Celebrated lantern show heads to Paris

The celebrated lantern show in Shanghai's Yuyuan Garden, a staple in the city's Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations for 28 years, will be held in Paris, France for the first time from Dec 15 to Feb 25. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]

The setting in the Parisian garden will present some of the most iconic structures of the Yuyuan Garden, such as the Jiuqu Qiao, or "the Bridge of Nine-Turning" and Huxin Ting, a floating pavilion surrounded by a pond, and combine them with imagery of the iconic water lilies by the great French impressionism artist Claude Monet, Chen said.

The Yuyuan Garden Lantern Show in Paris will be part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France in 2024, which is also the China-France Year of Culture and Tourism. The exhibition will span 72 days, covering the Christmas holiday to the Lantern Festival, which is 15 days after the Chinese New Year Day, said Ni Qiang, president of the company.