People across China celebrate Lantern Festival

People across China celebrate Lantern Festival

Source: (People's Daily Online) 16:37, February 07, 2023

A lantern show in Baotu Spring Park attracts crowds of visitors in Jinan, north China’s Shandong Province, on Feb. 2, 2023. (People’s Daily Online/Qiao Shu)

This year’s Lantern Festival fell on Feb 5, 2023. Various activities were held across China to mark the event, which people celebrated in an atmosphere of joy and ecstasy.

Visitors admire the illuminated lanterns, and try to solve the riddles hanging below them, on the Central Street of Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on Feb. 2, 2023. (People’s Daily Online/Su Jinggang)

Citizens try to solve riddles in an activity celebrating the Lantern Festival in Nanchang, east China’s Jiangxi Province, on Feb. 2, 2023. (People’s Daily Online/Shi Yu)

A woman performs in a “Shehuo” competition in Yinchuan, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on Feb. 3, 2023. In many rural areas across China, folk parades and celebrations collectively known as "Shehuo" are held to bring the festivities to a climax. (People’s Daily Online/Gao Jiawei)

A lantern show attracts crowds of tourists to Yuyuan Garden in east China’s Shanghai, on Feb. 3, 2023. (People’s Daily Online/Gong Sha)

Children play with colorful lanterns in a historical quarter of Fuzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province, on Feb. 3, 2023. (People’s Daily Online/Jiao Yan)

Visitors crowd to watch a lion dance in Nanling county, east China’s Anhui Province, on Feb. 4, 2023. (People’s Daily Online/Zhang Jun)

Female soldiers from the Chinese People's Armed Police Force make tangyuan, a kind of sweet glutinous rice dumpling, to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Taiyuan, north China’s Shanxi Province, on Feb. 4, 2023. (People’s Daily Online/Dong Tong)

A visitor takes photos of the butter flowers in Ta’er Monastery in Xining, northwest China’s Qinghai Province, on Feb. 5, 2023. (People’s Daily Online/Gan Haiqiong)