After the first snowfall in the Year of the Dragon, the white snow and the red lanterns form an interesting contrast. The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month falls on the weekend. The city park management center recommends 20 theme park activities. Citizens can visit the park nearby, enjoy spring flowers, guess riddles, make lanterns, watch shadow puppets, paint sugar paintings... and share the festive atmosphere of reunion.
In the Summer Palace, tourists can make dragon lanterns, dance with dragons and play with pearls, auspicious dragon colored bags, dragon head hats, etc., and enjoy the charm of ancient architectural color paintings in the explanation and jigsaw activities. Beihai Park will hold riddle guessing activities in Yong'an Temple Scenic Area, visiting ancient buildings, watching lanterns, and guessing riddles to increase the pleasure of visiting the park. Lanterns of different dynasties and styles are hung on the Zhiyuan Zhai Corridor in Xiangshan Park, and riddles, quick questions and answers and other links are provided for tourists to participate in interaction.
Chimonanthus praecox "goes online", and the spring is getting stronger. A snowfall added scenery and interest to the newly released wintersweet in the municipal park. The Summer Palace, Fragrant Hill, National Botanical Garden (North Garden), Taoran Pavilion, Yuyuan Pool and other parks continue to welcome tourists who are "looking for wintersweet in the snow".
This weekend, various indoor flower exhibitions also came in a stream. Xiangshan Park has arranged a winter jasmine exhibition in the Pine Forest Restaurant, combining camellias, azaleas, peonies, osmanthus, kumquats, orchids, etc. with originality. Zhongshan Park replaced the flowers of Tanghuawu, controlled the flowers with plum blossom, winter jasmine, azalea, crabapple, elm leaf plum and other florescence, matched with seasonal boutique flowers such as cinnabar, hybrid cymbidium, and North American holly to set off the festive atmosphere of spring. Beihai Park held the Futian Flower Rain Spring Festival Flower Arrangement Exhibition, using bottles, plates, baskets, vats, tubes and other flower vessels, as well as flowers and plant materials that symbolize beauty to decorate the east and west side halls of the third entrance courtyard of Chanfu Temple, showing the charm of traditional oriental flower arrangement art. Zizhuyuan Park held the Lantern Festival Exhibition of Flower Art, and at the same time, it appreciated the flower arrangement works in the form of lectures to explain the traditional Chinese flower arrangement customs to the audience online.
There are more festival folk custom experiences waiting for tourists to unlock on site. The Temple of Heaven Park launched the science popularization activity of "auspicious dragons offering auspicious lanterns and illuminating blessings". Tourists can guess riddles and make lanterns offline. They can also enjoy the online performance of "Palace Music Accompanies You to Celebrate the New Year" series "Ancient Rhyme and Music" to feel the charm of traditional music. Jingshan Park New Year Cultural Creativity and Food Market will continue to the Lantern Festival, gathering Jingshan New Year Cultural Creativity, Grass made Intangible Cultural Heritage, Beijing cuisine, creative beauty, cultural creation of the zodiac and other "national trends".
Yuyuantan Park will hold the theme activity of "jade" seeing "music pavilion". Tourists can watch exhibitions, watch shadow puppets, listen to drums, smell plum blossoms, cut window flowers, draw facial makeup, make lanterns, write couplets, arrange flower buckets, and shoot arrows, throw pots, guess lantern riddles, challenge ancient poetry and other traditional games. Zizhuyuan Park will carry out activities such as flying order, throwing pot, guessing lantern riddles, folk music performance, etc. in Youxian Mountain Hall. Taoranting Park will recruit tourists and families to get together for a "sugar" to experience the traditional folk fun of sugar painting.
Beijing Zoo will invite tourists to experience the handicraft of intangible cultural heritage at the Science Popularization Plaza to send holiday blessings to tourists. The National Botanical Garden (North Garden) has different types of riddles at the cultural and creative flagship store, Qinpu Learning Workshop, and Solar Life Hall, providing lottery activities such as window decorations and consumer discount coupons. The Chinese Garden Museum will carry out rich experience activities such as window paper cutting, waxberry kneading, Jiujiu cold relief map, bookmark making, ancient wood works, traditional fragrance culture, etc. in areas such as Creative Arts Workshop and Chunyu Hall. (Dai Lili)
