Snake is the Chinese God of creation 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, the Chinese civilization has given the snake a completely different divine gene: from the Candle dragon, the creation god with a human face and a snake body in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, to the snake tail intertwined with Fuxi and Nvwa on the Han Dynasty portrait, the snake has always been a carrier of spiritual communication and life reproduction in Chinese culture.
While the West nailed the snake to the pillar of shame, the Chinese people embroidered it in the twelve chapters of the emperor’s clothes, cast Sanxingdui bronze divine tree, and finally evolved the human glory across races in the Legend of the White Snake.
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 snake 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.
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.
