The Qinhuai River is brilliantly lit.

The 39th Qinhuai Lantern Festival, a folk cultural event popular in Nanjing, is also known as the Jinling Lantern Festival or the Confucius Temple Lantern Festival. It is one of the first national intangible cultural heritages and enjoys the reputation of being the "best lantern festival in the world." It is also the only large-scale comprehensive lantern festival in China that integrates lantern exhibitions, lantern fairs, and lantern markets. At the same time, it is also the longest-running, most attended, and largest folk lantern festival in China.