Firewood and Silver Flowers Reunion Night Bell Rings Chutian Lantern Festival-More than a thousand activities in the province to celebrate the festival.

On the Lantern Festival, the wonderful night of the Lantern Festival in Hubei Provincial Museum was staged. Many citizens and tourists visited the Spring Festival market in the province at night, enjoyed the beautiful scenery of lanterns, and spent a wonderful midnight snack with their families. (Hubei Daily, all-media reporter He Yuxin, photo by Ke Wei)

Every family is happy tonight, and lanterns are decorated to make a lantern festival.

On the evening of February 5th, the theme lantern festival "Zhong Ming Chu Tian Yuan Snack" was lit in Hubei Provincial Museum. Chu Fengfei came to the provincial Expo, with three sounds of Fengming and lingering sound. "This light and shadow phoenix is so cool!" "It’s a blockbuster if you don’t sing for three years!" Taking the huge building of the provincial Expo as the screen, the light show projected colorful phoenixes, which shocked more than 3,000 on-site tourists. At the same time, the main venue of the Provincial Expo was lit up, and three sub-venues in Wuhan, Xiangyang and Yichang, Enshi Grand Canyon, Jingjie in Jingzhou, mian yang Town in Xiantao, Wenmei Village in Huangshan Dongshan and Orient Mountain in Huangshi were lit up in turn.

According to the introduction of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, on the night of the Lantern Festival, 100 cities in the province participated, featuring immersion, interaction, high quality and high specification, and carried out thousands of interactive folk experiences, night trips and cultural performances in landmark markets, key business districts and characteristic blocks. Thousands of tourists and citizens spent the Lantern Festival together, lit lanterns and toured Hubei.

Lantern lights up the wonderful night of the museum

"Thirty fires, fifteen lights", Hubei people choose to express their expectations for a better life with lights and fire. Nearly a thousand lanterns of various colors will make the provincial Bobei Square look particularly charming. Tourists walk under lanterns, smiling at solve riddles on the lanterns, punching in for a group photo. On the stage in front of the square, the northern lion is churning, the Chu opera is melodious, and the bells and dances are surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside.

The most attractive thing in the provincial Bohua Lantern Market is the various non-legacy foods. Zumreti and Shu ‘ake are both senior one students in Xinjiang class of Donghu Middle School. Zumreti holds a sugar man in his hand, and Shu ‘ake holds a rice cake while eating and laughing: "It’s the first time for us to spend the Lantern Festival in Hubei. It’s so delicious! Today, we also know what it’s like for Xin Qiji to write’ A Thousand Trees in the East Wind Night’. "

Another "popular booth" is showing the classic play "heavenly god blesses the people" of traditional shadow play. On the curtain, exquisite shadow figures are flying up and down, and in the shadow of the lamp, wonderful stories are staged one after another, which makes people linger. Wang Hairong, a non-genetic inheritor of the shadow play in Jianghan Plain, said that heavenly god blesses the people is the highlight of the evening, which symbolizes a peaceful and smooth New Year and wishes for a better and happier life.

The provincial museum, which is open for night tours, is crowded. In the Ceng Houyi exhibition hall, Wu Fei, dressed in Hanfu, came to visit with a lantern: "Today’s wardrobe is my own, and I am very much looking forward to the wonderful night of the Lantern Festival museum."

"The first time I gave an explanation to tourists at night, I also felt unforgettable. Today’s tourists should be particularly able to understand the beauty of traditional culture when they encounter Jingchu historical relics during the Lantern Festival. " Ren Fei, a volunteer from the provincial blog, said.

On February 3rd, the West Community Art Team of Chengguan Town, Zhushan County, Shiyan City performed Lion Dance. (Photo by Shao Yilong, Vision Network)

Immerse yourself in the charm of China Year.

The Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year, and Hubei has the custom of "celebrating the New Year at half a month". According to the introduction of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, from February 1 to February 5, cities and states in the province made full use of regional cultural resources to carry out colorful Lantern Festival cultural activities through online and offline forms.

Wuhan Linkong Airport held the Dragon and Lion Competition and the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Rabbit, and 18 dragon dance teams staged wonderful skills. There are also many activities on the scene, such as the exhibition experience of food, Hanfu performance, solve riddles on the lanterns and so on, which make citizens and tourists happy to celebrate the Lantern Festival. (Hubei Daily, all-media reporter Ni Na correspondent Peng Hui, photo by Jun Jun)

The provincial Expo not only has a market, but also sets up a stage, and classic plays such as Peking Opera "My Beauty Case" and Huangmei Opera "The Fairy Match" are staged in turn. Luo Youlian, a tourist, and his friends, were humming a tune while beating the beat, listening with relish. "We old Wuhan people want to listen to big dramas, Huangmei operas and Chu operas in the first month, and we love them as long as there is a play, from the elderly to the children."

In Jiqing Street, Wuhan, the folk cultural activities of "Dragon and Lion Dance" on the fifteenth day of the first month of 2023 "Taste of Wuhan" were staged. The cheerful waist drum is full of passion, two pairs of golden lions are charming, and two golden dragons are majestic. They are agile, sometimes playing with people, and sometimes jumping and slapping, which attracts cheers from onlookers. Hubei Drum "Harvest Field", Yue Opera "Peach Blossom Fan" and Peking Opera "Hu Jiazhuang" were staged one after another, attracting a large number of citizens and tourists to watch, and laughter and cheers came out from time to time.

In Chenpijiawan, Xiaonan District, Xiaogan City, a cry of "Lights on" kicked off the "Lion Dance Lights and Lantern Festival". At night, the lanterns along the river Xuanen Gong River are dreamy and the audience is like a city. The Xuanen Lantern Festival is new this year, and a series of intangible cultural programs such as grass gongs and drums, three-stick drums and high-pitched folk songs are particularly eye-catching under the light of lanterns.

On February 4th, the rural people in Yangdian Town, Xiaonan District, Xiaogan City danced Gao Long to "make trouble" with the Lantern Festival, praying for a happy and auspicious New Year and good weather. (Hubei Daily full media reporter Zhang Hong correspondent Xu Sishe)

The four banks of the two rivers in Wuhan, the riverside in Yichang, Tang Cheng in Xiangyang and OCT depict the "One Night Fish and Dragon Dance" in Shangyuan Festival with dreamy light shows.

On February 1st, the caidian district Cultural Square in Wuhan was full of gongs and drums, jubilant, and the citizens performed the Lantern Festival by picking lotus boats. (Hubei Daily full media reporter Zhang Hong correspondent Zhou Xiong Lei Wen photo)

The 7 th Hankouli Temple Fair, Wudang Mountain Intangible Cultural Temple Fair and other intangible markets such as Yuanxiao Temple Fair attract tourists. The 2023 Lantern Festival Concert in Qintai Concert Hall, the traditional festival repertoire of the provincial Peking Opera Theatre, the folk characteristic performance of "Zhiyin Hao" and the traditional Chu Opera of "Pear Garden Striving for Spring and Celebrating the Festival" in Xiaogan, visitors feel the authentic folk customs.

On the evening of February 5th, Yichang’s "Looking forward to 2023" fireworks lantern festival was held simultaneously in Yichang city. (Photo by Hubei Daily’s all-media reporter Liu Shusong)

According to the person in charge of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, since the Spring Festival holiday, the national cultural tourism market has shown obvious signs of recovery, the enthusiasm of tourists has steadily rebounded, and the domestic and inter-provincial tours in Hubei Province have resumed in an orderly manner. In order to create a festive, reunion and peaceful atmosphere for the Lantern Festival, our province made every effort to create a series of activities of "Love Hubei Lantern Festival", which were jointly organized by the municipal and state cultural tourism bureaus and related key cultural tourism enterprises. The activities consist of "1+4+1000" series of activities, namely "Zhong Ming Chu Tian Yuan Xiao Ye" lantern festival, and the series of activities of crossing the ancient Jing-Yuanxiao Temple Fair, connecting Jing opera with Taiwan-Yuanxiao performance, Jing color blooming-Yuanxiao fireworks series, and Jing American style-Yuanxiao Fei.

(Hubei Daily full media reporter Jing Wong Tian Peiwen correspondent Ewen Travel)

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