Lantern Festival celebrations in Beijing

Lantern festival illuminates a Beijing neighbourhood
Beijing has hosted a lantern festival, with light installations in numerous shapes and colors. The event follows Chinese New Year celebrations. (AP video shot by: Wayne Zhang)
Festivities mark Lantern Festival across China
Celebrations for the Lantern Festival, which fell on Feb. 12 this year, took place across China, filling the country with a joyful atmosphere.
China: Lantern Festival celebrations in Beijing
Millions of Chinese celebrated on Wednesday the Lantern Festival, which marks the official end of the Spring Festival. The Lantern Festival is the main traditional festival in China and is celebrated on the 15th day of the new lunar year calendar,
Beijing residents on buying spree for traditional yuanxiao in celebration of Lantern Festival
The famed Jinfang Snacks Shop in downtown Beijing has seen its peak season for yuanxiao. The shop’s Ciqikou branch sold more than 25,000 kilograms of yuanxiao on Monday, and the amount is expected to surpass 35,
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Visitors look at a show held for the Lantern Festival during Yuanxiao, the fifteen day of the Lunar New Year in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/)
ICH celebrations light up Lantern Festival across China
With the upcoming Lantern Festival, which falls on Wednesday in 2025, cities across China are pulling out all the stops to celebrate it with a variety of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) festivities,
Two major lantern fairs held in Beijing to mark Lantern Festival
A child watches a light installation while visiting a lantern fair at Beijing Garden Expo Park in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 10, 2025. Two major lantern fairs are held in Beijing to mark the Lantern Festival, which falls on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
China: Lunar New Year festivities conclude with Lantern Festival
China celebrates Wednesday the Lantern Festival with bright red lanterns, called “huadeng”, which closes two weeks of festivities for the arrival of the Lunar New Year. The streets of Chinese cities celebrate the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month,
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Two major lantern fairs are held in Beijing to mark the Lantern Festival, which falls on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
Thousands in Taiwan and China celebrate the Lantern Festival with high hopes and rice dumplings
Thousands in Taiwan and China celebrated the Lantern Festival on Wednesday by releasing paper lanterns into the night sky, ...
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Pic story of traditional lantern maker in Beijing
Ma Haijie makes lanterns with traditional story patterns in Beijing, China on Feb. 10, 2025. Regarded as a symbol of ...
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The Lantern Festival: A cultural journey
During the Tang Dynasty (618–907), the Lantern Festival formally became a national-level celebration, with its origins in the Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220). As the Song Dynasty (960-1279) progressed, ...