Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month of the Chinese traditional calendar.
It`s the first important festival after the traditional Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), also the first night to see a full moon and it marks the end of the two-week New Year holiday period. During Lantern Festival people get together to celebrate the beginning of spring by watching lanterns, fireworks and eating Yuanxiao (sweet stuffed dumplings made of glutinous rice flour served in soup...quite disgusting to my taste buds ;)
You could think the war had started and somebody was bombing the city...Lantern festival in Rizhao is a hard-core celebration:
...colourful company floats all around the central park of town...
...masses of people...
...al kinds of snacks & drinks sold...
...balloons..more balloons :)
...fireworks (focusing on sound effects not the visual ones)all around...
and not so many traditional lanterns disappearing into the night sky!!! All I saw were these decoration lanterns.
For undisturbed and clear view of celebration ground...next morning it`s a pleasant relaxing walk :)
1 comment:
Colourful indeed!
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