The morning flowers are in full bloom, the night lights are bright, and the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in 2024 will have a strong "New Year's flavor" in Cuihu Park

In order to provide a beautiful and festive environment for citizens and tourists, and light up the "Cuihu New Year's Flavor", Kunming Cuihu Park has created a festive atmosphere of "flowers blooming in the morning and bright lights at night", and organized a series of wonderful activities to welcome the arrival of tourists from all over the world.

1. Hold the "12th Tulip Flower Exhibition in Cuihu Park", arrange tulip-themed flower sketches, and create a festive atmosphere full of flowers.

In the Spring Festival of 2024, the "12th Tulip Flower Exhibition in Green Lake Park" will arrive as scheduled. The planting area of Cuihu tulips has been expanded to Jiulongchi and Southwest Island on the basis of East Road and South Road in previous years, and the flower planting area will increase from the original 1,000 square meters to about 3,500 square meters, and the number of flower varieties and quantities will also be greatly increased compared with previous years, with a total of more than 20 species and more than 20 thousand bulbs.

 

 

The park combines the traditional lantern festival culture of the Chinese nation with garden art, and sets up 14 groups of garden check-in spots in conjunction with the lantern exhibition to create an auspicious New Year scene in the Year of the Dragon. In the Nine Dragon Pool, artificial roses and seasonal flowers are used to arrange the "Rose Waterfall" theme check-in point. The "Green Lake Park Small Bonsai Exhibition" will also be held in the tea garden, with about 40 pots of bonsai on display, and various camellias are also in full bloom.

 

 

At that time, tulips, daffodils, poppies, camellias in the park compete to open, bonsai shine brightly, thousands of roses pour down from the heights, tens of thousands of flowers create a happy and festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, and the general public and tourists feel a new visual feast.

1. "New Year Green Lake Lantern Festival", thousands of colorful lanterns reflect the Spring Festival, and "Ten Miles" lights light up the night Green Lake

The custom of "adding lanterns to the Spring Festival" originated in ancient China and means fulfillment and festivity. Green Lake is the eye of Kunming, and it was a traditional program in the park to enjoy the lanterns at Cuihu Lake during the Spring Festival, and it was the most important activity of the old Kunming people. To this end, during this year's Spring Festival, the park held the "New Year Green Lake Lantern Festival", arranging light sketches, light check-in points, light curtains, light corridors, etc., to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival with a colorful atmosphere. The lantern festival is officially open to the public free of charge from the night of February 8 until the end of February, and the lantern viewing time is from 19:30 to 22:30 every day. With the concept of "elegant, smart and bright", and the design idea of combining points, lines and surfaces, the Spring Festival Lantern Festival has set up a total of 4 main scenic spots, 5 light sketches and 5 lighting atmosphere creation areas in the four gates, roads, water surfaces, islands and other areas, with a total of 14 groups of light groups.

 

A 40-meter-long, 4-meter-wide, and 6.5-meter-high water surface light with the theme of "Dragon Teng Shengshi" is arranged in the South Lake Pond. In the octagonal pavilion in the central area, a set of garden landscape shapes with the theme of the Year of the Dragon were made. In addition, three groups of light-themed sketches are set up at the south gate, west gate and north gate, respectively, and three groups of light-themed sketches are set up, and lantern corridors are set up in Shuiyuexuan, Southwest Island and other areas, and lively and cute light check-in points are built with animals as the protagonists. It also sets up colorful spherical stars, bees and butterflies dancing and other atmosphere lights and contour lanterns of 1,345 meters to enhance the beautification and lighting effect of the park lights, and ten miles of lights light up the "New Year's flavor" of Cuihu. 、

 

 

3. Wonderful New Year's activities with wonderful pictures to welcome the New Year and gather popularity.

1. Dragon and lion dedication, ethnic folk performances, music salons sing festival melodies

(1) The dragon and lion present Rui to celebrate the New Year and show the charm of traditional culture

The dragon and lion dance is a traditional Chinese folk custom, which is used by people to pray for the blessing of the dragon and lion on festive days in order to have good weather and good luck. On the afternoon of February 10 (the first day of the Lunar New Year), there will be a parade of dragon and lion and folk performance teams, showing the charm of the dragon and the demeanor of the lion with agility, creating a lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival of "dragon and lion leaping".

 

(2) Ethnic and folk performances to create a lively musical atmosphere

Carrying out traditional Chinese cultural performances can not only show the charm of culture, but also vividly reflect the joyful atmosphere of the festival. The park will hold a Spring Festival folk musical instrument performance on February 11 and 12 (the second and third days of the Lunar New Year) at Nie Er Square on Southwest Island to create a festive musical atmosphere.

 

 

(3) The music salon feels the literary and artistic atmosphere of Cuihu up close

In order to enrich the spiritual life of citizens and tourists, on February 10th, 11th and 13th, the "Green Lake Music Salon" activity will continue, and many folk musicians who are loved by the masses, such as original, local, and Internet celebrities, will be invited to spread music culture, integrate the excitement of Green Lake and music during the Spring Festival, and create a unique festival time of Green Lake.

2. Intangible cultural heritage welcomes the New Year, and the ecological civilization exhibition hall holds an intangible cultural heritage art exhibition

In order to show the beauty of Chinese art, the park will display intangible cultural heritage crafts such as ancient ship models in the ecological civilization exhibition hall, so that the flowers of intangible cultural heritage will be revitalized and visitors will have a more comprehensive understanding of excellent traditional culture.

 

 

3. "2024 Green Lake Biodiversity Photo Contest", light and shadow capture the beauty of life

The "2024 Green Lake Biodiversity Photo Contest" will be officially launched from February 6 to February 19. This photo contest collects photographic works with the theme of "Biodiversity of Cuihu Lake" from all visitors, and selects outstanding photographic works to be exhibited in the Ecological Civilization Exhibition Hall of Cuihu Park by means of online screening and offline expert review, capturing the beauty of Cuihu Lake with light and shadow.

 

 

4. Rafting during the festive season and sharing the slow time of the Green Lake

During the festival, boats and playgrounds are open normally, and cultural and creative ice cream business points are also operating normally, citizens and tourists can bring their relatives and friends, enjoy the moon, taste sweet ice cream, share the slow time of Green Lake, and leave a leisurely and beautiful holiday memory.

 

 

Fourth, the New Year is full of goods, lighting up the festival "fireworks"

Cuihu Lake is a bright pearl in the center of Kunming, is the center of the citizens' life and entertainment, in order to watch the lanterns, enjoy the flowers at the same time, further feel the brightly lit "fireworks", the park set up the "Cuihu New Year Market", showing the people like flowers, palace lanterns, New Year's goods and other festival customs, the Cuihu Market is now officially opened, receiving 400,000 tourists, citizens and tourists can visit the Cuihu Lake at the same time, experience Yunnan handicraft culture, intangible cultural heritage, food and other traditional culture, appreciate eating, shopping, The breath of life as a play has been well received by the general public.