China Lantern Network recently known from the Lantern Trade Commission that the 22th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival will be held in the Zigong Lantern Park during the 2016 Spring Festival.This year's Lantern Festival is another large-scale folk cultural tourism event held under the situation that our city actively implements the "four comprehensive" strategic layout determined by the Party Central Committee and deeply implements the "three major development strategies".Through the holding of this lantern festival, we will continue to promote the prosperity and development of our city’s culture, tourism, and commerce, enhance the reputation of Zigong’s city, create a harmonious and healthy social environment, and enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people during the Spring Festival, in order to build Zigong into the advantageous industrial Zigong, the beautiful and pleasant ecological Zigong, the distinctive cultural Zigong, the vibrant innovative Zigong, and the prosperous and harmonious happy Zigong make positive contributions.
This plan was proposed by the creative planning and design team of the 22th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival, passed expert argumentation, and extensively solicited opinions from leaders of the Municipal Party Committee, Municipal People's Congress, Municipal Government, and CPPCC.
1. Name of the Lantern Festival
The 22th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Fair Economic and Fair
2. Venue
Zigong Lantern Park
3. Time
The planned holding time is: January 22 (Friday)-March 13 (Sunday), 2016.
The proposed preview time is: January 19-20, 2016
The total exhibition period is 52 days.
4. Organization
Organizers: Zigong City People's Government
Sichuan Tourism Bureau
Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture
Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce
Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival Headquarters (The headquarters of the Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival is responsible for the design and production of the specific operation of the lantern group, and the lantern festival organizes marketing, advertising, and security. The staff of the Lantern Festival Headquarters shall be selected by relevant municipal units or recruited from the society)
5.Theme of the Lantern Festival
Theme：Beautiful Chinese Dream, Bright Zigong Lantern
This year's Lantern Festival will showcase the unique advantages of the creative beauty, craftsmanship, visual beauty, and experience beauty of the Zigong Lantern Festival with the intersection of Chinese and foreign light and shadow arts, so that Chinese and foreign audiences will be in the most culturally of Zigong.Feel joy, experience happiness, and inspire heroic feelings.
6. Lantern Festival Content
1. Art lantern display with rich themes;
2. Wonderful and fun interactive cultural activities;
3. The first time to enter China's French Lyon Light Festival works display;
4. The new-looking "Nanguo Lantern City" lighting project;
5. "Economic, trade, cultural and sports activities" with strong characteristics.
7. the main sections of the lantern group
The first section-the most dazzling Chinese style
Main content: Chinese's excellent traditional culture, intangible cultural heritage, Tang poems and Song Ci, Kunju, Yuanqu, idioms allusions, world classics, etc.
The second section-romantic French love
Main content: French famous buildings (such as the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, etc.); French romantic lights (such as French cuisine, French wine, French clothing, etc.); French humanistic lights (such as Paris street art, ballet, French sculpture, etc.) ; French elements (such as national flower, top hat, carriage, etc.)
The third section-the great national soul
Main content:
1. Mainstay.Reflect and display the historical materials, major events, key themes and heroes of the Chinese nation's iron-blooded war of resistance, the defense of the home and the country, and the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the World Anti-Fascist War.
2. Glorious city.It show and embody the epic deeds and characters of the heroic resistance in Zigong City.
The fourth section-Auspicious Chinese Year
Main content:Chinese zodiac culture, theme of the monkey year, lantern riddles, house sweeping, Spring Festival couplets, window grilles, painting New Year pictures, firecrackers, New Year greetings and other customs of the Spring Festival as well as Chinese New Year food customs such as steaming rice cakes, making dumplings, and eating dumplings.
8. Space layout of the lantern festival
This year's Lantern Fair fully considers the comprehensive factors such as the theme of the Lantern Festival, site safety, and tourist comfort, and implements the "grid" design and creative principle of the lighting scene lamp group in the space layout of the venue.The Lantern Park is divided into 5 categories and 60 lantern groups. Each point is displayed in the form of independent lantern and group lantern. Achieve reasonable positioning and layout of the lantern group, dynamic and static combination, size combination, highlight the key, enhance the visual beauty, enhance the harmony between distant and close, scientifically, rationally and cleverly use environmental space to facilitate the comfort and pleasure for the visitors.
(1) Lantern display area
The area is mainly laid out in the 60 spots of the Lantern Park.
(2) Activity interaction area
This area is mainly arranged in the Lantern Museum, the old light stadium, the lighthouse area, the children's playground, and the large square.Activities include new and fashionable cultural art and entertainment participation projects at home and abroad.Such as "Citizens Praying Lanterns", "Lantern Festival Baby", "Citizen's' Good Craftsmanship", art exhibitions, etc.
9. The design requirements of the lantern group
1. Adhere to the concept of visual art.Realize the brand new layout of the lantern festival with the technique of "space conversion", make the highlights of the lantern festival with "new and unique" light and shadow optoelectronic products, realize the multiple experience and shock of visual, auditory, taste and tactile, and create a visual feast of lanterns;
2. Adhere to the principle of harmony and beauty.It is necessary to combine viewing and participation, water and land, movement and stillness, abstraction and concreteness, big and small, and delicate and ingenious.Form an epic scene-type lantern group, cleverly combined group-type lantern group, exquisite single large-scale lantern group, exquisite small-scale lantern group, and brilliant and blurred ambient atmosphere.
3. Adhere to the characteristics of Zigong lantern festival.It is necessary to organically combine tradition and modernity to truly reflect the uniqueness of the materials used in the Zigong Lantern Festival, and the exquisite craftsmanship of the production, which perfectly demonstrates the artistic level of contemporary Zigong lantern festival.
4. Adhere to the principle of interaction.It is necessary to increase audience participation, interactive entertainment , and create a batch of game-like, personalized interactive lantern groups.
5. Adhere to the purpose of technological innovation.It is necessary to learn the latest LED optoelectronic technology and products at home and abroad, and implant them in the lantern group of this year's lantern festival to enhance the visibility and shock of the lantern group.
10. Basic operation mode
Operate the creative design and activity organization of the lamp group of this year's Lantern Festival in the mode of "Zigong Lantern Festival +".
11. Major economic and trade cultural and sports activities
During the lantern festival, the relevant departments of our city should focus on characteristic cultural economic and trade activities,related with the lantern festival, carry out economic and trade cultural and sports activities with great momentum and obvious effects, and gradually form a unique, fixed and influential brand activity in Zigong.
12. Nanguo Lantern City Lighting Project
Continue to build a new image of "Southern Lantern City".The lighting decoration of the urban in the Spring Festival of 2016 should reflect the spirit of Zigong city, local culture, festivals and other themes.We should to reflect the elements and symbols of French culture, echo the lantern festival in the park and show the openness of Zigong.Combined with the works of the Lyon Festival of Lights in France to be exhibited in our city, a special area for exhibition activities can be opened in urban areas and appropriate areas to meet the needs of citizens.At the same time, in order to build a city of cultural tourism of Zigong, all districts, counties and related units should focus on their own characteristics and make full use of the influence of the Zigong Lantern Festival to carry out cultural tourism campaigns.Such as holding food festivals, tourism festivals, cultural festivals, etc.In this way, Zigong's civilization progress and cultural characteristics can be shown to Chinese and foreign tourists.