The Spring Festival holiday has ended, but the lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival has not dissipated, because the Lantern Festival has not yet arrived. China's Spring Festival will not really end until the Lantern Festival is over. The Lantern Festival is our traditional festival. There is Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. Different Lantern Festival activities will be held in various places. What are the fun activities of the Lantern Festival in Beijing? This article brings you the Lantern Festival activities of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Let's have a look.
2019 Beijing Lantern Festival
On the occasion of the arrival of traditional festivals such as the Lantern Festival, Xiaobian helped you collect all kinds of playing methods for the Lantern Festival in Beijing in advance. Some are beautiful, some are unique and novel, and there are tall, foreign and poetic hellip& hellip; Come and have a look! The traditional Lantern Festival is worth looking forward to!
New year's exhibition in the Forbidden City
The Forbidden City has a very special status for many Chinese people. Magnificent, dignified and elegant & hellip& hellip; People always praise the Forbidden City, but the Forbidden City seems unattainable because of this.
On January 6, the exhibition "New Year's greeting -- Celebrating the new year in the Forbidden City" in the Forbidden City was officially opened to the public. The exhibition is divided into two parts: cultural relics exhibition and live experience, covering all the open areas of the Forbidden City. The cultural relics exhibition is located in the main hall of the Meridian Gate and the exhibition hall of the East and west wild goose wing building. There are 885 exhibits (sets), and the number of cultural relics has set a historical record in the exhibition of the Forbidden City.
In the exhibition hall, the fiery red color and gorgeous palace New Year customs restore the spring festival atmosphere in the heyday of the Qing Dynasty. Several cultural relic palace lanterns hang from the beam, gorgeous, elegant and dazzling. 145 time-honored Chinese enterprises from 10 places such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shandong and Jiangsu have entered the palace to 'set up stalls' to display more than 10 cultural products such as traditional snacks and special food. This year must be a busy year!
Exhibition time: January 6, 2019 - April 7, 2019
Opening hours: closed on Monday and new year's Eve
Admission: 40 yuan in the off-season (advance booking is required)