CCTV News: The New Year will be celebrated in less than half a month. As the Spring Festival approaches, the New Year atmosphere is getting stronger in various places. In the Longqingxia Scenic Area of ​​Beijing, nearly 700 ice lanterns and snow sculptures make the atmosphere before the festival more festive and lively.

In Longqingxia, the most popular one is this big guy - the ice sculpture in the image of Wukong. Not only is the pure color, but the lines of its fingers and hair are outlined vividly. The scenic spot also specially built a viewing platform about 5 meters high in front of Wukong. Many tourists stood in front of him and imitated his posture to take photos and "check in".

As the core area of ​​Longqing Gorge, the Ice Lamp Art District covers an area of ​​8,000 square meters, displays 350 ice lantern works, 240 ice sculptures and 80 snow sculptures.

These works cleverly integrate popular IP elements such as Journey to the West and Xianxia on the basis of traditional ice lantern art. As a glacier waterfall that is retained every year, air membrane lamps and fine snow sculptures have been added in 2025, attracting a large number of tourists to stop and take photos.

The lantern area covering an area of ​​190,000 square meters also attracts a large number of tourists to watch. 8 groups of large-scale lighting sculptures, 50 groups of gorgeous lanterns, 2,000 tree lamps and tens of thousands of decorative lighting lamps complement each other, decorating the Longqing Gorge at night dazzlingly. New Year's flowers have entered the peak sales season, and the flower exhibition market is popular

Now, New Year's flowers in various places are also starting to sell hot. In Shanghai, combined with the experience consumption needs of mass festivals, New Year's Eve, shopping, fun, and food, more and more novel offline market activities, flower art exhibitions, etc., have emerged one after another, becoming a new highlight of the New Year flower market in 2025.

On Yongfu Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, a New Year flower-themed flower art exhibition attracted a large number of tourists to visit. The main colors of red and yellow are the colors, and the elements of lanterns, characters of blessings, dragon and lion dances create a full Spring Festival atmosphere. Many rare flower materials, "check-in" points and interactive mini-games designed with photo frames are popular among young consumers.

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In the Expo Cultural Park located in the center of Shanghai, this New Year flower market with an area of ​​nearly 600 square meters covers six sectors, including plant and flower market, global food, entertainment world, flash cultural and creative industries, and has become a new place for citizens to buy New Year flowers.

Sweet Snow Dumplings convey a strong New Year atmosphere

As the Spring Festival approaches, the New Year atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger. In Longgang Community, Tongcheng Town, Tianchang City, Anhui Province, there is a special pastry called "white like snow, like dumplings, crispy and delicious" in the local area - snow dumplings. In the past few days, the pastry shop that makes snow dumplings has become busy.

Mix white flour and lard in proportion, stir well and knead. Cut the ghee into small pieces of the same size and wrap it in the kneaded dough, and then roll the dough wrapped in the ghee into such a crescent shape.

When the oil temperature is appropriate, put the rolled crescent-shaped snow dumpling skin into the oil pan. The pastry expands rapidly and the color becomes golden. At this time, you can take it out and drain the oil sauce, spread the cooked glutinous rice flour and white sugar powder evenly, and finally add green plum and red shreds. In this way, the sweet but not greasy, crisp and delicious snow dumplings are made. Lanterns are popular in the twelfth lunar month, and orders are busy.

The New Year atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger, and traditional handmade lanterns are also ushering in the peak production and sales season. At present, the lantern factory in Hengqu Village, Jiancaoping District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province is busy, and workers are busy making all kinds of lanterns.

In a lantern factory in Hengqu Village, various lanterns are filled with warehouses. Workers cut iron wire, weld skeletons, paste and color, and make lanterns in full swing.

It is understood that lantern production is a characteristic industry of Hengqu Village, with more than 20 lantern factories in the area. In order to make the lanterns beautiful, the lantern factory has also innovated themes and introduced new technologies to meet the different needs of customers on the basis of traditional handmade production. At present, there are constant local orders for lanterns, not only popular in Shanxi Province, but also sold to surrounding provinces.