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Brief introduction of Yangshuo fishing and fire festival

Speaking of Yangshuo in Guilin, it has become the main destination for people to travel. According to relevant data, Yangshuo is one of the first strong tourist counties in China. The United Nations World Tourism Organization identified Yangshuo as the best leisure and holiday destination, and set up the first observation point of tourism development in China in Yangshuo from June 5 to 10 this year. Last year, this county received nearly 6 million Chinese and foreign tourists. Its Yangshuo Fishing and Fire Festival has always been warmly welcomed by people.

Since 1999, the Yangshuo county government has started to hold the Lijiang River Fishing and Fire Festival, with fishing, fireworks and bonfires in the Lijiang River as the main line, plus literary evenings, folk performances in the square, as well as cultural and sports activities such as art exhibitions, calligraphy, photography, ball games, chess and cards, and bicycle races, which made the county jubilant. In this festival, people can see the happy atmosphere of Yangshuo Fishing and Fire Festival, which constitutes a wonderful scene of a river with lights.

Lijiang Fishing and Fire Festival is held every autumn for three days. At that time, the fishing fire in Lijiang River was dominated by three fires, which were connected with thousands of lotus lanterns from the four dragons at the foot of Lian Bi Peak, forming a wonderful scene with a bright river.

With the business card of making Yangshuo a tourist city, Lijiang Fishing and Fire Festival has become the fourth tourist golden week in Yangshuo after the Spring Festival, May Day and Eleventh Tourism Golden Week, attracting many Chinese and foreign tourists, and George is one of them. Yangshuo fishing and fire festival has also become an indispensable characteristic festival in Yangshuo area, and it is a day for people to get together.