Yuyuan lanterns light up Spring Festival

By Zhang Tingting: 0 Comment(s)Print E-mail China.org.cn, January 28, 2012

China's 2012 Spring Festival falls on January 23. The whole nation is celebrating the great family-reunion holiday, which often lasts 15 days until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, February 6 this year.

Lighting up Spring Festival lanterns has been a long-cherished festivities for the holiday. Here are local lantern fair activities reported from China.org.cn's journalist Zhang Tingting in Yuyuan, Shanghai.

Yuyuan Spring Folk Artistic Lantern Festival is held in Yuyuan Garden, the most famous classic garden in Shanghai. The lantern fair of Yuyuan, as one of the national intangible heritage, will last from the first to the 18th day of the Chinese Lunar year in 2012. [Photo/China.org.cn, Zhang Tingting]