As the saying goes, “After the Lantern Festival, it’s only after the New Year”. This year, Qingdao’s Lantern Festival activities are exciting and unusuals. Take this super comprehensive Lantern Festival activity guide, and we invite you to enjoy the Lantern Festival in Qingdao！
Shinan District
During the Spring Festival, Tian Hou Palace Xin Zheng Folk Culture Temple Fair is bustling with excitement and continues on the Lantern Festival day with Lantern Festival riddle quiz, folk craft making experience, martial arts acrobatics and other activities to celebrate the Lantern Festival with the public visitors.
On the occasion of the Lantern Festival, Qingdao Library will hold lectures and exhibitions, portrait tiles, folk music concerts and DIY activities through online and offline channels under the theme of “Our Festival - Lantern Festival”, so that everyone can celebrate the Lantern Festival with the fragrance of books.
Shibei District
During the Lantern Festival, a lantern viewing tour - Dabaodao Lantern Festival Parade will be held along Haipo Road, where citizens and visitors can come to enjoy the lanterns and take pictures. In addition, there are special activities such as lantern riddle quiz, Chinese costume parade and lantern viewing tour.
There is a Lantern Festival in Textile Valley, you can not only experience the super folk market, lantern fair, riddle-guessing, ancient Chinese costume, water lanterns, romantic and beautiful water show activities, there is also a large cute rabbit air model landing in Textile Valley, adding another surprise for the Year of the Rabbit!
During the Spring Festival, the fireworks of Taidong return, and the second lantern festival, joyful Tangqiu Fair, and Intangible Cultural Heritage handicraft skill demonstration are very popular. During the Lantern Festival, there are more exciting activities coming, such as the lantern competition and the riddle-guessing activity.
Licang District
On the day of the Lantern Festival, the twenty-ninth “LiCang Spring” Lantern Festival will be held in the ground square of Weekly Star City. The festival will feature beautiful ancient scenes, immersive experiences, lanterns, riddles, and folklore, and a festive atmosphere with new and interesting national treasures.
On the 15th day of the first lunar month, Rockcity invited 15 musicians from Qingdao Philharmonic to present a Lantern Festival concert. In this festival, bring your whole family together to listen to a concert.
Laoshan District
2023 Lantern Festival, come to Qingdao Municipal Museum to join a colorful and interesting lantern DIY activity to bring you the charm of traditional lanterns.
West Coast New Area of Qingdao
From the fourth to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Langya Terrace Scenic Area continues to carry out special blessing activities with a festive atmosphere. In order to welcome the Lantern Festival, many red lanterns were hung at the bamboo forest of Duojiaogou, and each lantern was marked with a lantern riddle underneath for the visitors passing by to participate in the activities.
The New Year Lantern Festival activities in Golden Beach Beer City is continuing, with a bazaar of everything, a marine-themed lantern show, an ice sculpture pavilion, and other hot items, as well as a gorgeous fireworks display and drone show on the day of the Lantern Festival.
On the day of the Lantern Festival, science teachers will teach children to make animal “exclusive yuanxiao”. The raw materials used to make the animal-specific yuanxiao are strictly screened, and the corresponding ingredients are selected according to the different habits and nutritional structure of each animal. After they are made, they are brought to each animal house and given to the animals for consumption, so that the animals can also enjoy a sumptuous Lantern Festival.
Chengyang District
On the 15th day of the first lunar month, the performance of the 28th Folk Art Festival of Chengyang District will be held in Zhengyang Middle Road. In addition to more than 100 folk custom programs and intangible cultural heritage performances, this time it also set up five sections, namely, intangible cultural heritage fair, China-Chic show, Liuqiang grand stage, and dream Kingdom theme parade.
During the Spring Festival, Qingdao Fantawild opened the night venue for 15 consecutive days and launched the unique Fantawild Chinese Year activities. Experience the extreme romance of Chinese festivals in the colorful fireworks, and feel the vitality and fashion of the park in the interesting projects.
Jimo District
This Lantern Festival, the Qingdao Intangible Cultural Heritage Beiyang Dragon Dance Team will hold a grand dragon dance performance with local and folk characteristics at the Baohu outdoor racetrack, providing a wonderful folk feast for tourists.
From the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, all kinds of surprises in the ancient city of Jimo followed! In addition to the Spring Festival temple fair, lantern fair, light show, there are also performances such as Jimo Liuqiang, Jimo Yangge, lion dance and dragon dance, auspicious rabbit, god of wealth blessing parade, county government sitcom performance, folk ballad playing.
Jiaozhou City
“Going to the temple fair in the Spring Festival is the most popular Chinese new year activity”. We meet at the 13th Jiaozhou Sugar Ball Fair. There is a festive atmosphere, delicious food, and wonderful folk performances, which make you feel happy every day.
At the 2023 Lantern Show in Dagu River Resort, 62 groups of colorful lanterns with 40 themes were in full bloom, lightening the entire Shaohainan Lake. The lantern in the Confucius Six Arts Cultural Park is as bright as the daylight. The lantern extends from left to right based on the image of Confucius. It is full of festive and peaceful atmosphere.
Pingdu City
During the Lantern Festival, the Pingdu Library will present you with an experience activity of wearing Hanfu, guessing lantern riddles, appreciating traditional Chinese paintings, and tasting Song-style culture. Citizens can experience the culture of the Song Dynasty in activities such as incense burning, tea tasting, painting hanging, and piano playing.
The Lantern Festival has a super strong feeling of the new year. It makes the Lantern Festival happy, shines the Spring Festival fairy tale night, and Andersen's fairy tale park ends the New Year carnival from morning to night. Wonderful activities such as fairy tale lantern riddles, grand and gorgeous castle fireworks show, and the Lantern Festival DIY continued to be online.
Laixi City
The launching ceremony of the 21st Yuehu Lake Culture and Art Festival and the 36th Lantern Festival Yangge float parade are coming!
Feel the fancy dragon dance and happy Yangge in the street. The scene is full of festive atmosphere. There are puppet shows and percussion music, and the Lantern Festival is in full swing.
Doumian Lantern is a provincial intangible cultural heritage in Shandong, which has been circulating in Jiaodong for a long time. It is the festival responsibility of the Northern Lantern Festival. In the Jiaodong Huamo Cultural Museum, there is a Doumian lantern exhibition in progress for us to find the memory of the childhood.
At this moment, the festival atmosphere in Qingdao has been in place. Please put away this Lantern Festival strategy, and set out on the weekend to end the Spring Festival together!
(By Fan Ying/Yuan Yu)
