Xi'an Lantern Festival will last 42 days from January 28 to March 10, 2019. It will span the Spring Festival, Valentine's day and Lantern Festival. While restoring the prosperous scene of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty and displaying the local characteristic culture in multiple dimensions, this Spring Lantern Festival not only fully excavates the trend elements and advanced technology, but also introduces a large number of cool high-tech lamp groups integrating sound, light, electricity and three-dimensional interaction, subverts the tradition and is worth waiting for, so as to make tourists at home and abroad experience the most wonderful, lively The warmest global Spring Festival Entertainment feast! Let's have a look.
Xi'an city wall New Year Lantern Festival
The 2019 Xi'an city wall New Year Lantern Festival will be held from January 28 to March 10, 2019. When we meet Xi'an people one year old, 10000 lanterns bloom together, which is the taste of Xi'an People's own year and the hospitality of Xi'an New Year!
Five theme areas
1. Shengshi Huazhang District
With auspicious and festive New Year Festival elements as the theme, this area creates a happy scene with full new year flavor through different shapes of lanterns, showing the characteristics of traditional New Year festivals. It is very suitable for taking photos and sending friends~
2. Happy prayer area
With the theme of Chinese traditional New Year blessing culture, this area sets up a characteristic blessing interactive experience area. There will be rich and colorful blessing activities in the blessing area. Do you want to write down your new year wishes?
3. The old capital of China
The district uses colorful lanterns to display the brilliance of Chinese culture and the humanistic charm of the ancient capital Xi'an, so that citizens and tourists can understand Xi'an history and Chinese culture while watching the lanterns.
4. Colorful light area
The tiktok shows the fashion elements from the world through modern photoelectric technology, and combines people, lights and scenery perfectly through brilliant colors and innovative techniques. Buddy who wants to shoot the video and audio video must not miss this place.
5. Dream zone
Among the many light areas, the most popular place for children and big friends is here. Through the use of cartoon themes, fairy tales and colorful space, it shows a colorful fairy tale world. Disney elements will appear this year. If you want to find childlike fun, you should come here~
Activity details
At the annual City Wall Lantern Festival, in addition to enjoying the lantern show, we can also experience many interesting traditional projects, such as making lamps, hanging lamps, lighting lamps, praying and so on.
1. Handmade lamp
According to historical records, the ancient city of Xi'an is the origin of the Lantern Festival. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of Lantern Festival existed in Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty. During the prosperous period of the Western Han Dynasty, the government of Chang'an court held lanterns and offered sacrifices in the palace every first month to pray for national peace and security. Since then, lantern making has gradually sprung up and become a traditional craft.
2. Lighting and hanging lamp
Lighting and hanging lamps were customs of the Han Dynasty. Today, the lighting and hanging ceremony at the wall New Year Lantern Festival not only has the meaning of praying and opening the Lantern Festival, but also has the meaning of opening the new year and bringing good luck.
3. Pray piously
At the annual Xi'an City Wall Lantern Festival, there will be no shortage of prayer lamps. The little friends who come to see the Lantern Festival from all directions will write their wishes in the new year on the lamp, and then hang it in the prayer lamp Gallery of the City Wall Lantern Festival. The scattered prayer lamps in the night are the embodiment of everyone's expectations for a better life in the future.
Lantern Festival tickets
Weekday ticket: 60 yuan / person (pre-sale ticket: 54 yuan / person)
Time: January 28 - February 4, 2019 (from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to new year's Eve); February 21 - March 10, 2019 (from the 17th day of the first lunar month to the 4th day of February)
Designated daily ticket: 100 yuan / person
Time: February 5-20, 2019 (from the first day to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month)
favoured policy
1. Half price ticket: 27 yuan / person (the following conditions shall be met)
① 1.2m-1.4m children
② Student card (except student card of master degree or above and student card of foreign institutions)
2. Free ticket system (the following four conditions can be enjoyed)
① Children under 1.2m
② People over 65 years old hold birthday card or ID card
③ Servicemen in active service hold officer cards
④ Holding disability certificate