Eating Free Glutinous Rice Balls and Enjoying Beautiful Lanterns during Jinsha Sun Festival

Release Time: 2017-10-24

Feb. 24, 2013 was the date to celebrate Chinese traditional Lantern Festival. Chengdu locals went out one after another to celebrate the festival. The Jinsha Sun Festival, which still went on in the Jinsha Site Museum, attracted many people’s attention. Within the museum, there were red plum and Chinese flowering crabapple blossoming and sending forth a delicate fragrance. Crowded visitors enjoyed the beauty with sunlight shining upon. On the competition of eating glue pudding, there was a lot of fun. At 18: 00, the lights were on. The organizer of the festival made 89 colorful and exquisite lighting sets and more than 1,000 luminous sculptures of Jinsha cultural relics. And the organizer also used more than 70 thousand of lights that guided the visitors to make this whole museum shiny and dreamlike. The last ancient Shu Kingdom sacrificial rite of this festival started with the drumbeat as the background music.

The night of Lantern Festival is the first full-moon night in Chinese lunar calendar. Eating glutinous rice balls and enjoying beautiful lanterns are populous traditional folk activities among the Chinese. Yesterday, the organizer of this festival arranged more performances to be performed on the three stages continuously. On the main stage, there were fancy dances, close-up magic, wonderful acrobatics, interactive games, original opuscula; on the folk stage there were Peking opera, Sichuan opera, hand shadow, hand magic, puppetry and other original folk customs, which brought the visitors happiness and enjoyment; on the stage called Perfect Couple, there were Chinese style wedding show, presenting the wedding culture such as wedding ceremony in Han Dynasty encouraging the destined couples to know each other, to love each other. Besides, there were Sichuan comedian Feng Jie entertaining the visitors and interesting riddle-guessing activities, Miss China—Wang Qian throwing the ball made of strips of silk and other jubilant activities. Visitors were attracted and participated in those activities. This festival will continue to Feb. 28, 2013.