The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival with a history of more than 2,000 years. It is the first full-moon night of the new year and the last festival of the Spring Festival. It symbolizes reunion and a new beginning. On the night of the Lantern Festival, people light lanterns, enjoy lanterns, perform dragon dances and guess lantern riddles and other activities, so it is also called the Light Festival. It is the grandest national carnival in ancient China! The Aoyu Lantern Dance is an intangible cultural heritage of China and has a strong military drill style. According to ancient legend, the Dragon King of the East China Sea sent aoyu to rescue the soldiers. Therefore, a grand Aoyu Lantern Dance celebration is held every Spring Festival. The Xinzhuang Lantern Festival is one of the traditional New Year lantern festivals in Shanghai. The theme of the 2024 Xinzhuang Lantern Festival is "Dragon and Horse Spirit", which chooses the starting point of the birth of the dragon - Fuxi. Legend has it that Fuxi took the body of a python, the head of a crocodile, the antlers of a stag, and the head of a tiger. The eyes, the scales of the red carp, the legs of the monitor lizard, the claws of the goshawk, the tail of the white shark, and the baleen of the fin whale created the dragon totem of the Chinese nation, and the image of the dragon came from this. This year's Xinzhuang Lantern Festival also added a laser fountain water curtain show, giving people a new look and feel of brilliance! Qibao Ancient Town is located in the southwest of Shanghai. It is an ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River with a long history and profound cultural heritage. The ancient town was formed in the Song Dynasty and prospered in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has become a historical and cultural ancient town that combines picturesque scenery with cultural heritage. Qibao glutinous rice balls and Qibao mutton are very famous. There are also crab apple cakes, glutinous rice balls and crab roe soup dumplings, grass cakes, tie hoof, salt-baked quail eggs, stinky tofu, and grilled skewers. These are all indispensable delicious snacks. There are various snacks here It has everything you need, it’s simply a paradise for gourmet food. The 2024 Shanghai Yu Garden New Year Folk Lantern Festival will still use "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" as the blueprint, continue to write "The Wonders of Mountains and Seas", and open up a new experience of "The Classic of Seas". Four doors and five scenes create an image of the deep sea and river, presenting the wonderland of the underwater dragon palace where the zodiac dragon lanterns are intertwined with marine animals and plants. There are also shocking scenes such as fish and dragons dancing, leading tourists to uncover the mystery of the stars and the sea.
