During the Lantern Festival, various parts of our province will carry out colorful cultural travel activities

Watch performances, appreciate intangible heritage, taste folk customs. This year's Lantern Festival, our province has prepared a rich and colorful "cultural dinner", all kinds of wonderful cultural travel activities will be held one after another, to create a strong festive atmosphere, so that tourists spend a lively and happy traditional festival.

Sanya: People celebrate the Lantern Festival

On February 8, the series of activities to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Sanya with the theme of "Dazzling Hainan Island and celebrating the Chinese New Year in Sanya" kicked off in Dadonghai Square. The event integrates artistic performances, art exhibitions, intangible cultural heritage display and island cruise, bringing a cultural feast integrating traditional culture and modern creativity to the citizens and tourists. The event will last until February 12.

An interactive experience area was also set up at the event site, where citizens and tourists were invited to participate and feel the unique charm of traditional folk culture. The "Sanya Memory" photography exhibition, which is carried out simultaneously, showcases the historical changes and development achievements of Sanya through 100 selected works, and evokes people's beautiful memories of the city. In addition, the "Hi to Spring" street concert was staged in Dadonghai Square, bringing a casual and romantic musical journey for citizens and tourists.

"My New Year is up to me" art gallery activities, they invited artists from all over the country to gather in Sanya, set up classes in the seaside art gallery, art performances. Citizens and tourists can learn skills, taste art, and feel the unique charm of traditional Chinese culture. At the same time, they also held a cultural and creative New Year goods Festival, launched decoupage, sugar painting, hairdressing, Hanfu, Li brocade, Li pottery and other intangible cultural heritage fashion games, so that tourists can experience the unique charm of intangible cultural heritage in the experience of traditional skills.

It is reported that on the afternoon of February 12 (the 15th day of the first month), the Hainan Island Parade will be the grand opening of the event. Take the spirit snake as the "Spring Festival messenger" and conduct an interactive parade around Dadonghai Square. During the parade, there will be wonderful performances such as the God of Wealth, Li nationality dance, fairy parade, etc., to send New Year wishes to the public and tourists.

Danzhou: Fun activities to celebrate the festival

"Celebrate the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Snake, Happy Reunion" Danzhou Lantern Festival 2025 will be held in Danzhou Culture Square from February 11 to 12. Danzhou music, folk performance, lantern riddles, pot throwing, archery and other exciting activities will bring residents and visitors fun experience of the Lantern Festival.

It is understood that the garden party site set up a number of areas. The New Year Food Banquet area will bring together a variety of delicacies, not only Danzhou local snacks, but also delicious dishes from all over the country. In the stage performance area, local bands and singers will give wonderful performances, and Danzhou singing performance will also take the stage to show the enthusiastic spirit of Danzhou people. The game area is also not to be missed, guessing lantern riddles, throwing POTS, archery and other games will add to the fun of the festival for the public visitors.

Danzhou Tourism and Culture Bureau official said that at present, the garden party preparations are in full force, they welcome visitors to come to enjoy wonderful performances, taste authentic food, participate in fun activities, to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

Qionghai: Colorful intangible heritage display lanterns

From the 13th to the 15th day of the first month, the Lantern Festival in Longjiang, Qionghai City will come as scheduled. During the event, activities such as traditional intangible cultural heritage Lantern exhibition, "Peach Blossom Story" theme exhibition, Peach Blossom Dream Adventure Show will be held to allow visitors to experience colorful intangible cultural heritage at close range.

The Lantern Festival custom in Longjiang Town is an intangible cultural heritage that has been passed down for hundreds of years. It began in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and flourished in the Qing and Republic of China periods. It is an important folk traditional cultural activity in Longjiang. On January 2, 2024, the Lantern Festival custom of Longjiang was included in the sixth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects list of Hainan Province.

It is reported that the traditional intangible heritage Lantern exhibition activity is based on the concept of "carrying on the past", which is divided into three parts: lantern opening, lantern display and lantern parade. They will dig deep into the intangible cultural heritage of the Lantern Festival in Longjiang, vividly presenting the century-old lantern culture of Longjiang Town.

In addition, this year's Longjiang Lantern Festival will open the Peach Blossom National Style Garden, set up a number of interactive experience areas such as garden collection, lantern riddles, temple fairs, lantern production, Hanfu costume change, children's playground, so that tourists of different ages can participate in it, understand the cultural connotation behind Longjiang lantern, so that intangible cultural heritage in the new era with new vitality.

During the event, the town will set up a number of small stages, dance, singing, magic, juggling and other performances in different streets and different times. And they will use the Longjiang Lantern Festival, combined with Qionghai consumer promotion activities, to carry out products such as automobiles, mobile phones, home appliances and other consumer promotion activities. (Reporters Liu Jie, Wu Xinyi and Chen Ziyi)