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Chinese Lantern Festival 2018

元宵节 2018

  One of the prettiest Chinese festivals, in my opinion -- the Chinese Lantern Festival (in Chinese 元宵节, pinyin: yuán xiāo jié). It's also known as Shangyuan Festival (上元节) and some other names, but it's not so important. The important now are the fresh photos, which I'm eager to share with you as fast as I can . Here we go:
 Photos from 02. 03. 2018's evening, Haikou, South China:
 1/ , -- fireworks and moon. -- another photograph with a pretty moon.

 2/ -- some of the traditional and semi-traditional Chinese lanterns on a small street.

 3/ -- a bigger crowded street with many lights on the trees.

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 5/ -- lanterns and traditional Chinese paintings, and calligraphy.

 6/ -- modern lanterns and toys with lights. There is one toy-dog-lantern (the year of the dog, you know). For sale. -- another kind of dog-lantern -- more traditional one.

 7/ -- lights, lanterns, fountains, Chinese people... and -- more people, crowded streets.

 8/ -- semi-traditional rotating lantern and some other lanterns (a blurry pic).

 9/ -- simple paper lanterns on a tree.

 10/ -- these are one of my favorite kinds of lanterns. I think they're pretty, attractive and even romantic.

 11/ , -- more different, beautiful lanterns.
 There are even fish-lanterns in some Chinese places.

 And a popular Lantern festival food: small sweet dumplings ("yuan xiao" or "tang yuan"/"tangyuan" (simplified Chinese: 汤圆; traditional Chinese: 湯圓; pinyin: tāngyuán; literally: "soup ball"). It is a Chinese dessert made from glutinous rice flour mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and then cooked and served in boiling water or sweet syrup) -- a home-made one: .