When will the Zigong Lantern Festival end?

Zigong Lantern Festival starts from the Spring Festival to the end of the fifteenth day of the first month every year.

Zigong Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is the most famous, with grand scenes and colorful lanterns. Zigong Lantern Festival lanterns are classified into craft lanterns, seat lanterns and group lanterns. It shows folk traditions, classical masterpieces, fairy tales and other themes, with the characteristics of large-scale, collectivization and linkage, and has become a wonderful flower in the Chinese national lantern culture.

Zigong Lantern Festival is ingenious in conception, exquisite in production and unique in materials. Porcelain tableware, glass bottles, cocoons, thin bamboo strips, tie-dyeing and silk can all be used as raw materials for making Yuanxiao. Traditional production technology is combined with modern science and technology to produce colorful lanterns.

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Lantern Festival (Zigong Lantern Festival) is one of the national intangible cultural heritages in Zigong, Sichuan.

As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, Zigong had the custom of enjoying lanterns in the New Year. There were "Lion Lantern Festival" and "Lantern Festival" in Qing Dynasty. At the beginning of the 20th century, festive Lantern Festival, such as lanterns, lanterns and dragon dances, was gradually formed, and it gradually developed into a Lantern Festival that integrated the southwest folk customs and folk customs.

Zigong Lantern Festival lanterns mainly include craft lanterns, seat lanterns and group lanterns. It mainly displays folk traditions, classical masterpieces, fairy tales and other themes, and has the characteristics of large-scale, group and linkage. From 1964 to the Spring Festival in 2020, Zigong has held 33 lantern festivals.

On June 7th, 2008, Zigong Lantern Festival was approved by the State Council, People's Republic of China (PRC) to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Legacy number: X-8 1.

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