Beijing is well-known for its numerous cultural activities, but the Forbidden City "Lantern Festival" is different. It not only connects with the ancient cultural tradition of Lantern Festival lantern viewing, but also brings the New Year atmosphere of the capital to a high point. It also awakens the public's awareness of the culture of the Forbidden City. The desire to understand deeply.
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After the Forbidden City released information about the " Forbidden City Shangyuan Night " cultural event yesterday afternoon, it triggered continuous attention and a rush to grab tickets. The reservation for the event on the 19th (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month) was very fast. Light". Reporters discovered at 0:00 today (February 18) that the Forbidden City ticket pre-sale system could no longer be opened. Today, the Forbidden City is scheduled to open ticket reservations for the Lantern Festival event on the 20th ( the 16th day of the first lunar month ).
▲ Screenshot of the official website of the Forbidden City ticket pre-sale system on February 18
The Forbidden City announced yesterday that it will hold the "Forbidden City Yuan Yuan Night" cultural event on February 19 (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month) and 20th (the sixteenth day of the first lunar month). This is the first time the Forbidden City has accepted reservations from the public for a night opening event. The event will invite representatives from all walks of life such as model workers, role models in Beijing, couriers, sanitation workers, soldiers of the People's Liberation Army and armed police, fire fighters, public security officers, etc. Some places will also be available for reservation by the public.
The public needs to make a reservation on the official website of the Forbidden City Ticketing (gugong.228.com.cn) to participate for free. The number of places is limited and the reservation is full. Yesterday afternoon, the Forbidden City opened reservations for events on the 19th, and tickets were booked quickly. According to plan, the Forbidden City will open ticket reservations for the evening event on the 20th today, but the specific opening time has not been announced. When the reporter opened the Forbidden City ticket pre-sale system at 0 o'clock today, he found that the web page could no longer be opened.
It is reported that the venues for this event are mainly in the Meridian Gate exhibition hall of the Palace Museum, Taihe Gate Square, the East Wall of the Forbidden City, Shenwu Gate and other areas. The audience can not only see the "Celebrating New Year in the Forbidden City" exhibition at night, but also see the Forbidden City light up for the Lantern Festival for the first time, and enjoy the Meridian Gate Tower, East and West Yanchi Towers, and Taihe Gate Square illuminated by lights. , walked through the nearly kilometer-long east wall of the Forbidden City covered with red lanterns, passed through the exhibition hall of the Donghua Gate Ancient Architecture Museum, and saw that some ancient buildings adjacent to the west side of the city wall were also lit up, creating a festive and peaceful festival atmosphere. . Paintings such as "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" will also be projected on the roof of the Forbidden City through artistic lighting.
Beijing News Express Reporter Ni Wei Editor Yang Ziming
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The "Night of Shangyuan" in the Forbidden City, the Shenwu Gate of the Forbidden City staged the light and shadow "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Picture Scroll"
In yesterday's 19th "Yabuli Chinese Entrepreneurs Forum" At the "Annual Meeting" of the National Palace Museum, Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, took the lead in his speech to "spoiler" the special decoration of the Palace Museum to welcome the Lantern Festival.
Shan Jixiang said that by then, a red lantern will be arranged every 5 meters, and more than 300 red lanterns will be strung together with a red dragon on the city wall to connect the five exhibition halls. "We hope to be able to connect some ancient buildings in the Forbidden City Light up and hold the Lantern Festival Night. Everyone is welcome to the Forbidden City. The Qingming Festival Along the River and the Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains will be performed on the roof. "
The reporter learned from the Forbidden City the specific content and location of this "Lantern Festival Night Tour". Mainly in the Meridian Gate Exhibition Hall, Taihe Gate Square, the East Wall of the Forbidden City, Shenwu Gate and other areas.
Audiences can enjoy the illuminated landscape of the Meridian Gate Tower and the East and West Wild Goose Wing Towers before entering. After entering the Meridian Gate, they first view the illuminated Taihe Gate Square, and then go to the Meridian Gate via the West Horse Road of the Meridian Gate. Tower and visit the "New Year's Eve in the Forbidden City" exhibition. After viewing the exhibition, walk along the city wall decorated with festive red lanterns to the southeast corner tower. After that, the audience will walk through the nearly kilometer-long wall of the Forbidden City East City decorated with red lanterns, and pass through the ancient Donghua Gate. In the exhibition hall, you can see that some ancient buildings adjacent to the west side of the city wall are also lit up, creating a festive and peaceful festival atmosphere.
After arriving at the northeast corner tower, the audience will walk to Shenwu Gate. In this area, they can see paintings such as "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" projected on the roof of the building through artistic lights on the south side of the city wall, and feel the feeling of people swimming in the middle of the painting. Atmosphere.After leaving the Shenwu Gate Tower, the audience can visit the Corner Tower Restaurant and Corner Tower Coffee on the east and west sides of the Shenwu Gate to end the cultural event of "Shangyuan Night".
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Forbidden City Lantern Festival: A little light brings the flavor of the Forbidden City
It is reported that on the 15th and 16th day of the first lunar month this year, the Palace Museum will hold a "lantern festival" for the first time in its 94 years, and it will be free and open to the public by appointment. Audiences can stroll around the palace walls and view lanterns, listen to live performances by the Central Chinese Orchestra and opera sounds from Changyin Pavilion, and appreciate paintings such as "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" projected on golden glazed tiles. Different from folk "making lanterns", you can see both the lanterns and the palace in the palace. Moreover, for the Forbidden City's first "Lantern Festival", the tour route is "high-standard" - in many parts, the audience can climb the city wall and overlook the entire Forbidden City.
No introduction is needed. Walking through the Forbidden City and admiring the lanterns during the Lantern Festival is a romantic image that immediately comes to mind. Those who successfully win a ticket in the "Seconds" ticket grabbing event are lucky. Just like "when it snows, Beijing becomes Peiping", "when there are lights, the Forbidden City becomes more like the Forbidden City". The moonlight is like water, the lights are dim, and immersed in the night view of the Forbidden City will really make people feel like they have traveled back to ancient times.
On social media, the " Forbidden City Yuan Night" event has become the focus of netizens' attention. Some netizens joked and suggested that tourists bring their mobile phones and history books, "in case they travel through time." In recent years, the Forbidden City attractions, historical stories and characters that have become popular through film and television works have also been ridiculed by netizens. A Forbidden City that is alive in popular culture will be merged with a Forbidden City that is refreshing at night. Netizens are understandably excited.
As we all know, the Forbidden City has successfully become an Internet celebrity attraction in recent years with the help of packaging and marketing through online media and channels. "The Forbidden City also needs marketing" - the red moon of the Forbidden City, the snow scene of the Forbidden City, pictures related to the Forbidden City flood the screen from time to time. The sales of cultural and creative products of more than one billion yuan every year have made the Forbidden City, which used to appear "tall and superior", closer. It has attracted more people's attention and has even become the cultural consumption choice of many netizens. This time the Forbidden City is open at night, which will make people feel more culturally close to the Forbidden City.
For Beijing residents and tourists, it took a long time to wait for the first "Lantern Festival" held in the Forbidden City in 1994. Safety considerations and technical conditions do not allow it, which is one reason, and the change of concept is another reason. Fortunately, today these two "obstacles" have been lifted: LED lights are used as the main light source, which solves the brightness problem without causing "excessive light". "Lighting up the Forbidden City" is a matter of course; the open area has increased from 30% to 30%. It increased to 80%, and the annual number of visitors exceeded the 17 million mark, making it the most visited museum in the world. The Forbidden City's service awareness has earned it a new status.
During the peak tourist season, there are too many visitors and it is difficult to get a ticket, which has become a "problem" faced by the Forbidden City. However, the management has been working hard to satisfy more people's desire to get close to the Forbidden City through detailed improvements. After the "Forbidden City Shangyuan Night" event is held, "evening opening" will become a call. Tourists can visit the Forbidden City at night. In addition to alleviating the huge passenger flow during the day, it also allows people to discover the beauty and culture of the Forbidden City at night. The charm.
Abroad, many museums have normalized their opening hours at night. The Louvre Museum, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc. will extend their opening hours on fixed dates or open at night. During the "Berlin Museum Night" held twice a year, many museums and memorials are open to the public from 6 pm to 2 am the next morning. In recent years, museums in China have also opened at night to allow the audience to experience "Museum Wonderful Night". The National Museum of China, Nanjing Museum, Jilin Changchun Puppet Manchukuo Palace Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, etc. have all joined this team.
Regardless of whether the Forbidden City can be opened at night in the future, the "Lantern Festival" event held this time has aroused widespread public interest.Beijing is famous for its numerous cultural activities, but the Forbidden City "Lantern Festival" is different. It not only connects with the ancient cultural tradition of Lantern Festival lantern viewing, but also brings the New Year atmosphere of the capital to a high point. It also awakens the public's desire for a deeper understanding of the Forbidden City culture. The desire to understand. This will undoubtedly effectively promote people's interaction with traditional festivals and traditional culture, allowing ancient and excellent culture to have a higher status in modern life. text / Han Haoyue (media person)
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19 Lantern Festival Lantern Festival Activity Guide in Beijing in 2019
(specific information is subject to the on-site)
Admission is by ticket (all certificates for free admission are invalid). Please follow the "Cultural West City" WeChat public account to grab tickets online (16:00 on February 15).
Highlights: Restore the grand scene of the Lantern Festival in the Red Mansion, set up palace lanterns and lantern riddles at Yuan Fei’s villa, and carry out performances. Set up lantern groups and lanterns on the island in the middle of the lake and along the west bank of the lake.
Chaoyang District
●Chaoyang Park Lantern Festival
Location: Chaoyang Park, Beijing
Ticketing: 1. Organize audiences to enter the park with tickets; 2. Grab tickets through Chaoyang Culture APP
Highlights: Lion dance, dragon dance, stilts, and car races Waiting for Flower Fair performances; inviting national-level and city-level intangible cultural heritage projects such as Beijing Rabbit Man and Jade Sculpture for display and interaction.
●Beijing Happy Valley Fantasy Light Festival
Location: Beijing Happy Valley
Ticketing: Matinee tickets: Happy Valley Park box office and online sales 220 yuan/full price ticket Night ticket: Night show special electronic ticket sold online 99 yuan/ Zhang (sale price 165 yuan/piece)
Highlights: More than 50 groups and tens of thousands of lanterns with different themes, as well as domestic animation IP theme lamp groups such as Pig Man and Biscuit Sheriff, bringing a joyful and cute lantern viewing experience .
Haidian District
● Old Summer Palace Lantern Festival Lantern Festival
Location: Old Summer Palace Ruins Park
Ticketing: Admission by ticket (Old Summer Palace annual and monthly tickets are invalid), Ctrip pre-sale a total of 10,000 tickets, no tickets are sold on site.
Highlights: The "Old Summer Palace Royal Lantern Festival" focuses on three major features: "Praying for blessings and welcoming good luck", "Peace and harmony", and "Cultural inheritance".
● Zhongguancun Lantern Festival Light Show
Location: Zhongguancun Street, Zhongguancun No. 1
Ticketing: Free and open
Highlights: Zhongguancun Lantern Festival Light Show is divided into two scenes. In Zhongguancun West District, the main stage of the light show is located in Sinosteel Building, The e-World Tower, Zhongguancun Plaza, and more than 20 buildings along the street are synchronously linked, divided into three chapters: the essence of Haidian, the light of science and technology, and the blessing of the new year.
●The Second Beijing West Cultural Garden Party
Venue: Haidian Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Center (North Hall)
Ticketing: Free and open to the public
Highlights: In Daoxiang Lake Intangible Cultural Heritage Science City, you can not only meet face to face with the masters of intangible cultural heritage Exchange and study, you can also experience and learn to make palace lanterns in person, and then hang the works on the prayer tree in the park to pray.
●Happy Pastoral Lighting Art Festival
Location: Sanyuan Agricultural Science and Technology Park, No. 119 Shangzhuang Road, Haidian District
Ticketing: Tickets for the lighting art festival fee area are 60 yuan
Attractions: Covering an area of more than 200,000 square meters, including farming themes, love themes, There are multiple light show themes such as traditional cultural themes, fairy tale themes, ocean themes, and flower sea themes.
Fengtai District
● World Park Lantern Festival Lantern Festival
Location: World Park
Ticketing: 50 yuan for adults; 40 yuan for students (undergraduate degree and below). No tickets are sold on site. Annual passes and parent-child annual passes will no longer be available on that day.
Highlights: The activities include light exhibitions, light shows, lantern riddle guessing, theatrical performances, etc. Sichuan Zigong non-genetic people were invited to design more than 20 sets of lanterns incorporating international elements, including "One World", "Masquerade", "Brilliant Diamond", "Dragon Fight", "Van Gogh's Sky" and "Happy Disney".
●The 2nd Nangong New Year Lantern Appreciation Garden Night
Location: Nangong Wuzhou Botanical Garden, Wangzuo Town
Ticket: 108 yuan/ticket (free for those under 1.2 meters), online ticket purchase only (Nangong Tourism official account and other sales platforms) .
Highlights: Traditional folk customs, ancient colorful tricks, dramatic face-changing, cross talk, juggling, shadow puppet shows, wrestling, cockfighting, foreign movies and other old Beijing flyover folk performances will be reproduced in Nangong Tourist Resort.
Shijingshan area
● Shijingshan Amusement Park Lantern Festival Lantern Festival
Location: Shijingshan Amusement Park
Ticketing: 1. Online ticket grabbing: Tickets for lantern viewing will be purchased through the Beijing Trade Union 12351 platform and the "Shijingshan Cultural E Station" public digital cultural service platform issued. 2. On-site ticket collection: On-site visitors can collect tickets with their ID cards and enter the park free of charge.
Highlights: Three themed lantern viewing areas, 9 groups of large lanterns, and 308 medium-sized lanterns. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of small LED lights were installed in conjunction with the amusement park's landmark buildings and original entertainment facilities to create 39 sets of light and shadow creative landscapes such as the Wheel of Fortune and the Fantasy Castle.
●Wulituo Traditional Folk Lantern Festival in West Beijing
Location: Wulituo Folk Custom Exhibition Hall in West Beijing
Ticketing: Free and open to the public
Highlights: The event is divided into two parts: folk culture, Lantern Festival walking and Lantern Festival lantern appreciation, and cross talk Party.
Langyuan Park New Media Art Light Exhibition
Location: Langyuan Park Park, Shijingshan District
Ticketing: Free and open
Highlights: The park is equipped with moonlight ocean, time tunnel, magic light ball, firework wish, flower forest avenue, colorful Butterfly Light Dance has six themed and characteristic lighting exhibitions.
Dongcheng District
● "Forbidden City Shangyuan Night" cultural event
Location: The Palace Museum
Ticketing: Invitation and a small number of reservations to visit
Highlights: Lighting and lighting layout illuminate some areas in the Forbidden City, including the Meridian Gate - Wild Goose Wings Tower, Taihe Gate, Southeast Corner Tower, Donghua Gate, Northeast Corner Tower, Shenwu Gate, etc.
● Jingshan Park Lantern Festival
Location: Jingshan Park, Beijing
Ticketing: Admission by ticket (all certificates for free admission are invalid), please follow the "Cultural West City" WeChat public account to grab tickets online (February 15 16 o'clock).
Highlights: The park will hold the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival with the theme of "Blessings in the Capital and Spring Festival in China" - "Colorful Lantern Festival to Celebrate the Chinese New Year".
● Yongding Gate Park Light Show
Location: Yongding Gate Square
Ticketing: Audiences enter the park with tickets and can grab tickets on the Dongcheng District Public Culture Cloud Platform
Highlights: On the Yongding Gate Tower, laser projection technology is used to Lights, lasers, sound effects, etc. create a light show. Showing the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and the beautiful central axis of Beijing, it combines elements such as the national emblem and national flag, Dongcheng's characteristic pictures, event themes and blessings such as "Blessings in the capital and spring greetings to China", "I love you China" and "Happy Lantern Festival to the people of the capital" , accompanied by video patterns such as welcoming spring and celebrating the Lantern Festival.
Mentougou District
● The first West Beijing Ancient Road Ice and Snow Carnival Lantern Festival
Location: Mentougou District "West Beijing Road" Scenic Area
Ticketing: 50 yuan (1. Online ticket purchase; 2. On-site ticket purchase at West Beijing Road Scenic Area)
Highlights: Introducing the Sichuan Zigong Lantern Festival, which enjoys the reputation of "the best lantern in the world", integrating the characteristics of the West Beijing Ancient Road Scenic Area, and setting up nine major theme sections such as "Ice and Snow Winter Olympics", "Rural Revitalization", "Vicissitudes of the Ancient Road" and "Green Waters and Green Mountains" , a total of 45 light groups, with a total length of 1.5 kilometers.
Miyun District
Miyun District Jiuqu Yellow River Array Lantern Festival
Location: Dongtian Gezhuang Village, Taishitun Town, Miyun District
Ticketing: Free and open (500 people)
Highlights: Jiuqu Yellow River Array Lantern Festival is commonly known as "Lamp Field". It has a history of more than 600 years and was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2007. It is a combination of ancient "formation" and folk flower fairs. It integrates folk tie-making crafts and entertainment, covering an area of 4,670 square meters, using more than 2,000 kilograms of straw, making 367 tie rods, more than 200 candles, more than 10 lighting lamps, and a total of 120 flower performers. There are 8 performances, including Chinese flags, lion dance, Asian drum, stilts, Shi Bu Xian, Di Yangko, Quan Zi, and Overlord Whip.
Yanqing District
● Yanqing Yongning Ancient Town New Year Cultural Temple Fair
Location: Yongning Ancient Town, Yanqing District
Ticketing: Free and open
Highlights: The Lantern Festival is themed on the World Garden, Winter Olympics and traditional festival culture, with Yongning Yuhuang Pavilion as the center. A 6,700-meter outline light strip, nearly 1,200 red lanterns, more than 200 artistic lanterns, 135 strings of neon lights and more than 470 strings of meteor shower lights were arranged in the four streets, east, west, south and north. Traditional flower performances such as bamboo horses and land boats were also carried out.
Daxing District
●Yizhuang area light show
Location: Yizhuang Development Zone Han’s Plaza, Lippo Plaza, Yicheng Technology Building and other places
Ticketing: Free and open
Highlights: The light show is themed "Blessings in the Capital and Spring Festival in China" , relying on core business districts, key enterprises and other places, in the form of projections to focus on the traditional culture of the Lantern Festival of joy and celebration, harmonious reunion, family, country and the world, as well as the livability and workability of high-precision enterprises such as Beijing Benz and BOE in the area and the development zone Urban construction and other content.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Yi Ni Wei
duty editor Wu Yanzu
