Big Chinese lanterns in Zigong Lantern Festival 2025
In all kinds of light festivals all round the world, people always be attracted by big Chinese lanterns, it seems like the big Chinese lanterns can best represent gorgeous and superb skills, and the small lanterns look insignificant. Human being always have stereotypes about everything in the world, such as snake.
In Western mythology, snakes are often given a sinister metaphor.
The stories of Medusa in Greek mythology, who cursed the earth with her snakehead, and the serpent in the Garden of Eden, who lured humans to swallow the fruit of wisdom, solidified the serpent as a symbol of evil and depravity. However, in the Chinese mythology snake always connect with the god of creation, it seems that the ancient Chinese regarded the snake as a totem of the gods. But in reality, snakes are still creatures to be avoided.
Human stereotypes etched an indelible evil label on the snake, until the art of Chinese lights gave it a new look. Chinese lantern is a extremely creative traditional Chinese art, committed to break the stereotypes from human being, entrust new look to everything in the world. In the world of lantern artwork, snake lanterns could be cute lanterns or beautiful lanterns, no matter the big Chinese lanterns or small Chinese lanterns, they all habe their own unique charms. Especially in this new year, the year of the snake in the Chinese lunar calendar, Chinese snake lanterns appear in the celecration activities all round the country.
Zigong lantern Fair is the biggest and best new year light festival in China. On the Zigong Lantern Fair, there are many kinds of lanterns and the scale of the lantern show is huge. It has 7 theme area, 12 big Chinese lanterns, 7 large Chinese lantern lights and more than 200 smaller Chinese lanterns, appear more than million tourists to travel in this small city to enjoy Chinese lanterns and celebrate Chinese new year.
Snake of lantern
The most eye-catching “Qingcheng Shuangshu” lantern group of the Zigong Lantern Fair in 2024 is precisely this modern expression of the worship of the spirit snake. In the splendor of the millennium salt capital, two eight meters high big Chinese lanterns fairies dance in the sky, they shed the traditional white snake legend of the supernatural temperament, with Dunhuang flying elegant fusion of modern aesthetic, so that the ancient snake god in the steel frame and silk reconstruction of time and space rebirth.
Two big Chinese Lanterns of snake in lantern festival
Now I am stopping to examine, this group of lantern art can be called the symphonic poem of technology and tradition. In front of, Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing stand side by side, Bai Suzhen lantern group 18 meters high, full body exudes a dignified and elegant temperament, she slightly side head, and beside 14 meters high Xiaoqing gaze at each other.
Their bodies are as beautiful as carefully crafted works of art, every curve is just right, as if they can dance with the wind. Bai Suzhen wore a white Hanfu dress, in the light of the light, like a flowing cloud, light and elegant. Xiaoqing is dressed in green clothes, clothes fluttering with the wind, like the fairies who are about to ride the wind, their faces are exquisite as if out of the painting, curved willow eyebrows, smart eyes, all lifelike, let people can not help but marvel at it.
The multimillion-yuan lantern set a record of more than 10,000 people watching in an hour on the night of the Yuan snack, and related topics were streamed more than 300 million times on Douyin, attracting millions of tourists from home and abroad. When the young tourists hold the snake candy painting to punch the clock under the “QingChengShuangShu” lantern, they may not realize that they are participating in a dialogue of civilizations spanning eight thousand years, and the Chinese civilization has always used the brightest light and shadow to continue to write the eternal praise of the spirit snake totem.
And the agile snake-shaped sugar painting, like a messenger of time, quietly tells ancient stories. Under the light, the sweetness of the sugar painting and the brilliance of the lanterns interweave, becoming a unique cultural symbol imprinted in the hearts of every participant.
This is not only a visual feast, but also a spiritual touch, so that people can still feel the pulse of ancient civilization in the modern prosperity, witness the endless growth and inheritance of Chinese culture and innovation, like the spirit snake totem, winding forward, never stop, blooming more dazzling light in the long river of time. It leads people to a more brilliant cultural future, which amazes the world and makes history remember.
