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Lantern festival is the most popular folk activity in China. It is the exhibition of many lanterns and lantern sets in a relative centralized place, which is like the accumulation of lanterns, therefore it is named lantern festival.
Lantern festival is made up of lantern sets. Each lantern set is a relative dependent whole that tells a story or makes an enjoyable scene. The size of a lantern set varies depending on the contents and exhibition venue. A large-scale lantern set can even take up several hundred square meters. A small-scale lantern set takes only several square meters. Majority of lantern sets takes 30-80 square meters each. |
anks to the high prestige. Chinese lanterns enjoy reputation throughout the world. The industrious and resourceful people of Zigong have not only invented the unmatched deep well drilling technology. They have also beautified life with all descriptions of lanterns. By drawing on quintessential Chinese culture. Zigong has been lauded as the venue for "Number One Lantern Festival under Heaven". Apart from its lanterns. 