The Lantern Festival Day is on February 6, 2012. Officially named Lantern Fair on Qinhuai River, it has more than 1,700 years of history and remains the largest lantern festival in the country. About 400,000 lanterns were displayed in six areas: Zhonghua Gate Castle, Ming Dynasty City Wall, Bailuzhou Park, Qinhuai River, Hall of Great Accomplishment, and Lantern Market. The leaders of the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Yang Weize, Mayor Ji Jianye, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress Chen Shaoze, Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Chairman of the CPPCC Shen Jian and other leaders, as well as representatives of citizens, tourists and lantern inheritors attended the opening ceremony. In 2011, there were about 200 large and medium sized lanterns displayed, and about half a million people visited on the main festival night. Now the lantern display has spread out to places such as the 3.5 kilometer-long Ming Dynasty City Wall. Since 1985, the Nanjing municipal government has sponsored a fair and lantern display around the Confucius Temple in Nanjing. It was listed as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of China in 2006. Brilliant lights decorated the 600 year old wall. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Lantern Festival in Nanjing has gradually enjoyed the reputation of “Qinhuai Lantern Festival”, and the famous “Qinhuai River” “lightboat” has also become famous. As early as the Southern Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was held, and its grand occasion was the highest in the country. The 34th China Qinhuai Lantern Festival opened with a lighting ceremony on Friday at the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province. It was illegal during the Cultural Revolution. Running till February 11, it is estimated that the festival will reach its climax on February 8, on the day of the Lantern Festival. NANJING, China, Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Chinese New Year 2020 approaches, the much anticipated 34 th China Qinhuai Lantern Festival hosted by Qinhuai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism is about to take place, presenting the most "technologically advanced" edition of lantern show that integrates culture and technology. Officially named Lantern Fair on Qinhuai River, it has more than 1,700 years of history and remains the largest lantern festival in the country. Lanterns used to be made of cloth. With the invention of paper, Chinese started to make colorful paper lanterns. This means that the official Nanjing Qinhuai International Lantern Festival will probably begin on the Chinese New Year Day which is February 24, 2012. In Nanjing, the Manchus who ruled the Qing Empire made the celebration big and grand with plenty of noise of clanging gongs and beating drums.
The traditions and days of celebrating the Lantern Festival is different in various places in China. Since 1985, the municipal government of Nanjing has made the festival grander and grander and is attempting to make it an international fair like the Harbin International Ice Lantern Festival.
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But they probably were not bright or colorful then. An example of extremely large strange lanterns are the ice lanterns and snow lanterns in January in Harbin that are massive objects several stories high. The Lantern Festival Day is on February 6, 2012. As early as the Southern Dynasty, the Lantern Festival was held, and its grand occasion was The 34th China Qinhuai Lantern Festival opened with a lighting ceremony on Friday at the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province. It is also called the Nanjing Jinling Lantern Festival. The history of the festival is uncertain, but people have been lighting lanterns for spiritual purposes since before paper was invented. Nowadays, as China’s economy keeps prospering and people have more money to construct lanterns, the lanterns are getting bigger and bigger and more interesting. China Highlights can help you customize a tour to see the best of Nanjing.
If you go in 2013 and in the future, you can buy pretty paper lanterns at the Lantern Market and enjoy the festivities. Chinese people like big lighted lanterns that light up the night in a multitude of colors. At 7:40 pm on February 6, the lighting of the 27th Jiangsu Qinhuai Lantern Festival and the launching ceremony of the 2013 Nanjing Cultural Tourism Festival were grandly held in the demonstration area of the south gate of the old city. There was also a light and firework show. The Qinhuai Lantern Festival is a characteristic folk and cultural event spread in Nanjing, also known as the "Jinling Lantern Festival", which is mainly held every year from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival. After the 20th century, the Lantern Festival has further expanded, and Qinhuai’s lantern decoration techniques have been continuously improved, and have promoted the development of folk art such as paper-cutting, Diabolo, knots, carvings, shadow puppets, animal dances, Yangge, and stilts. This means that the official Nanjing Qinhuai International Lantern Festival will probably begin on the Chinese New Year Day which is February 24, 2012.
Copyright © 2018 CGTN. That is the scene described in the The Dream of the Red Chamber. There were even many lanterns on the Qinhuai River and flying in the air for the first time in 2011. Location: Nanjing at the Confucius Temple in Jiangsu Province. The Qinhuai Lantern Festival is a characteristic folk and cultural event spread in Nanjing, also known as the “Jinling Lantern Festival”, which is mainly held every year from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival. Beijing ICP prepared NO.16065310-3, Traditional lantern festival lights up Qinhuai River. That day was called the Lantern Festival. If you go in 2013 and in the future, you can buy pretty paper lanterns at the Lantern Market and enjoy the festivities. Nanjing isn’t cold enough for such frozen lanterns, so they make lanterns of paper and other materials instead. During the late 19th and 20th centuries, the festival wasn't celebrated or it was greatly diminished. It was traditionally held between the Chinese New Year Spring Festival that starts on the first day of the first month of the Chinese lunar Calendar and the 15th day of the first lunar month on the night of the full moon. This Confucius Temple and the lantern festival have been famous in Chinese history. This interesting festival has a long history. The festival at the temple was even mentioned in The Dream of the Red Chamber that was written in the middle of the 1700s and is considered one of China’s Classic Novels.
"A New Year is not a New Year without seeing the … An interactive website was also launched, inviting global online users to participate and light lanterns online.