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Zigong Lantern Festival has a long history. According to historical records, during the Tang and Song dynasties, Zigong area had gradually formed the custom of burning lanterns in the New Year and decorating lanterns before and after the Lantern Festival. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it gradually evolved into large-scale folk cultural activities with relatively fixed connotations and certain historical inheritance, such as "Lion Lantern Market" and "Lantern Pole Festival". By the early 20th century, activities such as Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, sky Lantern Festival and dragon lantern dance were popular among Zigong people, which gradually developed into a Lantern Festival integrating the folk customs of Southwest China.
Zigong Lantern Fair is the most famous Lantern Fair for the Lantern Festival. It enjoys the reputation of "the best lantern in the world" for its grand spectacle and rich colorful lanterns. According to the type, Zigong Lantern Festival mainly includes craft lights, seat lights, group lights and so on. Among them, the group of lanterns is the most distinctive, with the performance of excellent folk tradition, classical classics, fairy tales and other themes, with the characteristics of large, group, linkage, is a wonderful flower in the Chinese nation's lantern culture.
Zigong light color design ingenious, fine production, unique materials. Porcelain tableware, glass bottles, cocoons, bamboo strips, tie-dye, silk, etc., can be used as raw materials for making lanterns. Since the 20th century, the combination of traditional production techniques and modern science and technology has made the lanterns of various colors dizzying, presenting a gorgeous appearance, pushing Zigong Lantern Fair to a higher artistic realm.
With the change of society and the development of science and technology, modern Zigong Lantern Festival has become more prosperous than ever before. On June 7, 2008, Zigong Lantern Festival in Sichuan Province was approved by The State Council and included in the second batch of national intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Statistics show that in 2000, Zigong registered only 35 lantern enterprises. By 2022, the city has registered 2,136 lantern enterprises, a 60-fold increase in 22 years. These enterprises not only include planning and design, lantern production, but also lantern material production, etc. In Zigong, the lantern industry has formed an upstream and downstream industrial chain of raw material production, creative design, manufacturing and processing, sales and trade. In Zigong, one out of every 20 people is engaged in the lantern industry.
