Source: Qinhuangdao Garden Expo
Live-action Photo of the Garden Expo
Still complaining about the dull Spring Festival? Not knowing where to go during the Spring Festival? Qinhuangdao Garden Expo Lanterns Festival will open on January 18, 2019 which combines large-scale lantern festivals and traditional temple fairs, it will make all of your dreams about Spring Festival come true! This festival will be designed a story route, a tour route and a visual route with the literature, the spirit and the city as the main themes. It is a large-scale and high tech cultural activity of Spring Festival customs.
More than 60 sets of lanterns will be exhibited in this Lantern Festival made by folk craftsmen from Zigong, Sichuan, “Hometown of Lanterns”, including lanterns with traditional myths and historical themes such as “Fish in the Northern Sea” and “Birds Paying Homage to Phoenix”, lanterns highlighting modern styles such as “The City of Happiness”, lanterns evoking your memories such as the historical masterpiece “Dream of Red Mansions” and “West Chamber” , and the local theme lanterns such as “The First Pass under Heaven” and “Come to see the Boundless Ocean”, and all of them are novel in shape and grand in scale with great momentum. The largest single lantern in this Lantern Festival is “Golden Pig Greeting Spring Festival”, which is 25 meters long and 6 meters high, and it will surely become online celebrity of this year.
The “900-meter colorful lanterns gallery” that has created the Guinness Records is the most fantastic part of the festival which is composed of snowflakes, butterflies, petals and other decorative lanterns. The lanterns galleries are linked by lanterns and are integrated with the curved trails of the Garden Expo. Walking in the light belt, it feels like wandering in a dreamland.
The Lantern Festival will be officially unveiled on January 18, 2019, opening from 9:00 to 22:00 every day with the ticket price of 50 yuan. Bus No. 36 and No. 707 reach to the north gate of the Garden Expo, which will shorten the departure time and increase the number of departures to facilitate the citizens during the Lantern Festival. Self-driving visitors may park the car at the North Gate parking lot.
Tips: The tour starts from the north side of the park. Visitors to the Lantern Festival and Temple Fair will enter the park from the main entrance of the North Gate of the Garden Expo.
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