Zigong lanterns started in Tang and Tune Dynasties. In 1964, the Zigong Municipal Folks’s Authorities held the primary Zigong Spring Lantern Competition Present, which formally opened the prelude to the model improvement of Zigong Lantern Competition.
The Zigong lantern business has continued its custom and innovation for half a century. It has gone overseas from a small city within the southwest and devoted itself to creating this conventional people customized a stunning Chinese language cultural enterprise card.
The cultural business of Zigong lanterns has reached a substantial scale. At current, there are greater than 1,000 enterprises concerned within the lantern enterprise within the metropolis, and the lantern enterprise occupies about 85% of the home market and about 92% of the worldwide market, forming a big business with an annual output worth of over 5 billion yuan.
From the “Tree of Life” to “Shangyuan Phantasm”, Zigong lanterns amazed the world with their magnificent craftsmanship. Zigong colourful lanterns draw on the strengths of others, combine trendy artwork, use the newest technological means, boldly innovate, and regularly transfer in the direction of the highest of the business.
In 1990, the Zigong Lantern Competition went overseas for the primary time and lit up the Chinese language Backyard in Singapore. For greater than 30 years up to now, Zigong lanterns have traveled everywhere in the 5 continents of the world, and have been exhibited in additional than 80 nations and areas. In 2018, Zigong Metropolis grew to become one of many first batches of 13 nationwide cultural export bases in China.
Throughout the Spring Competition in 2023, the worldwide touring exhibition venture of “Lighting the World with Lanterns and Spreading Civilization to the 4 Seas” will proceed to be held in cities equivalent to Montauban in France, Nashville in america, Santiago in Chile, Porto in Portugal, Montreal in Canada and Tokyo in Japan.
Zigong lanterns inform long-lasting Chinese language tales via grand lantern teams, carrying the understanding and expression of conventional tradition, lighting up all components of the world, and opening the “window of allure” to inform Chinese language tales.
