Wuwui New Year Carnival brings you a taste of Chinese New Year

News from this web(reporter Liyang) Watching lanterns, catching the market, enjoying non-heritage, looking for the taste of Chinese New Year during the Spring Festival holiday, Wuwei City South Park is a good place to go- 2024 Wuwei City’s First Joyful Lights Festival and the Second Folklore Cultural Festival- New Year Carnival Activities are in place.

According to reports, the activities of the "New Year Carnival" as the core, combined with the form of lantern light show, highlighting the Wuwei city night scenery and traditional cultural charms, to create a new Wuwei cultural attractions. Focusing on the mode of "New Year's Goods + Lantern Show", "New Year's Goods + Entertainment", "New Year's Goods + Light and Shadow" and "New Year's Goods + Non-heritage", it highlights the different themes of commerce and trade, culture, food and landscape of WUWE to create a gathering place for New Year's Goods. The event runs until 16 February (the seventh day of the first month).

During the event, famous local speciality products from various towns in Wuwei City and Wuwei Economic Development Zone were unveiled, which included not only traditional food production, speciality snacks bazaar, but also traditional skills performances such as paper-cutting and noodle-pinching; In addition, it also introduces diversified national trend elements, such as lantern viewing and Chinese costume parade, to meet the needs of different groups of tourists through "building platforms + thematic content + creation of scenarios"; ; arrange one to two special performances per day, such as children's cultural performances, musical instrument performances, village songs, square dances, etc.; and set up interactive programmes such as creative stamps, lantern riddles, pot throwing and photo card taking at netroots, bringing an immersive experience to the public.

The city of Wuwei has a long history and rich non-heritage resources with distinctive characteristics. There is also a non-heritage bazaar at the activity site, exhibiting and selling non-heritage products such as ticking ink gauze lanterns, Wuwei duck, Wuwei Li granny peanut rice, Wuwei send stove poop, etc., and at the same time carrying out non-heritage performances such as fish lanterns, LU theatre, folk songs, etc..

Translated by Xu Mingxi from FESCO Foreign Affairs Service Center of Anhui Province