Qinhuai Lantern Festival, also known as Jinling Lantern Festival and Confucius Temple Lantern Festival, is a folk cultural activity circulating in Nanjing, mainly held during the Spring Festival to Lantern Festival every year. It is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, and has the reputation of "the first lantern festival in the world" and "the first Qinhuai lantern festival in the world". It is the only large-scale comprehensive lantern festival in China and the largest folk lantern festival in China. Qinhuai Lantern Festival has a long history. As early as the Southern Dynasties, the traditional Lantern Festival was held in Nanjing, the capital of China. Its grand occasion is the highest in China, and it is the earliest Lantern Festival in China. After the early Ming Dynasty, the first boat hanging lanterns on Qinhuai River (commonly known as "lantern boat") was famous all over the world. The Qinhuai Lantern Festival in history was mainly distributed in the Qinhuai River Basin in Nanjing. After the 20th century, it mainly concentrated in the Confucius Temple area, and now it has expanded to the Wuli section on the east side of Shili Qinhuai. The core area includes Confucius Temple, Zhanyuan, Bailuzhou Park, Wu's former residence, Jiangnan, Zhonghua Gate, Laomendong, Hongji Ruins Park, Zhonghua Road, Pingjiangfu Road, Zhanyuan Road and Pipi Road.
2. Xiushan lanterns
Xiushan Lantern Festival is an important school of Lantern Festival in southwest China. It is a folk cultural phenomenon and a folk performing art that integrates religion, folklore, singing and dancing, acrobatics and paper binding art, and it is a valuable cultural heritage of our national folk music. Xiushan Lantern is named after the most representative lantern art in Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing. Also known as jumping lights, lighting lights and lantern show. It is an ancient folk song and dance rap art, which is widely spread in Tujia areas at the junction of Sichuan, Hunan, Guizhou and Hubei provinces. Xiushan Lantern is a folk song and dance loved by Tu, Miao and Han people in Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing. It has a long history and is spread all over the county, especially in the towns and villages such as Pass, Qingxi, Lanqiao, Pingkai, Yingfeng, Yongdong, Haiyang, Rongxi, Yilong and Yuping. Xiushan Lantern has two traditional forms of performance.
3. Quanfeng Lantern
Quanfeng Lantern is a traditional folk art form in Quanfeng Town, Xiushui, Jiangxi Province. It is an artistic performance activity between lighting, drama and dance. The main feature is the performance of the Lantern Team, which has a strong folk color. During the Spring Festival, all kinds of lanterns gather in the countryside, from the first lantern to the Lantern Festival, from east to west, singing all night. In addition, there are lanterns in folk festivals, birthday celebrations, Liang Liang ceremonies and weddings. The performance and singing form of Quanfeng Lantern can be divided into three lines: life, Dan and ugliness. Ugly face hook tofu, holding silk in one hand and handle in the other, making a trembling puppet army state; Wearing glasses and a hat, with a white line drawn on their brow, riding a horse (bamboo paper) and whipping, making fun of Dan Jiao from time to time, and the three of them walked around performing.
4. Zigong Lantern Festival
Zigong Lantern Festival is a folk culture with historical tradition. Zigong is located in Sichuan Province. The connotation of the Southern Lantern Festival is that it was formed in the Qingming period and gradually developed into a large-scale folk cultural activity with relatively fixed connotation, which was carried out at a specific time and had a certain inheritance route. One of the most remarkable features of Zigong Lantern Festival is the organization of dozens of large and medium-sized group lanterns and thousands of craft lanterns to participate in previous Lantern Festival. Large-scale, forming a colorful ocean, just like a fairyland, the lights are huge and spectacular. There are large-scale lighting groups covering thousands of square meters, such as "Mermaid Playing with Dragons" and "Pearl Goddess". There are towering lights such as "Dragon Column Fireworks", "Tengyunge" and "Caiyunge", which are amazing. Tourists stroll among them, listening to flute and orchestral music, fascinated by colorful lights and intoxicated by the unique charm endowed by lantern art. In Zigong area, lantern festival activities are accompanied by playing "Dragon Lantern", also known as "Dragon Lantern Dance" or "Dragon Lantern Play". Generally, the lights are turned on on the first day of the first month and turned off on the sixteenth day of the first month.
5. China Datong Ancient Capital Lantern Festival
China Datong Ancient Capital Lantern Festival is hosted by the CPC Datong Municipal Committee and Municipal Government. It has been successfully held for three times since 20 14. The theme of 20 16 Lantern Festival is "Come to Datong for the New Year and watch the Lantern Festival", aiming at making the ancient city "alive and on fire", creating an auspicious and happy holiday atmosphere, enriching the people's cultural life in the new year, creating a classic cultural brand, showing the cultural charm of the ancient capital and developing Datong hand in hand. The theme of the Lantern Festival is "Come to Datong for the New Year and have a good dream". More than 100 groups of large-scale traditional lanterns and modern acoustic photoelectric lanterns are set on the ancient wall of Datong, and colorful activities such as 3D dream light show, folk performance, opera performance and theme photography are introduced to light up the bright night of Datong, create a beautiful ancient capital, and show the harmonious beauty of tradition and modernity, history and humanity.
6. Shanghai Yuyuan Lantern Festival
From 1979, the Lantern Festival resumed, and from 1992, Yuyuan Shopping Mall held eight consecutive Lantern Festival. It was changed from 1995 to Shanghai Yuyuan Tourism Mall Co., Ltd., and the Lantern Festival was renamed as "Yuyuan Spring Folk Art Lantern Festival" (hereinafter referred to as "Yuyuan Lantern Festival"). Since then, it has been held in and around Yuyuan Mall from the first day of the first lunar month to the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, with an annual theme of a zodiac. So far, the 15th Lantern Festival has been successfully held. "Yuyuan Lantern Festival" makes full use of the historical space, architectural landscape and profound cultural charm of the old city, and creates unique cultural characteristics and folk affinity for Yuyuan Mall and even the whole of Shanghai with colorful lantern art and vivid folk customs. "Yuyuan Lantern Festival" has become the most famous and influential traditional folk cultural activity during the Spring Festival in Shanghai and a famous cultural brand in Shanghai, a metropolis at home and abroad.
7. Chengdu Lantern Festival
Chengdu Lantern Festival is an ancient traditional folk activity in Sichuan Province. The most famous Lantern Festival in China is based on the custom of Lantern Festival, which has formed its own unique artistic charm not only on the basis of the high economic and cultural prosperity of the land of abundance, but also on the basis of the long-term development of the traditional skills of Lantern Festival in 2000. Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, described the grand occasion of the Chengdu Lantern Festival in his poem "Going to the Yuan Dynasty": "The magnificent peak of the winding stadium has thousands of tourists and ladies; Advocating the boiling at noon, the evening lights move. " The main content of Chengdu Lantern Festival is to put all kinds of lights in the beautiful landscape of the garden, grouped according to different themes or stories. Up to 150 groups, each group consists of several different figures or scenery, and there are countless string lights, lanterns, archway lights, craft lights, painting and calligraphy lights, wall lights, mask lights, shadow play lights, underwater spotlights, air roses, hibiscus flowers and so on.
8. Lights out in Du Ying Town, Nan 'an
Lantern pulling in Du Ying Town of Nan 'an is a traditional folk cultural activity in Fujian. Ocean of lights. On the ninth day of the first month, the lantern-pulling activities here were organized by teams from different villages, with a length of 10,000 meters, which gathered in front of the Zhao Hui Temple and slowly advanced. Every time I go to this traditional activity, nearly 10,000 villagers pull the rope, and the villagers watching the lanterns even block the road, waiting for a lantern to be pulled out, and I have good luck all year round. The lights haven't been pulled out yet. Hui 'an waist drum, electronic band, Jinjiang lion dance and Quanzhou rock are shocking. The noisy gongs and drums accompanied by firecrackers made everyone boil. The 10,000-meter-long sea of lanterns is swaying back and forth as the crowd slowly moves forward. In the rows of lanterns, the words "Golden Color", "Tianding" and "Wealth" written on the lanterns also shine on people's faces with red light. Pulling lanterns expresses the good wishes of working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.
9. Qianmen Lantern Festival
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shangyuan Lantern Festival was popular in Qianmen area, which also left the first historical legend that Emperor Qianlong watched lanterns with his mother, performed filial piety and enjoyed the people on this day. Tian Yun, chairman of Tianjie Company, said that from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, and from the 13th to 15th, Qianmen will hold two traditional activities: Tianjie Lunar New Year and Tianjie Lantern Festival. Chongwen District (now Dongcheng District) has included Tianjie Niannian and Shangyuan Lantern Festival in the intangible cultural heritage declaration plan.