CCTV News
(News Broadcast): During the Spring Festival, the land of China is festive and peaceful. People are having a good time and feeling the happiness and vitality of the Chinese New Year in the colorful activities.
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, people visit temple fairs, watch exhibitions, and celebrate the festival in colorful ways. Today (February 11), the Temple of Earth Temple Fair in Beijing welcomed over 130,000 visitors on the first day of its opening. Time-honored brands have introduced new cultural and creative products and various products with a sense of Internet expression, highlighting the theme of traditional culture. At the same time, rich and diverse The folklore performances also brought joy to the scene.
During the Spring Festival holiday, people can go to the temple fair in Wuhan Garden Expo Park and visit the Year of the Dragon intangible cultural heritage collection in Langfang, Hebei Province. People can feel the beauty of intangible cultural heritage and experience traditional culture in the New Year flavor. At the cultural bazaar of the Gansu Provincial Museum, citizens and tourists lingered in front of various intangible cultural heritage displays such as carvings and paper-cutting. Many tourists also tried their hands on them to experience the fun of making intangible cultural heritage handicrafts.
In Ganzhou, Jiangxi, villagers gathered together for a reunion dinner and exchanged New Year greetings. On the cruise ship in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, take a family photo and leave a warm memory of reunion. Many tourists who travel to Xinjiang also come to Urumqi’s Grand Bazaar to celebrate the New Year and experience the different charm of the New Year. On the island in Sanya, Hainan, watching the sea and playing in the water allow tourists to have an experience of celebrating the New Year in a different place and looking for a different New Year's flavor. In Puning, Guangdong, the vigorous and powerful English songs and dances attract tourists to feast their eyes and experience the unique New Year flavor of Chaoshan.
In the New Year of the Dragon, dragon and lion dances are the mainstay of Spring Festival folk activities in various places. In Bishan, Chongqing and other places, accompanied by the sonorous sound of gongs and drums, the dragon and lion dances started with passion, and each move was full of momentum, power and power. In the revitalized town of Changzhi, Shanxi, dragon and lion teams roaming the ancient streets add a lively and festive atmosphere to the New Year in the Year of the Dragon. In Yancheng, Jiangsu, the folk street parade in Yandu District is very lively, and the wonderful dragon dance performance on Riyue Island in Sheyang attracts many tourists. In the ancient city of Shouzhou, Anhui, the traditional Spring Festival ceremony allows tourists to pray for blessings and good fortune to celebrate the New Year. In Yucun, Anji, Zhejiang, an intangible cultural heritage street performance brought out the joy in the hearts of the villagers. In Baoshan, Yunnan, a dragon dance team parades around the streets. This 200-meter-long dragon is majestic and majestic, adding joy to the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon.
The night of the New Year in the Year of the Dragon is full of lights, lighting up the happy "Chinese Year". In Zheng'an, Guizhou, tourists visit gardens to enjoy the lanterns to celebrate the New Year. The rural light show in Jiaozuo, Henan and the creative light scene in Dazhou, Sichuan, with the theme of "dragon" elements, are dizzying. The large colored lantern faucets in the West Coast New District of Qingdao, Shandong Province are powerful, vivid and vivid, symbolizing the prosperity of our country in the Year of the Dragon. On the night of New Year's Day, the 2024 Cross-Strait Fireworks Show was held simultaneously in Xiamen and Kinmen. Fireworks with the theme of "Dragon Blessing the Cross-Strait" lit up the night sky, sending prosperous blessings to compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
On the evening of the 10th, the Hong Kong New Year float parade was held at the Hong Kong Cultural Center Plaza. The participating floats had the theme of "dragon", which means "the dragon leaps over Hong Kong" and shows the joy and vitality of the Year of the Dragon.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, in front of the A-Ma Temple in Macau, gongs and drums were beating loudly, golden dragons were dancing, and lions were dancing. A large number of citizens and tourists stopped to watch, making the scene very lively.