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Holiday spirits carry on with Lantern Festival celebrations
Updated: 2018-03-05
The Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the 1st month of the Chinese lunar calendar, was celebrated in the southern city of Zhanjiang on March 2 with an array of lantern shows, quizes and folk art performances.
Students of Zhanjiang No 15 Primary School show off their self-made lanterns before using them to decorate the campus in celebration of the Lantern Festival. [Photo by Lin Shizhan/Zhanjiang Daily] |
Twenty troupes from the towns of Jinhe, Xiayang and Qianshan perform a folk art parade for over 100,000 people in celebration of the Lantern Festival. [Photo by Lang Shuchen/Zhanjiang Daily] |