"Welcome to Chinese New Year" (Picture provided by Chongqing Garden Expo Park)

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Do you want to spend a happy Chinese New Year in Chongqing Garden Expo Park? During the Spring Festival, Chongqing Garden Expo Park will hold the first Spring Festival Folk Culture Festival with the theme of “sharing folk customs and happy journey”. It has 10 major activities, 10 major folk customs. Have a happy holiday.

Elaborate Han Chinese Clothing show (Picture provided by Chongqing Garden Expo Park)

The exhibition of intangible cultural heritage shows Bayu customs in Chongqing Garden Expo Park

In order to make citizens and tourists feel the most original folk culture of the mountain city, in this spring festival activity, the Garden Expo Park invited Intangible Cultural Heritage teams with local characteristics to perform in the park. From the first day to the sixth day of the first month of Chinese lunar new year, intangible cultural heritage projects such as “Wansheng Golden Bridge Blowing”, “Banan Mudong Folk Song”, “Youyang Waving Dance” and “Miao Bamboo Pole Dance” will appear in the centralized manner, so that visitors can feel the most primitive folk customs of Bayu.

At the same time, in order to increase the interactive viewing, the Garden Expo Park also launched the “Strongest Folk Custom Grandstand” in the open-air theater. At that time, there will be “pedaling skill”, “top skill” and folk songs and dances of Bayu, which are brought by professional performance teams, to enable tourists to enjoy a visual feast with the most traditional folk culture.

The abundant activities make the Garden Expo Park a good place for the public to spend Spring Festival. (Picture provided by Chongqing Garden Expo Park)

To watch grand opera and enjoy traditional fine food

"Lion dance and dragon dance" have a long history of folk performance, which is an inherent "highlight" for the Spring Festival of Chinese New Year in Chongqing Garden Expo Park Garden. For this Spring Festival, the park invited professional performance teams to come to the park. In the form of fixed-point performance and garden tour, a wonderful "Tongliang Dragon Dance" was launched in the Main Square and the East Gate Square.

During the Spring Festival in the park, you can not only visit and watch operas, but also enjoy traditional fine food. From the Chinese New Year’s Eve to the 6th of the lunar New Year, the "District And County Characteristic Food Culture Exhibition" created by the Garden Expo Park in combination with ancient culture will meet with tourists. You can not only enjoy the handicrafts made by folk artists, such as dough sculpture, sugar man, cotton candy, etc., but also enjoy 28 special snacks from Chongqing, such as Xiushan rice tofu, Pengshui potato, Fengdu spicy chicken, Wanzhou pickled pepper squid, Fuling oil mash, etc.

Peony, phalaenopsis and other 80,000 pots of winter jasmine will be exhibited. (Picture provided by Chongqing Garden Expo Park)

Flowers in the park greet the Spring Festival

Flowers blossom in spring. "New Year Flower Show" is also one of the highlights of Chongqing Garden Expo Park. From January 25 to 30, 80,000 pots of flowers will be displayed in the Main Square and Exhibition Hall of Chongqing Garden Expo Park, allowing visitors to experience the “colorful” spring in advance in the Garden Expo Park. 

In addition, the Garden Expo Park has also built a large Spring Festival lantern group with the theme of the Year of the Rat at the main gate and the east gate. More than 6,000 red lanterns are hung in the park, adding a beautiful scene to the festival in the Garden Expo Park. (Translated by Luo Juan, Fathom Language Limited)