China News Service, Wuhan, February 23 (Ma Furong is fresh from Huizi and Zhang Wenjing) Listening to folk songs, appreciating Peking opera, guessing lantern riddles, folding lanterns, watching magic, tasting glutinous rice balls... "Celebrate reunion in the prosperous age of dragons" 2024 Lantern Festival Folk Customs of Han and Taiwan Compatriots It was held in Wuhan on the 23rd. More than 50 Taiwanese compatriots and more than 20 Wuhan citizens gathered together to celebrate the Lantern Festival in advance.

　　In the exhibition hall decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, Shen Songbai, the provincial representative inheritor of Wuhan paper-cutting, introduced that this time he brought paper-cutting techniques such as dragon boat rowing and small group dragons, as well as methods of making lanterns such as palace lanterns with the word "Fu" and red envelope lanterns. Shared by Taiwan compatriots.

On February 23, Shen Songbai explained to Taiwanese compatriots how to make lanterns.

Photo by Zheng Ziyan

　　Under the guidance of Shen Songbai, Jiang Yuling from Miaoli, Taiwan, and her 6-year-old daughter completed the lantern making.

"I spent the Spring Festival in Taiwan, and when I returned to Wuhan, I just caught up with the Lantern Festival activities. It was a complete year," Jiang Yuling said.

　　At the event, two calligraphers used a variety of fonts to write the word "福", as well as blessings such as "safe and healthy" and "become beautiful, slim and cool".

　　27-year-old Chen Guanfu asked a calligrapher to write the character "dragon".

"My mother is a dragon, so I want to give this calligraphy to my mother." Chen Guanfu said.

After graduating from Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Chen Guanfu stayed in Wuhan and engaged in quality education for nearly five years.

　　Li Naiqing, a first-year student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, shuttled back and forth under the lanterns hanging riddles and guessed multiple answers to the riddles.

He also asked a calligrapher to write the word "乐" to pray for "joy and health" in the new year.

This is Li Naiqing's first time to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Wuhan. He said that there are many similar folk activities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and celebrating the festival in Wuhan is equally cordial.

　　The event was jointly sponsored by the Wuhan Memorial Hall of the Former Site of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Wuhan Taiwan-funded Enterprises Association, and the Wuhan Folk Artists Association.

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