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Monday 15 January 2024

Chinese Lantern Festival - The Year of the Dragon - 2024

 Welcome everyone to the Year of the Dragon - allbeit slightly early. But on Saturday night we visited the Chinese Lantern Festival in our International Friendship Garden. 

The Lantern Festival aims to promote reconciliation, peace, and forgiveness. The holiday marks the first full moon of the new lunar year and the end of the Chinese New Year. 

Chūn Jié, in China, marks the beginning of the Spring season. The Chinese Lantern Festival ( 元宵节 Yuán Xiāo Jié ) marks the final day of these celebrations. The lanterns symbolise people letting go of the past year and welcoming the new year with good fortune.

2024 is the year of Dragon based on Chinese zodiac. It's the year of wood dragon starting from Feb.10, 2024 to Jan.28, 2025. The Dragon is the fifth in the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac signs. The Years of the Dragon include 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024...

Chinese Dragon is an imaginary animal, also the only fictitious creature in the 12 zodiac animals, which is composed of 9 animals, including the body of a snake, the horns of a deer, the head of an ox, the mouth of a crocodile, the claws of an eagle, and the scales of a fish. The Dragon enjoys a very high reputation in Chinese culture and it represents auspiciousness and imperial power since ancient times.

Chinese people regard themselves as descendants of the Chinese dragon and emperors entitled themselves exclusively as the 'dragon'. It is the token of authority, dignity, honor, success, luck, and capacity.  Chinese Zodiac

The personality traits of people born in the year of the dragon are: charismatic, intelligent, confident, powerful and they are naturally lucky and gifted. In everything that they do, they tend to do it to the best of their ability with high standards.

The image of the dragon dance below is from our Multi-Cultural Festival in 2020. 


Part of the Lantern Festival was the Chinese Wishing Tree where we were invited to write our dreams onto red paper and hang them from the tree. Experience the tradition of hope and abundance and let the Chinese Wishing Tree grant your wishes and usher in a year filled with blessings

Chinese wishing trees, money trees, and hong bao trees are a big part of Chinese New Year festivities. People toss their red ribbons up into the wishing tree with hope that it will stick and their wish will come true for good fortune in the coming year.

Over the last few months community members and children have been making the lanterns

There was also Chinese dancing to enjoy. 

And two girls made spinning light sticks and danced with them to Chinese music. 


I hope you have enjoyed this little look at the Chinese Lantern Festival. It is wonderful living in a multi-cultural community. Have you been to a Chinese Festival? Perhaps you might like to tell us about it in your comments. 

What sign of the Chinese Zodiac are you? I am the Goat. 

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10 comments:

  1. Tamar SB15 January 2024 at 19:53

    Beautiful!!

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  2. roentare16 January 2024 at 04:08

    I used to enjoy seeing the lantern festival. A wonderful event eating lollies and seeing different large lights installations

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  3. NCSue16 January 2024 at 08:00

    I love going to Chinese Lantern Festivals - so colorful and joyful!
    Thank you for sharing at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2024/01/wandering-around-beautiful-city-of-metz.html

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  4. csuhpat116 January 2024 at 08:09

    Wow, so very beautiful.

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  5. magiceye16 January 2024 at 09:17

    Sure looks like fun. Lovely captures.

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  6. Rainbow Evening18 January 2024 at 12:23

    aww.... beautiful photos....and must be fun.
    Happy new year to you and yours

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  7. EricaSta18 January 2024 at 22:44

    Thank you for the nice comment. And of course I'm happy to return the favor. The pictures with the stories about the lantern festival make for informative and exciting reading. I really enjoyed your report again. I was particularly interested in the dances.

    Thank you for this wonderful post about
    MosaicMonday

    Warm hugs from Heidrun

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  8. Divya24 January 2024 at 12:30

    What fun it must have been to walk around looking at these lit up exhibits. I visited a lantern festival in the SF Bay Area over a decade ago and liked it. Seeing your pictures brought back memories. It also makes me wonder why I missed another one that was recently on, near where we are these days. :-/

    Thank you for sharing these images. :)

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  9. Pisi Prkl25 January 2024 at 01:17

    Very nice low light photography! Interesting festival.

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  10. Lillian "sognafaret"27 January 2024 at 04:52

    Lightning up the night

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