The countdown to 2008 has begun and the new year is about to arrive. The 4th Lishui Qinhuai River Source Lantern Festival in 2021 will be held on January 1, 2021, and the lantern festival will be from January 1 to March 31, 2021. Full of flavor, it not only enriches the customs and culture of the New Year, but also brings a Lantern Festival feast to Lishui citizens in the new year.
2021 Nanjing Lishui Lantern Festival
Lighting time: January 1, 2021
Lantern Festival time: January 1 - March 31, 2021
Tickets: Free
The specific address of the lantern group: Sanyuan (Pagoda Park, Zhuangyuanfang Park), Lianghe (Nanmen River from Yongchang Bridge to Xiaoximen Bridge, Moat Gate to North Menqiao), Seventh Line (Baota Road, Zhongda Street, Jiaotong West Road, Daximen Street, Xiaoximen Street, Honghua Lane Road, Xitan Road), Third Node (Lishui East Express Entrance and Exit, Development Zone Express Entrance and Exit, Tianshengqiao).
The 2021 Lishui Lantern Festival is divided into four major sections: Thousands of Lights, Happy Lishui, Gorgeous City, Eastern Guangdong Lishui, Tang Style and Ancient Rhythm, Thousand Years of Dreams, Deep Roots and Lush Leaves, and Smart Creation of Lishui.
Number of lantern groups
There are approximately 86 lantern groups for this year’s Lantern Festival. Compared with the previous two editions, the 2021 Lantern Festival has added many new highlights, made new breakthroughs, and has a wider exhibition scope. The lantern group highlights the cultural stories of the source of Qinhuai, the four famous cities of Lishui, and the six demonstration areas, further enhancing tourists' experience of watching lanterns. The lantern festival group highlights the storytelling and continuity, creates an immersive experience throughout the city, greatly increases the experience and artistic sense of the lantern festival, and brings wonderful enjoyment and a strong New Year atmosphere to tourists and citizens. While enriching traditional culture, It brought a New Year Lantern Festival feast to the citizens of Lishui.
Recommended lantern viewing
Two new special lighting areas have been established: Wuxiangshui Town, Chengnan New District; Yongshoufang Street.
Two places to check in and see the lights: the flower basket lantern set in Wangjing Square, 14 meters high, will be one of the tallest lantern sets in the city; the koi fish lantern set is located on the bridge on Jiaotong West Road, long 40 meters, it can change into thousands of colors according to the rhythm of the built-in music.
Check-ins with folk customs and the spirit of the times: the "Welcoming the New Year" beside the Yongshou Tower, the "Dragon Soaring Nine Heavens" on the Yongchang Bridge and other lighting groups; the "Most Beautiful Retrograde" lighting group, etc.
After January 30, 2021, the check-in points for Internet celebrities: the National Extreme Sports Center with the concept of "becoming popular before the first show"; watch "Shijiu Lake", which is a popular network, created by "Tianjie" "A place transformed into a "Swan Lake"; enjoy strawberries by lanterns and satisfy your taste buds at the largest strawberry base in the province; tour the countryside with lanterns and go to a number of beautiful villages such as Hongxiang, a national key rural tourism village, to feel the local customs; bring lanterns with you Visit the exhibition and experience "one industry, one agriculture" and "one south, one north", the largest Nanjing Airport International Expo Center in the country, Baima Agricultural International Expo Center, etc.
Highlights of the Li Shui Lantern Festival
First, extend the time and expand the scope of the exhibition.
This Lantern Festival will last for 90 days from January 1 to March 31, 2021. The exhibition scope has been further expanded to include three gardens, two rivers, seven lines and three nodes. Compared with previous Lantern Festivals, it has a larger area and more lanterns.
Second, focus on four major themes and highlight humanistic stories.
The lantern exhibition includes four major theme sections: Thousands of Lanterns, Happy Lishui, Gorgeous Famous City, Eastern Guangdong Lishui, Tang Style and Ancient Rhythm, Dreams of Thousand Years and Roots and Leaves, and Intelligent Lishui. The focus is on Pagoda Park, Zhuangyuanfang Park, City God Temple, Nanmen River, and City Moat. The lantern group highlights the cultural stories of the source of the Qinhuai River, the four famous cities of Lishui and the six demonstration areas.
The lantern group highlights storytelling and continuity, creating an immersive experience in the city. Each node is decorated with a different Lantern Festival theme, especially the humanistic story light group, which requires more delicate carvings and is very vivid in shape, form and movement.
2021 is the Year of the Ox in the lunar calendar. Cows are naturally an indispensable element in lanterns. All kinds of old cowboys are lifelike and extremely cute. Naturally, the image of the big fish that symbolizes the beautiful meaning of "more than a year" will be held
In January 2021, in addition to the colorful Lantern Festival, there will also be a lively New Year's Day street event, which will be held in Yongshoufang Cultural and Commercial Plaza The district kicked off. Getting New Year's goods is a ritual, the inheritance of traditional culture, and everyone's most heartfelt memory of the New Year.
By then, fresh food, specialty foods, cultural and creative products, Spring Festival couplets, calligraphy and paintings and other New Year goods will be available. Citizens can search for the flavor of the New Year, watch lanterns and enjoy folk customs at the source of the Qinhuai River, while buying famous and high-quality products from all over the country.
Event Arrangement
1. Lighting Ceremony
Performance Time: January 1, 2021, 17:30-19:30
Locations and activities:
(1) Pagoda Park North Square (Golden Dome Gate): shrimp lanterns;
(2) Pagoda Park South Square: drums and gongs and dragon boat rowing;
(3) Zhuangyuanfang Park: Qianqian Lantern, Wei Qing Lantern;
(4) Yongshou Square: Shehuo, Shahe Lion Dance, Wudang Tai Chi Legend;
(5 ) Tongji Street: Baishi Guan Lantern, Dongping Dragon Boat, Wudang Tai Chi.
2. New Year Concert
The Lishui Lantern Festival New Year Concert will be held at the same time as the Lantern Festival. The New Year Concert will welcome the New Year with you and open up new hopes.
3. The New Year has passed at the source of the Qinhuai River.
Every weekend from now until the Spring Festival, there will be traditional folk performances in Lishui, live performances by inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, such as "Jumping Marquee Lantern", "Playing Society Fire", "Shahe Lion Dance" and so on. There are a number of excellent local traditional cultural programs, as well as national intangible projects such as the Luoshan Dragon Parade and so on. In addition, the farmhouse is also full of exciting activities such as boiling oil, making old tofu, butchering pigs, roasting whole sheep, and pickling bacon, etc., which will bring tourists a rich festival cultural feast.