CHINESE LANTERN

The Dragon Lights Chinese lantern festival is debuting in the Biggest Little City for a five-week exhibition this summer.The lantern festival will take over the Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park from June 30 to August 5.Dragon Lights Reno is an international touring festival of enlightening exhibitions that provide a globally-cultural experience to millions of guests around the world.

Lanterns are traditional handicrafts of China. Colored lantern is a type of comprehensive and decorative art of lantern. Speaking of lantern show across the country, people always regard Zigong (a city in Sichuan Province) Lantern Show as the best. Well, people in Yunnan will also be able to appreciate spectacular Zigong lantern show as it is confirmed that the show will be staged in the World Horticultural Expo Garden of Yunnan from Jan. 25 to Mar. 25, 2018.

Two exhibitions dedicated to China: an exhibition of giant luminous lanterns and another exhibition of Chinese masks named

Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This is the first full moon of the new year, symbolizing unity and perfection. Lantern Festival is an important part of Spring Festival , and marks the official end of the long holiday.

Paper lanterns, originating from Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), mainly were used as lamps in ancient China. A variety of crafts were used in their making such as Chinese paintings, paper-cutting, and pricking and seaming and many kinds of materials such as bamboo, wood, wheat-straw and metal were used in their manufacture. Paper and silk were the major materials.