Traditional Lantern Exhibition Debuts in Beijing’s Imperial Garden

A two-month-long traditional lantern exhibition debuts at the Beijing Yuanmingyuan garden.

The show features different types and shapes of lanterns amidst a backdrop of lotus flower-shaped lanterns.

Stealing the limelight is a 70-foot-high lotus flower lantern encircled by 56 smaller lotus lanterns. The impressive display is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.

[Visitor]
"The beautiful lotus lantern represents our thriving and prosperous motherland."

Other lanterns are in the shapes of lotus leaves, balls, ships, butterflies, and peacocks.

[Visitor]
"All these lanterns along the roads are very beautiful."

The park also provides various forms of entertainment, such as theatrical performances, opportunities for visitors to sing songs and crack lantern riddles.

The exhibition opens from morning until 10:30 pm every night. Free buses will transport tourists to the park from the southern and eastern part of the city.