Some Lantern Festival activities often show in the Lantern Festival

I have writing a post about Lantern Festival activities, it costs me much time to finish it, I need to up my English skill level.

In Chinese Lantern Festival, there are so many folk activities in this Festival not only watching the lantern display, now I’ll introduce most of the Lantern Festival activities often show in the Lantern Festival for you.

1. Giant Lantern Display

As we know that the most important activity is watching the lantern display. I have post many information about it, in this post I’ll not talk too much about it.

Lantern Display

2.Palm fibre weaving

Palm fibre weaving can make many great folk crafts which were made with hemp palm, like the bird, grasshopper and so on, it often exhibitis in the lantern display ground, people will watch the craftsmen’s show, and buy his crafts.

Palm fibre weaving bird

3. A drum-shaped rattle for children

Many people will buy a rattle drum for their children in Lantern Festival, When the seller keeps rocking their drum, the children often ask their mother for this gift.

drum-shaped rattle

4. Embroidery

In the Lantern Festiva facts, I have said the Chinese Lantern Festival is Chinese Valentine’s Day, in the ancient, if a girl is not good at embroidry, she would be thought that she is not a good wife, so even in the recent, this traditional craft is often exhibition in the Lantern Festival, people often buy a animal embroidery of this year for the next year’s auspicious.

Embroidery

5.Dragon and Phoenix Calligraphy

A painting viewed from afar looks like a dragon and phoenix, but nearly see is your name, some folk calligrapher often show their high-level skill in the Lantern Festival, if you paid some money, they will creat a unique Dragon and Phoenix Calligraphy with your name for you, in this year, a disabled person uses his mouth to creat a paining for me.

Dragon and Phoenix Calligraphy

6. Chinese Kungfu show

Chinese Kungfu show also know as the Chinese martial arts, it is originated from Chinese ancient ancestors’ productive labor . It takes skill-hit as the main content and wrestling as the movement form which highlights Chinese traditional sport items. It is a valuable cultural heritage that the Chinese people accumulated for a long time. In the picture, you can see some Shaolin disciplesshow their Kungfu in the Lantern Festival.

Kung fu show

7. Dragon Dance

Dragon is a very important and holy animal for Chinese, the Dragon Dance originated during the Han Dynasty, it is a form of traditional dance and performance in Chinese Lantern Festival. It likes the lion dance which is most often seen in festival celebrations.

dragon dance

8. Lion Dance

Lion dance is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture, in which performers mimic a lion’s movements in a lion costume. The lion dance is often mistaken as dragon dance. An easy way to tell the difference is that a lion is operated by two people, while a dragon needs many people. Also, in a lion dance, the performers’ faces are covered, since they are inside the lion.

lion dance

9.Acrobatics

Chinese acrobatics performance already had a more than 2,500 years’ history in China, it’s as a folk art to display human body skills . It often show with other art like song , dance , Zaju , puppet etc in the Lantern Festival’s arena.

acrobatics

10.Opera Show

Opera Show is originated from primitive songs and dances. Through a long-time development and absorbtion of many factors like folk dance, performance, Kungfu and other art. It forms an artistic expression form of using multiway to express life and build personages. Chinese opera show embodies the unique opera ascetic ideas and artistic features of Chinese nation.

opera show

11.Face Changing Show

Sichuan opera is the operatic-tune art form with Sichuan charateristics. Face changing and spitting fire are the two most common and influential traditional stunts in Sichuan opera performance art. Its basic goal lies in helping to portray personages’ image .

Face Changing show

12.Firecrackers

Lantern Festival is a happy holidays, surely it can not out of firecrackers, especially the celebration of Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival by Chinese communities around the world.

Firecrackers

13. Guessing the Lantern riddles

People in the festival must guess the answer from a word , a poem or a phrase, guessing the riddles are as hard as fighting with a tiger, so that lantern riddles have another name - ‘lantern tigers’ .

Lantern Riddles

14.Puppet Show

The Chinese Puppet Show is known as mu’ouxi (play of wooden dolls), in the country, which has its roots in remote time. Traditionally, Puppet Show comes in three forms: the rod-top puppet, the marionette or string puppet and the glove or hand puppet. In China, the rod-top puppet is the most popular show.

Puppet Show

15.Shadow Theater

Shadow Theater is the appellation of shadow show and its personages products ( including props and sceneries) . Chinese Shadow Theater, which is simple and elegant with profound national flavour, has the value both for appreciation and reservation.

Shadow Theater

After all, I think you can know about the Lantern Festival is a carrier of culture, not only Chinese folk activities can show in this festival, anything you can think will very easy join the Lantern Festival. So, When we creat the Lantern Festival in other country, China and other country’s culture and activities can very easy hybrid.

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other article: Lantern riddles of history

the Chinese lion and the spirits

Like a lion, traditionally considered lucky, lion dances in a Chinese architecture are performed to bring luck and repel evil spirits. The lion makes dramatic head is the sound of drums and gongs. Whether the person driving the lion's head or the movement of the drummer and the other brands so the movement and music are synchronized. Certain movements must follow a specific order. Changes in the basic strokes to help live music. Loud music is used to dissolve following the firecrackers and lion movements, evil spirits so happy, every one will enjoy it in lantern festival.

In southern China, Guangzhou City, is the lunar new year with a series of fun activities including lion dance, which always attracts the largest audience selected a dragon lantern.

During the Lantern Festival has very little in the last two millennium

During the Lantern Festival has very little in the last two millennium, technological advances, the festival more and more complex and visually stimulating. In fact, the festival is celebrated as in some areas (such as in Taipei, Taiwan) may confuse even the fancy American Christmas ornaments. Often, sports shows unique light that leaves the viewer with awe.



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And others about this lantern festival

Lantern complex shows in Yangko

Over 10 Lantern complex shows in Yangko, dragon and lion dances and lantern shows was in Beijing on February 28 there (15 January), according to the lunar calendar, the day of the Feast of Lights. Traditional and modern at the Festival Lantern (one of the most important festivals of China), signaled the culmination of the Spring Festival this year.

The Chinese Lantern Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese Han Dynasty over 2000 years. The popular custom to hold lantern show, 15 January (according to lunar calendar) of the Eastern Han Dynasty occurred (as Emperor Ming led the country).Emperor Ming supporters Buddhism. At the hearing, the monks sariras examined and lanterns to pay homage to Buddha on January 15th (Lunar), the emperor ordered its nationals to traffic lights to the imperial palaces and temples. Since then, the religious ritual has gradually been a popular custom. The Lantern Festival has spread from the imperial palace of the Company and all of central China in the country. Currently, the festival flower, fireworks, and fresh pasta is connected.

Foreign interest in festivals of China. Since February 26, a Lantern Display shows on Love lights shadow warriorsa Terracotta foreign international world of fashion and culture presented in Sanlitun, Beijing. Hundreds of aliens appears, lights were among the passers. A look at foreigners who have taken seriously the festival, locals gave thumbs up and said good job , regardless of the actual quality of the lanterns.

Liu Wugang, an official of the Department of Promotion and Education sub-district of Sanlitun, said there were 60 fires over 30 foreigners. Such aliens painted all sorts of things like houses, dragons and the sun on traffic lights, Chinese, given the essential images.

Some believe that new entrants May lighthouse a busy holiday season and feel the holiday atmosphere in the streets of Beijing. However, with fewer flowers and lantern shows unhappy Beijing during the festival. For satisfaction, but maintained the tradition of eating sweet dumplings. Sage said the enthusiasm Lantern Festival has been diluted, compared with the past.

Beijingers hope that the traditional and folk traditions are maintained as Beijing continues to become increasingly international city.

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Auckland Lantern Festival closed

Now Chinese Lantern Festival is a cultural exchange program of the Chinese folk, 26-28 February 2010, a grand celebration of Chinese Lantern Festival held at Albert Park in New Zealand Auckland (Albert Park is located near the University of Auckland, is accessible from Victoria, Kitchener and Wellesley streets of the prince in the city center.). More fancy lanterns made by the craftsmen of Zigong Lantern in the western Chinese province of Sichuan.


1. Chinese Lantern Crafts - Let them know how a traditional Chinese lantern 2nd Chinese Folk Music of Mongolia - Mongolian Chinese rock musician performs. A little history: Chinese Lantern Festival Hall.
3. Rolling Lantern Dance - Some players Zhejiang Province in China will cover the grass.
4. A wide selection of Chinese lanterns, fancy made by the Chinese imagination, Zigong Lantern homeland.

Some photos in Auckland Lantern Festival 2010