overall situation, respond to changes, and create a new situation"... The drones form a scene of text, which is exactly the blueprint for progress drawn by the province's high-quality development conference, encouraging people to "transform the construction drawings in their hands into the earth's Realistic painting".
Afterwards, images of buildings in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area composed of drones, Kapok—the city flower of Guangzhou, Nansha Pearl Bay Bridge, and the Nansha city image logo flashed in the sky, making people turn their attention to Nansha, a land of opportunities.
In the end, the drone slowly transformed into a cute rabbit pattern—Jade Rabbit Xianrui, wishing people to move like a rabbit, leap forward, and compete in a romantic way in the new year.
Immediately following the drone show was the highly anticipated fireworks show, which was divided into "Jade Rabbit Presents Fortune, Guotai Minan's Happy New Year", "Flower City Welcomes Spring, All Businesses Are Prosperous", "Based on the Bay Area, Building a New Dream in a Happy Yangcheng", "Cooperating with Hong Kong and Macau , New Binhai New City Meteorology" and "Facing the World, Opening the Door to New Vitality" five chapters unfolded, 68,888 fireworks and salutes gathered and bloomed, turning into star rain like a waterfall.
Photo courtesy of the Nansha District Government at the 2023 Lantern Festival Celebration Fireworks Gala and Drone Flight Show in Nansha, Guangzhou
Some of the audience cheered, some made wishes, some picked up their mobile phones to record the pictures, and some made video calls to share this exciting moment with relatives and friends.
Mr. Li, a citizen of Nansha, said that the fireworks show carried forward the traditional Chinese New Year and traditional culture.
The fiery tree blows the clouds and the red phoenix flies, and the beautiful flowers fall to the ground.
Thousands of fireworks send the most sincere New Year blessings to the citizens.
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