A boy pointed towards the Lantern, as he took in his arms his grandmother at a market in Nanjing Confucian Temple, Jiangsu Province, China, Friday (22/2). The Lantern Festival, which falls on 24 February this year, the 15th day of the Chinese calendar and marked the end of the Spring Festival.(REUTERS/China Daily)Beijing (Reuters)-China on Sunday night glitters with light lanterns and Fireworks. The festivities to mark the end of the Chinese new year celebrations 2013 or known as Cap Go Meh di Indonesia.
Fireworks ignited in almost all regions of China, including Beijing to enliven the new year 2013 a new running two weeks according to the Chinese calendar.
Sound of loud Fireworks look and sound bersahut-sahutan since Sunday afternoon. Like the Cap Go Meh, also displayed the attractions of lion dance, dragon dance in some parts of China.
Not only that according to tradition, every Cap Go Meh celebration marked by the Festival of Lanterns, each family also offer dumplings of glutinous rice sweet named Yuanxiao. Therefore, Cap Go Meh celebration also known as celebration of Yuanxiao.
Residents enjoyed a final day of Chinese new year celebrations together with family, relatives, friends, and good friend to enjoy a show, both in shopping centres and tourist attractions.
In Longtan Park Beijing, people enjoy the glitter of a number of lanterns that are in place at a number of points in the Park, complete with interesting attractions.
So too in the city of Jinan, Shandong province. The community gathered in the garden of Baotu Spring. It looks a number of lanterns decorate some buildings and trees in the garden.
A number of lanterns also designed with various shapes and placed along the river which Cascades over the garden.
The arrival of the Chinese new year has always been celebrated for the past two weeks. In 2013, the Chinese new year falls on a Sunday (10/2). After the week-long national holiday, held a week later Cap Go Meh celebration was held to mark the end of the celebration of the arrival of the new year with a variety of attractions, and the tradition inherited by Han Dynasty and Song dynasty.
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