CCTV News: February 12th is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the annual Lantern Festival is coming again. It is the end of the Spring Festival, but it is a lively and romantic opening. Cook a pot of hot dumplings and taste the taste of reunion. The black sesame seeds roll out of wealth and peace every year; the streets and alleys are bright, like stars embellishing the world; you are enjoying the lanterns, I am guessing riddles, thinking about the wisdom between the lines, laughing and celebrating the good times, and intoxicated by family and friendship; having the Lantern Festival, you also have to watch the dragon dance parade lead the trend, prosperous and lively, and I just wish you good luck in the New Year step by step.

Lanterns + Ice and Snow Lanterns + Landscapes Where can I enjoy the lanterns during the Lantern Festival?

Lanterns are an indispensable element of the Lantern Festival. Where can I enjoy the Lantern Festival this year?

In Beiguo Ice City, many places combine ice and snow landscapes and lantern elements to create a unique experience of "ice and snow + lantern festival". The New Year Ice and Snow Lantern Festival in Changying Century City, Jilin cleverly integrates traditional lanterns with ice and snow and intangible cultural heritage, bringing a unique and charming light and shadow feast to citizens and tourists.

In the water town of Jiangnan, represented by the Nanjing Qinhuai Lantern Festival, lanterns are combined with landscapes to bring a poetic experience. This year's Lantern Festival Qinhuai Lantern Festival will continue to be lit. Focusing on the core scenic spot of Confucius Temple, Laomen East District, and Bailuzhou Park, a total of 5 exhibition areas and 352 groups of lanterns are set up.

In Kunming, Yunnan, the Grand View Building on the shore of Dianchi Lake was lit up by a bright lantern. Among the nearly 70 light groups, there are landscape paintings, butterflies dancing to welcome the spring, Dunhuang flying sky, mushrooms, and Yi girl Ashima, creating a colorful feast of light and shadow for citizens and tourists.

The Chengdu International Panda Lantern Festival held in Jiangtan Park, Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, Sichuan, you can take a boat to watch the Lantern Festival. This Lantern Festival has incorporated elements such as poetry culture, four seasons of scenery, Chengdu allusions, and other elements, creating Jincheng New Street where "the lights are in the city, and the city is in the lamp", and also used light and shadow flowers to reproduce the grand scene of "flowers are heavy in Jinguan City".

In Nansha, Guangzhou, the first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Lantern Festival is lit up brightly. The Greater Bay Area Lantern Festival carefully created 218 groups of lantern scenes, and more than 10,000 colorful lanterns decorated the night sky of the Greater Bay Area with a stream of brilliance. The creative light group is rich in Chinese flavor, Lingnan style and international style, showing the cultural charm of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in all aspects.

The lantern viewing index map is released. Most of the north have "moon accompanied lights"

How is the weather in various places when you enjoy the lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month? Let’s take a look at the latest lantern appreciation map released by China Weather Network. It can be seen that on the Lantern Festival, the "moon accompanied by lights" has the widest range. In most areas in the north, people can also enjoy the charming moonlight while enjoying the lanterns. Most of the south have a lot of cloud cover, and rainfall may occur in some areas. In the Jianghuai area, the scene of "cloud accompanying lights" will appear in Jiangsu, Hubei, Anhui and other places, and the lights will be brighter than the moon. Most parts of Jiangnan and South China will be covered by rain and rain, and "rain is on the lights". At the same time, due to the low temperature, snowflakes will fall in eastern Tibet and the western Sichuan Plateau, and "snow lights" will appear.

Ningbo, Zhejiang: Fish lantern parades with Lantern Festival, praying for blessings and peace in the New Year

In the famous work "Qingyu Case·Yuanxi" by the great poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, Xin Qiji, describes the Lantern Festival, there is a famous line: "The sound of the phoenix flute moves, the light of the jade pot turns, and the fish and dragon dance overnight." The ichthyosaurs mentioned here are fish lantern performances that are popular in many areas in southern my country. On the banks of Ninghai Bay in Ningbo, Zhejiang, the fish lantern parade around the Lantern Festival has been passed down for hundreds of years and is a unique folk custom in the local fishing villages. On February 9, the annual fish lantern parade kicked off in Xiashan Village, Qiangjiao Town, Ninghai County.

As night fell, under the leadership of the 4-meter-long fish lamp king, the villagers held hundreds of various fish lamps and formed six lantern teams, including "Beast of Begonia" and "Double Dragons Going to the Sea". Along with the beating of gongs and drums, they walked through the streets and alleys of the fishing village to pray for the New Year. Whenever we go to an open area, we will raise the small fish lantern in our hands and dance the special fish lantern dance. At the same time, the local area also organized a fish lantern production experience event, allowing tourists to join the parade with their own fish lanterns to experience the festive and peaceful festive atmosphere together.

Fish lamp parade has a history of hundreds of years in Qiangjiao Town, Ninghai County. Every time around the Lantern Festival, local villagers have to go out to sea to fish. In order to pray for safety in the sea and the full fishing trap, everyone will hold a fish lantern parade starting from the 12th day of the first lunar month. This year, while parading the fish lanterns, the local area also organized various intangible cultural heritage performances such as dragon dance, big drums, and sea iron thunder flowers.