The fifteenth day of the first month is Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival is held in the Expo Park.

There are other activities in the city.

The following is a report from shenyang evening news.

February 2 1 (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month) is a traditional festival in China-Lantern Festival. On this day every year, people will watch lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Yuanxiao. Every household is round and happy. This year, the relevant departments in Shenyang have arranged a variety of activities for the citizens. Come on, let's "make trouble" with Yuanxiao!

Watching lanterns at the Expo site

Thousands of trees bloom in the east wind night, and lanterns greet the Expo Park. On the 15th day of the first month, citizens can go to the Shenyang World Expo Park to watch the 2008 Spring Festival Lantern Festival in Shenyang, China, and many travel agencies have also launched special lantern viewing lines.

According to reports, this year's Lantern Festival has designed eight representative series of lanterns. They are: Beijing Olympic Games, Lucky Year of Rat, World Heritage, Peking Opera Mask, Fairy Tale Kingdom, Shenyang Landmark, Traditional Lantern and Calligraphy Art Series. The exhibition route is 3,400 meters long, the number of lanterns exceeds 3,000, and there are more than 80 kinds of lanterns, among which the symbolic lantern "loong" is 32 meters high and is the tallest dragon lantern in the world.

The Expo Park will also hold a variety of colorful activities, including duets, folk acrobatics and other performances; Interactive game activities such as solve riddles on the lanterns; Competition activities such as the lantern riddle collection grand prix and the lantern riddle theme photography contest.

Ticket prices for the Lantern Festival remain the same as last year, and remain unchanged in 20 yuan. Soldiers, the elderly and the disabled will enjoy free tickets.

At present, there are three bus lines leading to the Expo Park, namely 168 from Shenyang North Station to Xiuhu Square, 168 from Maluwan to Xiuhu Square, and 385 from Xiaojinqiao to Xiawaziyuan, all of which are reformed by minibuses. All three bus lines pass through the Expo site. The bus operation plan for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month has not been finalized.

Our reporter Qi Xiaotong Gao Yan

Licheng Temple Fair solve riddles on the lanterns

During the Spring Festival, the Royal Temple Fair, the Center Temple Fair and the Auspicious Temple Fair all held solve riddles on the lanterns activities one after another. On the fifteenth day of the first month, people can continue to catch up with the temple fair and solve riddles on lanterns. Colorful riddles are waiting for people to solve the mystery.

The meeting of the Imperial Temple will end at noon on the fifteenth day of the first month. This year's performance at the Royal Palace Pavilion in Center Stage was particularly popular. At noon every day, when gongs and drums suona ring, citizens shout around and watch the program with relish. Men, women and children are smiling. The programs staged at the temple fair include folk art groups entertaining themselves and professional groups singing and dancing; This is not only about oriental folklore, but also about the competition of modern fashion.

Besides being funny, you have to make money. At the temple fair, businesses of all sizes tried their best to attract business. This year is the Year of the Rat. Craftsmen who blow candy, draw Tang Hua and knead clay figurines are all exposed to the light of rats. The lifelike mouse shape is very popular with children. Three or five dollars a piece, each craftsman sells at least hundreds of works a day, and the income is not bad except for the cost of several thousand yuan in ten days. Snack street is always the most popular place, and several kebabs sell like hot cakes. Business in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Sichuan is booming. The cost of the best booth for more than ten days is 4,000 yuan, and the income of merchants can reach tens of thousands of yuan. According to the organizer of the temple fair, the food stalls in every corner of the temple fair are very popular, and it is impossible to grab them if they come late.

Emerald city, which opened on New Year's Day, also took the opportunity to catch fire. The sales of agate, jadeite, amber, crystal and other jade products have increased greatly. Many people customize waist chains, mobile phone chains, necklaces and car pendants on the spot, and the knitting master is very busy.

At noon on the fifteenth day of the first month, merchants will maximize profits, and the prices of handicrafts, local products, snacks, daily necessities and other commodities will be very low. At the same time, folk performances such as foreign movies, rickshaws, Qing soldiers patrolling the streets and Manchu weddings will also last until noon that day. In addition, there will be many brands of Yuanxiao listed at the temple fair, and there will also be stalls selling dumplings and fried Yuanxiao in the snack street.

Our reporter Qi Xiaotong Gao Xiaohong

Fireworks are set off in suburban counties

On the 15th night of the first month, xinmin city will hold a "Harmonious Home, Colorful" party in Huguang Park, and perform a number of programs with rich folk cultural characteristics, among which traditional folk programs such as dragon lanterns and dry boats will continue to make people experience the rich flavor of the year.

The "Colorful Fireworks Gala" in Liaozhong County will be held on the 15th day of the first month 18: 30. 600 B-class high-altitude fireworks will be set off in Huxin Island Square of Ocean Oasis Park, and relevant units and departments of counties and towns will also set off low-altitude fireworks at the same time.

Various fireworks parties will also be held in Faku County and Kangping County. At that time, the hibiscus and silver flowers rising in Ran Ran will make the Lantern Festival night more charming.

Our reporter Qi Xiaotong

D Yolanda Square Dance Yangko

On the 15th day of the first month, a Yangko competition will be held in Yolanda Square in Dongling District. Yangko lovers from all communities will present a lively "cultural feast" for people.

At 9 o'clock on the same day, Liaozhong County will also select 10 fine yangko teams (health teams) throughout the county to perform the "stilt yangko lantern festival" fine yangko performance on government road. Our reporter Qi Xiaotong

Twenty streets are covered with lanterns.

During the Lantern Festival, 1 10,000 red lanterns will be hung on 20 key streets such as Qingnian Street and Beiling Street and 4 important nodes such as Friendship Hotel, Municipal Government Square and Wenhua Road Overpass. In addition, colorful "LED" energy-saving lanterns and red lanterns will be hung on trees in the green space of the city square.

During the Spring Festival, Nanhu Park has been holding the New Year's Eve Flower Show. A total of 1000 varieties and 65438+ ten thousand flowers were exhibited at home and abroad. Interested citizens may wish to have a look. In addition to hanging precious varieties such as Cymbidium hybridum and Zhuan Zhu, the flower show also introduced rare new varieties such as Rhododendron from the Netherlands and Dendrobium from Taiwan Province Province.