Beijing 4K - Walk in Old Summer Palace on Lantern Festival - China 中国北京圆明园元宵节灯会夜游行走视频

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The Lantern Festival or the Spring Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar. Usually falling in February or early March on the Gregorian calendar, it marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Year celebrations. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE-CE 25), it had become a festival with great significance. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns.
In ancient times, the lanterns were fairly simple, and only the emperor and noblemen had large ornate ones. In modern times, lanterns have been embellished with many complex designs. For example, lanterns are now often made in the shape of animals. The lanterns can symbolize the people letting go of their past selves and getting new ones, which they will let go of the next year. The lanterns are almost always red to symbolize good fortune.
The festival acts as an Uposatha day on the Chinese calendar. It should not to be confused with the Mid-Autumn Festival; which is sometimes also known as the "Lantern Festival" in locations such as Singaporeand Malaysia. The Lantern Festival has also become popular in Western countries, especially in cities with a large Chinese community. In London, the Magical Lantern Festival is held annually.
he Old Summer Palace, known in Chinese as Yuanming Yuan , and originally called the Imperial Gardens , was a complex of palaces and gardens in present-day Haidian District, Beijing, China. It is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) northwest of the walls of the former Imperial City section of Beijing. Constructed throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Old Summer Palace was the main imperial residence of Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty and his successors, and where they handled state affairs; the Forbidden City was used for formal ceremonies. Widely perceived as the pinnacle work of Chinese imperial garden and palace design, the Old Summer Palace was known for its extensive collection of gardens, its building architecture and numerous art and historical treasures. It was reputed as the "Garden of Gardens" in its heyday.
In 1860, during the Second Opium War, as the Anglo-French expedition force relentlessly approached Beijing, two British envoys, a journalist for The Times and a small escort of British and Indian troopers were sent to meet Prince Yi under a flag of truce to negotiate a Qing surrender. Meanwhile, the French and British troops reached the palace and conducted extensive looting and destruction. Later on, as news emerged that the negotiation delegation had been imprisoned and tortured, resulting in 20 deaths, the British High Commissioner to China, Lord Elgin, retaliated by ordering the complete destruction of the palace, which was then carried out by British troops. The palace was so large - covering more than 800 acres - that it took 4000 men 3 days of burning to destroy it. Many exquisite artworks - sculptures, porcelain, jade, silk robes, elaborate textiles, gold objects and more - were stolen and are now found in 47 museums around the world, according to UNESCO.

[@alistairrazi7303]

Colourful Beijing at night!

[@zhubajie6940]

Saw Yuanming Yuan in spring of 2016. It is so big but pretty in spring. So sorry this year (2020) Lantern Festival will be a little subdued. Enjoy some Tang Yuan at home and hope for things to improve soon.

[@CHNView]

谢谢！祝您万事如意！

[@SieHandz]

nice vidio

[@Birdsfly11]

Visited Yuanmingyuan park back in April 2013.

[@jiahuanhe6488]

能加个微信吗

[@weizhang2834]

哥们儿，你做的很好！尽管现在没那么多人看，但随着时间推移，世界人民觉醒，会有越来越多的人注意中国。去年中国出境游1.62亿/年，入境中国外国游客around5000万/年(不包括港澳台），严重的旅游逆差。而巴黎一个城市的年入境游就超过全中国的入境游，可见西方在全球妖魔化中国的影响深远，导致中国的软实力远低于其他西方国家。

[@CHNView]

谢谢兄弟鼓励，我会继续努力。
我去过巴黎，刚去的时候确实挺有新鲜感，毕竟是艺术之都，但是呆了几天就有点受不了了，电脑上看到的都是表面光鲜，实际上简直是藏污纳垢之地。
从巴黎飞回北京，飞机落地，我再一次踏上祖国的土地的时候，激动得差点哭了，那种感觉，没有对比就永远不知道自己的家有多好。
然后我从机场直奔饭馆，一个人就吃了两份菜，一份宫保鸡丁，一份农家小炒肉，太踏马的爽了。

[@weizhang2834]

Cam看世界 是的，如果你生活一年，并且在西方工作谋生，会反差更大，中国的好只有出来才会知道。而且中国人有更多的自由