China News Service, Beijing, January 24 (Reporter Ying Ni) The lanterns have been lit and the New Year pictures have been posted. Ancient cities across China will welcome the first Spring Festival after the successful application for World Heritage with more than 400 traditional New Year customs and intangible cultural heritage display activities.

As the main venue for the lantern display of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Congratulations on the New Year of the Chinese Lantern Festival in 2025, the Sichuan Zigong Lantern Festival is themed "Lans to greet China, and the weather is thousands of inspiration". Through seven major themes such as "Welcome the Spring Festival", "Zigong annual rings", and "Flowers all the way", it concentrated on displaying the thousands of inspiration of the land of China. The giant tail of the "peacock spreads its screen" is covered with the hillside. The giant "paper-cutting" lanterns combine traditional lantern crafts to create a 55-meter-long picture. The "Five Grain Rich" lantern group uses more than 10,000 pieces of porcelain for bundling... The scale has reached the highest level of Zigong Lantern Festival in previous Zigong.

In Handan, Hebei, 785 fine New Year paintings from all over the country have been released in concentrated areas. These works have rich themes and different styles, including classic works that reflect traditional folk customs and innovative works that show the style of the new era. According to statistics, during the Spring Festival, more than 20 New Year pictures will be launched in 10,000 homes in various parts of China, and through exhibition display, interactive experience, and collection of New Year goods, the cultural atmosphere of the Spring Festival will be enhanced and holiday cultural and tourism consumption will be enriched.

The National Yangko Exhibition and "New Year of Yulin, Northern Shaanxi" kicked off a few days ago with the cheerful song and dance "Beautiful Chinese New Year". The Hengshan waist drum performance "Auspicious Waist Drum" and the Shaanxi folk songs "Oriental Red", "Over the Mountain", and "Xintianyou" all appeared. The scene was a festive, peaceful and warm festive atmosphere.

The "We celebrate the Chinese New Year of Intangible Cultural Heritage" event in Lianhua Town, Xiangjiang New District, Hunan Province, some were eaten and played. Intangible cultural heritage projects such as shadow puppetry, paper cutting, New Year pictures, and lacquer were displayed one by one. Traditional New Year folk activities such as killing New Year pigs, grinding tofu, making glutinous rice cakes, popcorn, fried oil cakes, dragging noodles, and writing Spring Festival couplets were carried out one after another, attracting thousands of people to participate.

The "Intangible Cultural Heritage Congratulations on the New Year and Yanbian New Year" selected key intangible cultural heritage projects in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture for live exhibitions, displays and tasting activities. National intangible cultural heritage projects such as Pansori, Gayamen Art, Korean patriarch drums and rural dance were staged one after another. Korean traditional rice cakes, rice wine, cake-beating and paper-cutting, corn skin weaving, straw weaving and other experience projects have created a lively and festive atmosphere with a strong characteristic Yanbian New Year. The activities of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage celebrate the New Year, and celebrating the New Year in a variety of ways" showcase the unique New Year customs, folk customs and spiritual characteristics of Yanbian's children, such as the Korean People's Shangyuan Festival folk customs exhibition, Dunhua Manchu ice entertainment, and Antu's Changbai Mountain Snow Tour.

According to preliminary statistics, by February 12, more than 400 traditional New Year customs and intangible cultural heritage display activities will be held in the ancient city, and intangible cultural heritage parades, New Year customs experience, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, New Year goods markets and other forms to show the important role of intangible cultural heritage in integrating modern life and playing contemporary values. At the same time, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China also released 31 national intangible cultural heritage special tourism routes, including the "Ancient Road Picking the Relics of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience Tour in Beijing, the Gorros Intangible Cultural Heritage Special Tour in Jilin Province, and the Wuyi Tea Theme Intangible Cultural Heritage Special Tour in Fujian Province; during the "Intangible Cultural Heritage New Year Shopping Month", various parts of the country launched a batch of intangible cultural heritage good products around the Spring Festival customs, and carried out a variety of intangible cultural heritage promotion activities online and offline.

A relevant person in charge of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said that the integration of culture and tourism will continuously increase the supply of high-quality cultural and tourism products, making the national trend of intangible cultural heritage and the Spring Festival customs popular in new application scenarios, and also bring new impetus to the vigorous development of new consumption. (End)