The first Beijing South Spring Festival Fair held in Beijing

The first Beijing South Spring Festival Fair carries the theme of “New National Window, New Daxing” and expresses the wishes of spring blessings to the capital city and all China at large.（Photo by Ji Chunhong/Guangming Picture）

Lantern’s Day is also known as Shang Yuan Festival or Yuan Xi. It takes place on the 15th of January in the Chinese lunar calendar, which happens to be the full moon of the year and marks the very end of the Spring Festival. On the Lantern’ Day, people go out to appreciate the moon, play firework, guess riddles and eat sweet dumplings. In some places people play dragon lanterns, dragon dancing, stilted dancing, row dry boats and beat drums. In 2008, the Lantern’s Day was enlisted as one of the second batch National Intangible Culture Heritages.

13 traditional festive shows and intangible culture heritages. Festival shows are popular in China’s north and most of the performance teams are voluntarily organized by the locals. In this year’s performances, two are national intangible culture heritages and two are district-level intangible culture heritages.