Today is the Lantern Festival! Eating Yuanxiao, guessing lantern riddles, appreciating lantern shows. How do you plan to spend your Lantern Festival?
Speaking of the Lantern Festival, the first thing you think of must be lanterns. When it comes to the Beijing Winter Olympics, nothing is more popular than Bing Dwen Dwen.
Today is the Lantern Festival. The filming crew of SICC (Sichuan International Communication Center) has decided to come to the city of Zigong for a special challenge -- making a festive lantern that emulates the exact model of the mascot.
The Chinese Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year when the first full moon appears at night. Lantern show is one of the essential part of the festival, symbolizing family reunion and harmony.
This unique lantern in the shape of Bing Dwen Dwen was 5.5 feet tall and totally handcrafted, costing 50 feet of cloth of seven different colors, 400 feet of iron wires and four types of acrylic paintings for decoration.
It took the local company three days to design, solder, mask, and assemble this cutie.
According to Zhang Yu, the chief designer, this is not a big deal in his entire career. Usually, a successful lantern show takes half a year for him to present it to the world, some of which could be over 19 feet tall.
Zigong, a city renowned for lantern-making, is blessed with long-lasting lantern shows which can be traced back to the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties and now holds various cultural activities with performances and night markets. It has held lantern shows in over 80 countries and regions around the world, attracting a total of over 500 million visitors.
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