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Anren Celebrates Lantern Festival

2016-02-25

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As you can see from above image, villagers of Furong village, Longhai town, Anren county were celebrating the Lantern Festival. Dragon lantern show, walking on stilts, and some other activities were held in the county. It was introduced that the dragon lantern show has been lasting for over 600 years in Furong village. Two teams named Dragon and Phoenix which consist of young males and females will perform the dragon dances on the day of Lantern Festival. In the evening of that day, villagers will weave straw dragons and stick some joss sticks on the dragon bodies. Then, all adults and children visited the families along with the joss stick dragon and deliver sticks to them to make best wishes of the new year.