Palace Museum opens Lantern Festival nig...

The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, has extended its opening hours on Tuesday, allowing the public to celebrate the Lantern Festival at night in the ancient palace for the first tim

Traditional Chinese culture highlighted ...

As the final revelry of Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival gala kicked off at 20:06 BJT (12:06 GMT) precisely, with focus on traditional Chinese culture of all kinds. The Lantern Festival, which i

China Focus: Lantern Festival sees large...

Tickets for the Palace Museum's first night events of the Lantern Festival celebration were quickly booked up after online booking opened Sunday. Usually falling on the 15th day of the first month i

The Lantern Festival: Visual feasts on d...

The Lantern Festival, which falls on February 19, is the grande finale of weeks of celebrations to mark Spring Festival. This year, the occasion, which features traditional lanterns hung everywhere a

NCPA to stage Lantern Festival concert

BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) will stage a concert in celebration of the Lantern Festival on Feb. 19. The concert is presented by the China National Traditio

Shanghai takes safety measures in Spring...

A lantern show illuminating the Yu Garden has initiated Shanghai's month-long celebrations of the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year and the following Lantern Festival, which is also regarded as the ci