Historical Zigong Lantern Festival
As a national intangible cultural heritage, Zigong Lantern Fair is famous all over the world for its magnificent momentum, grand scale, exquisite and unique, confusing and bizarre characteristics, and has won the reputation of "the first lantern in the world".
"There is no light without a month is not entertaining people, there is no light is not spring." "Thousands of doors unlocked million lights Ming, the middle of the first month moving Dijing." ... In ancient Chinese poetry, there are countless poems describing colorful lanterns. The dim lights, is the joy of the New Year, but also the traditional culture bloom of brilliance.
Lantern appreciation is one of the most traditional customs with Chinese characteristics. In the first lunar month, Zigong Lantern Festival becomes the most photogenic and imaginative "New Year's Eve activity" in the south. This custom originated in the Tang and Song dynasties, when people burning lanterns and appreciating lanterns, is an important festival custom during the New Year.
In the past, Zigong Lantern Fair has always inherited the custom of being held during the Spring Festival, which is only held for more than one month every year. Now, Zigong Lantern Fair has changed its opening time from the annual golden time of the Spring Festival to a regular lantern viewing tour throughout the year.
It is understood that in recent years, Zigong has continuously transformed and innovated the most original New Year ornamental lanterns, organically combined traditional craft with modern technology, combined traditional culture with modern fashion, forming the overall artistic characteristics of Zigong colored lanterns, which are grand in scale, spectacular in momentum, unique in conception and exquisite in production.
"Salt Rhyme Thousand Autumn" into the naked eye 3D; The giant mechanical transmission technology of Happy Zodiac brings visitors a new experience of "colorful lights + culture + technology"; With the Chinese national myth "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" as the clue, "Alien in the Mountains and Seas" integrates transmission, fogsen, sound effects and other technologies to bring an immersive experience of the strange world... The 28th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Fair recently came to a successful conclusion. The 182-day event broke the record for the longest period of operation in the 58-year history of Zigong Lantern Fair and attracted nearly 900,000 visitors.
"Zigong Lanterns are characterized by their strong ability to shape buildings and create scenes." The relevant person in charge of the Chinese lantern world introduced that Zigong lantern integrated abstract composition, quasi sculpture, plane painting and calligraphy, composite decoration and light motion mechanism as a whole, forming a comprehensive space art with strong national characteristics. With the penetration, brightness and brilliant color of the light, it gives the soul of the lantern and makes it full of vitality.
According to the introduction, the 29th Zigong Lantern Fair will be opened in January 2023. The new Lantern Fair will build a city of thousands of lights in the meta-universe connecting reality and virtual world with colored lanterns. Five meta-experiences, "Meta-view lamp", "meta-collection", "meta-good things", "meta-broadcast" and "meta-game", will support the meta-universe world, realize a story-oriented meta-universe world, a diversified super IP world and a gamified interactive world of science and technology, and create the first meta-universe lantern Fair in China. To promote the new development of Zigong lantern industry.
