Zigong, Sichuan: The 31st Zigong International Lantern Festival opens in the new year

The 31st Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival is themed "Lanterns Celebrate China, a Thousand Weathers". It will use 12 extra-large lantern groups, 7 large lantern groups, and more than 200 small and medium-sized lantern groups to tell the myriad weather conditions of China. It will open on the eve of the 2025 Spring Festival. At the scene, you can see a giant gate of 55 meters long inspired by Zigong's "Three Wonders" paper-cutting; a "Five Grains and a Good Harvest" lantern group that combines colored lanterns with glass medicine bottles and porcelain bundles; a 9-meter-high "God of Wealth" that is the largest single unit in the history of the Zigong Lantern Festival; This year's lantern festival is based on the "Legend of the White Snake", one of the four great love legends in Chinese folklore, to create giant "Internet celebrity" lanterns of white snakes and green snakes. The two sisters stand on the left and right, Bai Suzhen is ethereal, chivalrous and tender, while Xiaoqing is lively and mysterious, as if bringing the audience into a legendary world full of fantasy and romance. "All the colorful lanterns in the world come from Gong." The Zigong Lantern Festival began in the Tang and Song dynasties and has a history of thousands of years. Up to now, it has developed by combining extraordinary traditional production skills with modern technology. The lanterns produced are exquisitely crafted, rich in materials, and blended with lights and scenery. In 1964, the first Zigong Spring Lantern Festival was held, which was later changed to the Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival. In 2008, the Zigong Lantern Festival was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Ask AI to write a hymn for Zigong Lantern Festival, "Seven-line Poem·Zigong Lantern Festival" Thousands of lanterns illuminate the salt capital, Fire trees and silver flowers illuminate the night. The dragons dance and the phoenixes fly with dazzling light, the fishes swim and the butterflies play with shadows spreading out. The ingenuity conveys the charm, and the skillful hands carefully draw the brocade picture. Friends from all over the world praised it, Zigong Lantern Festival is like a pearl