Yu Garden Lantern Festival is parachuting directly into Paris!

📍 Address: Jardin d'Acclimatation
Bois de Boulogne, Rte de la Prte Dauphine a la Prte des Sablons, 75116 Paris

🎫 €18 for full fare, €12 for children aged 4-11 (go to Festival Dragon et Lanternes Paris to buy tickets online)

📅 Date: December 15, 2023 - February 25, 2024 (closed Monday and Tuesday)

🕐 Time: 18:00-22:00 (Last entry 21:15)

The year 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and France and is also the Year of Culture and Tourism between China and France. As a representative of Chinese folk culture, on the eve of 2024, the "Mountains and seas have Spirits" French Yu Garden Lantern Festival will be opened in the Paris Charm Garden, with 60 large lamp sets and more than 2,000 colorful lights from China lit at the same time. This is the first time that the national intangible heritage Yu Garden Lantern Fair was held across the country.

Family, I'm blown away! Domestic "mountains and seas have spirit" Yu Garden lantern will be moved directly to Paris! I, who has been in France for six years, was really moved!

With the theme of "Mountains and seas have Spirits" and the design blueprint of the Chinese literary classic "The Book of Mountains and Seas", the lantern fair combines traditional lantern production techniques with modern new media lighting technology to display the 2024 zodiac "dragon" lamp for visitors, and takes visitors through the grotesque mythical world depicted in the "The Book of Mountains and Seas" (nine-tailed fox, Zhongming Bird, Bi Fang, Taotie... The park will display 1000+ lanterns).

In addition, walking the Lantern Festival at night, you can also enjoy... Intangible cultural heritage skills, instrumental music, martial arts, dance and other Chinese folk customs and art performances, rich Chinese food, praying for the New Year God tree, I thought it was a small lantern fair before I went, thinking that Paris can have what lantern fair, not looking forward to it. When I got here, oh, my God! 🥹 isn't it the same as the feeling of the Lantern Festival in China! That's how it feels to be back home! It's exquisite and beautiful! It is true that it was parachuted directly from the country!

The Lantern Festival contains all the contents of Chinese culture! For example, the Chinese zodiac, Hanfu, New Year's Eve dinner, the Classic of Mountains and seas, poetry, lotus, Longmen, pavilions and attic... What a shock! I myself think super beautiful 🥹 foreign friends should be our Chinese culture to the United States!

The whole journey is a one-way circuit. The whole journey can be watched in about 20-30 minutes. There is a stage in the performance of dancing and changing faces. The number of lights on the scene is quite large and the forms are very diverse, which is richer than the pictures advertised on the Internet, and there are some simple introductions of Chinese culture.

I arrived after six o 'clock, people are super long queue, Chinese and locals are a lot, it is recommended to go to the wrong peak door after seven o 'clock when no one queued up, there is a ticket queue than the scene to buy a lot longer!

Shanghai fashion landmark BFC Bund Financial Center booth is very crowded! You can check it out! They parachuted into Paris from Shanghai! Here we will show you the limited works of the artist in the Year of the Dragon, which are both fashionable and Oriental aesthetic. Oriental aesthetics is really awesome!

In the end, there are several stalls to sell food, there are Nanxiang Xiaolongbao directly from Shanghai! It's hot and hot! Fresh and steamed! It's delicious! Others sell Wolf teeth potatoes, bell dumplings, sliced noodles, milk tea and so on. And a crepe stand or something. The most recommended Xiaolongbao!

The food and other gadget stalls are at the end of the circuit, and each booth can be swiped with a credit card. Besides Chinese food, there are also two western food stalls. Several of the food stalls are very shabby and the operation is very chaotic and slow. The most popular, of course, is Yu Garden soup dumplings, we go in very early to wait 15-20 minutes to get, behind the team feel to wait 20-30 minutes, Yu Garden soup dumplings are very delicious (9 euros four, 11 euros six)!

I walk around this lamp will really more and more moved! Let people all over the world feel our Chinese culture, but also let us drift overseas to leave children have the feeling of going home.