Celebrities view lantern festival

Chinese Lantern Festival is more and more popular in the world, in many places, more and more celebrities join lantern festival.

Zigong has long history of holding lantern shows. Since 1964 when lantern show was restored, the new generation of lantern craftsmen have succeeded to carry forward the national culture to revitalize lantern art and brought in a wider perspective for the development of Zigong Lantern Festival. The scene of show grows larger, the lantern making technique becomes exquisite, individual lanterns develop group lanterns or lantern sets, static lamps evolve kinetic lanterns and lantern show layout is managed from plane to tridimension. The modern Zigong Lantern Festival decorated as fiery trees and silver flowers and as brilliant as the Milk Way has been turned into an unprecedented development stage.

The Lantern Festival exceed the limit of Sichuan Basin and display lantern show abroad, it reveals the powerful vitality of excellent traditional Chinese culture and builds up a new bridge for the old salt capital to approach the world.

It has become the principle of the constantly developed Zigong Lantern Festival “to utilize lantern show as media to make more friends and revitalize local economy; to take lantern show as the glory to inspire the local people to construct a better Zigong”. Since 1987, Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festivals that were held all through the ages in Zigong and the lantern shows held both home and abroad have insisted on the integration of lantern show and trade. Undoubtedly speaking, it played a positive role in acceleration of the economic development of Zigong.

Digest of Former president Comrade Jiang Zemin’s speech at the national conference of foreign publicity in 1990 – “In recent years, many cities have utilized the integration of culture and economy to make foreign publicity. The International Kite Festival in Weifang and the Dinosaur Lantern Festival in Zigong set up the successful examples.”

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Zigong Lantern Festival to Beijing

At night, the Panchen Lama, vice chairman of his party more than 20 people, the credentials Lin comrades, waiting to board the cruise, enjoy the Evening Breeze in colored lights along the lake. Vice chairman of the inquiry was interested in ,---- history of the development of Zigong Lantern Festival, how much was spent to prepare a long, long exhibition in Beijing, Zigong to the number of people ... ... and so on. Boat cruise in the lake, the Panchen Another boat on the nearby asked, Hey, good? When the steel factory lights in front of Wulong leisure, the Chinese lantern at Panchen quite interest, said: "The opening look at near point . "boat people who are interested in following its huge success glamor: Zigong Lantern Festival" to Beijing to increase the style, "" Nantianmen, Moon Palace, monkeys, daughter of the country everything, really Eight Immortals, display their talents Nice! great! "" 5 yuan a ticket is 50 yuan a also worth a visit! "

Credentials Comrade Lin, vice chairman of the detailed responses to the questioning of the Zigong Dinosaur Excavation introduced Zigong industrial and agricultural production. Panchen two said: "I must go after the Zigong look!" Zigong Lantern Festival Park in the North Sea during the exhibition, almost all into the party and state leadership are going to see, were all spirits, he kept praise, praise the brilliant spectacular Zigong Lantern Festival , praised the Kit Kat Zigong Lantern gorgeous, smart way to praise the people of Zigong in conjunction with light trade, with the expansion of awareness, linked with economic development "to light as the media, make friends, to revive the economy" model. They are: Deng Xiaoping, Yang Shangkun, Deng Yingchao, Song Ping, Qin Jiwei, Bo Yibo, Gu Mu, Ngapoi? Ngawang Jigme, Wang Ping, Liu Lan Tao, Jiang Hua, Li Desheng, Yang Dezhi, Chen Xilian, Hu Qiaomu, Geng Biao, Huang Zhen , Kang Shien, Kang Keqing, Hong Xuezhi, Zhang Tingfa, Deng Liqun and other comrades. A local medium and small cities organized carnivals had attracted so many party and state leaders, this large-scale cultural activities in the capital's history, it is indeed rare.