CCTV News (News Broadcast): The Lantern Festival is here, and the Lantern Festival is festive. Watching lanterns, shaking up the community, and eating delicious food, people from all over the country celebrate the festival in a lively and prosperous atmosphere.

The light is filled with colorful celebrations. In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, more than a hundred people carried a "bench dragon" parade of more than 200 meters and a total of 88 festivals, allowing everyone to feel the strong festive atmosphere. In Yuyuan, Shanghai, citizens and tourists are in the sea of ​​lights, check in and take photos, and are full of enthusiasm. In Tianjin, people visit the light and shadow market, guess riddles, watch performances, and can also enjoy naked-eye 3D light show and drone light show to experience the new vitality brought by technology to traditional lantern festivals. In the Beijing Garden Expo Park, more than 100 large-scale themed lamp groups, including Fulu Shouxi, and more than 100,000 colorful lamp pendants, allowing people to immerse themselves in the charm of traditional culture.

Happy Lantern Festival. People convey the festive festive celebrations of the festival through enthusiastic and unrestrained performances in the stilts of the Central Wei in Ningxia, the square dance of Shuangya Mountain in Heilongjiang, and the Jiaodong Yangge in Shandong. In Bazhou, Hebei and Xiaogan, Hubei, the dragon dance performance was powerful and agile, and the audience cheered frequently. Citizens in Yiyang, Hunan organized a phalanx of dragon dances, flower drums and other performances to patrol the whole city to welcome good fortune. Folk artists in Xi'an, Shaanxi send holiday blessings to everyone through various forms of majestic gongs and drum performances. In Urumqi, Xinjiang, the social fire show incorporates Xinjiang flowers and hand-stools with regional characteristics. In Lintan, Gansu, folk performances such as lion dancing and dry boat skiing attract many audiences. In Xiangfen County, Shanxi, the representative project of the national intangible cultural heritage, the Tianta Lion Dance, was staged brilliantly, and citizens and tourists were feasted on their eyes.

Eat Lantern Festival and talk about reunion. In Chongqing, many tourist attractions provide steaming dumplings to citizens and tourists who come to share reunion and beauty. In Tulou, Hua'an, Fujian, the villagers make southern Fujian-style dumplings and various special foods to share delicious food with tourists and celebrate the festival together. In the resettlement community for poverty alleviation through relocation in Danzhai, Guizhou, the relocated people wore ethnic costumes and gathered in the community square, carrying out folk activities such as wrapping dumplings and guessing riddles to celebrate the festival. In the multi-ethnic community in Huaqiang Street, Nanning, Guangxi, residents sat together, adults and children worked together to make dumplings and cook dumplings, and they were having a happy time.