Our country's traditional festival, the Spring Festival, is coming, and lantern festivals from all over the country are also on stage. The most famous one is the Nanjing Qinhuai Lantern Festival, which is known as the "World's No. 1 Lantern Festival" and the "Qinhuai Lantern Festival is the best in the world". It has been celebrated in the Lunar New Year (January 17 of the Gregorian calendar). The lights are brightly lit up in Bailuzhou Park on the banks of the Qinhuai River, with the theme of "Lighting Jinling·Dream of a Well-off Society".

The Qinhuai Lantern Festival has a very long history. As early as the Southern Dynasties, Nanjing, the capital, had the custom of holding traditional Lantern Festival Lantern Festival. Its grand occasion was the highest in the country and it was also the earliest Lantern Festival in China. The Qinhuai Lantern Festival, also known as the Jinling Lantern Festival or the Confucius Temple Lantern Festival, is held once a year and is mainly held during the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival every year. It is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage and the only one in China integrating a light show, a lantern festival and a light market. The large-scale comprehensive lantern festival is also the longest-lasting, largest number of participants and largest folk lantern festival in China.

According to local friends, the Qinhuai Lantern Festival is a way to express people's good wishes and life pursuits through various forms such as hanging lanterns, hanging lanterns, enjoying lanterns, playing with lanterns, and making lanterns. After being restored in 1985, it is held once a year, and every year There are new themes and new innovations, integrating new technologies and culture into the Lantern Festival and keeping pace with the times.

Yu Fan happened to be visiting Nanjing recently, so he had the honor to witness the lighting ceremony of the Qinhuai Lantern Festival and photographed many beautiful lantern festival works in Bailuzhou Park. Among the many lighting works, there is a group of lighting works that is particularly popular. Almost every tourist will take photos here when they pass by, which left a very deep impression on me. This group of photos is a lighting with the theme of love and marriage.

This is a large-scale light group, which is divided into many small themes. Among them, the theme of the wedding period is the most story. From the 10-year tin wedding to the 70-year platinum wedding, there are very vivid images displayed.

For example, the golden marriage in the picture above has not many 50 years in life. It is very rare for two people to go through 50 years together. Calling a 50-year marriage a golden marriage shows that a 50-year marriage is like gold, which is not only precious, but also shows that the relationship between the two is stronger than gold.

The 60-year diamond marriage is even more rare than the golden marriage. It lasted for sixty years, and it was a witness of sixty years of love. At this time, the two people were at least eighty years old, helping each other to the old age and celebrating together.

After 70 years of platinum marriage, New China has just celebrated its 70th birthday. If you get married just after its establishment, 70 years of ups and downs will test not only their feelings, but also their health.

This series of lights is neither the largest nor the brightest at the Qinhuai Lantern Festival, but it is the most popular at the scene. Almost every tourist who passes by will stop here to watch and even take photos.

In a unique way, the Qinhuai Lantern Festival objectively displays the simple voice of the people calling for truth, goodness and beauty. It also reflects the beliefs, customs, cultural interests and aesthetic concepts of the people of Nanjing. The yearning for love must be the common aspiration of every adult. Whether it is the elite students on university campuses or the elderly who have been together for their lives, everyone has a wish for love. Therefore, it is not unreasonable that this group of love and marriage lights at the Qinhuai Lantern Festival can be so popular. In addition, this year is 2020, and its homophonic is "Love You, Love You". Everyone hopes to gain beautiful love in the new year by watching such light sets.