Using lights as the medium and spreading warmth, the first Yinzhou Shallow Water Bay ‘Lights Filling the Garden, Rural Charm’ large-scale art lantern festival jointly created by Ningbo Shallow Water Bay Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. and Zigong Huajing Lantern Culture Communication Co., Ltd. will be held in Yinzhou Shallow Water Bay Rural Happy World from September 18, 2013 to October 31, 2013. The first Yinzhou Shallow Water Bay large-scale art lantern festival is a display of traditional projects and a visual feast attracting the attention of the whole city. It has national heritage. The lantern groups of this Shallow Water Bay lantern festival all come from Zigong area. As early as the Tang and Song dynasties, Zigong had the custom of enjoying lanterns in the new year. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it further developed into various lantern festival holidays. Zigong lantern festival is famous for its magnificent momentum and large scale; it wins with ingenious conception and exquisite production; it is also known as ‘high-taste art’, ‘flowing cultural tourism resource’ and ‘the pride of national traditional culture’ with a wide folk foundation and is deeply loved by the masses. This lantern festival is of grand scale, great creativity and elaborate production, with interaction between people and lanterns, integrating ‘form, color, sound, light, movement and performance’. Closely centering on ‘taking landscape as the root, culture as the soul, and shining ancient and modern times’, highlighting Chinese cultural elements and connecting various functions such as urban economy, culture, society and leisure as the theme, attracting people with unique characteristics and moving people with distinct novelty as the design main line, it has made bold breakthroughs in style, color and production materials, giving play to artistic expression and visual impact. Due to the rich and appropriate selection of themes, it enriches the cultural connotation of the scheme and fully reflects the combination of tradition and fashion, traditional art craftsmanship and modern technology, coexistence of delicacy and magnificence, enjoyment and culture. It shows a long scroll of Jiangnan culture’s customs and human landscapes, local conditions and customs, and conveys a harmonious, warm, lively, festive and auspicious festival atmosphere, building a beautiful landscape for beautiful Yinzhou. This lantern festival is divided into three theme areas: ‘Family Reunion under the Full Moon – Celebrating Reunion in Mid-Autumn Festival’ and ‘Rural Charm – Leisurely Shallow Water Bay’. Each theme area has different styles and cleverly combines Chinese traditional festivals with the charm of Shallow Water Bay farm. The lantern festival is truly a rare event and not to be missed. The design of the whole set of lanterns has new breakthroughs in content, theme and production materials, with higher cultural content and broader historical levels. A large number of Chinese cultures, historical allusions, fables and myths that are familiar to the audience, seem familiar or rarely known span time and space, enabling the audience to have perceptual and rational cognition and understanding of Chinese traditional culture while watching the lanterns.
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Children under 2 meters (excluding 2 meters): free. For children with a height between 1.2 meters (inclusive) and 1.4 meters (excluding 1.4 meters): half price. Elderly: Those aged 70 years old and above (inclusive) can enter for free with valid certificates (but cannot participate in any activities). Those aged between 60 years old (inclusive) and 70 years old (exclusive) with senior citizen cards (ID cards): half price. Military personnel: Active-duty military personnel with military officer certificates: half price. Disabled people: Free with valid certificates (but cannot participate in any activities). Tour guides: Free with valid tour guide certificates within the validity period (but cannot participate in any activities). Supplementary note: During the windmill festival, children aged 1 year old and above (inclusive) need to purchase tickets. The above information is for reference only. The specific information shall be subject to the disclosure on the day at the scenic spot.
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