As the footsteps of the Spring Festival draw closer, have you and your friends already planned a spontaneous trip? During the 2024 Spring Festival period, Yanqing District actively coordinates various cultural resources, relies on local cultural characteristics, and organizes various cultural activities in scenic spots, hotels, homestays, and villages. They have prepared a rich and colorful "cultural tourism feast" for the vast number of citizens and tourists. Let's take a look together~
Brilliant intangible cultural heritage celebrates the Lunar New Year
From February 2nd to February 24th, Yanqing will host over 300 cultural events across 38 categories including "Celebrating the Lunar New Year with Intangible Cultural Heritage", "Bringing Traditional Customs into Scenic Areas", "Lunar New Year Celebration in Homestays", "Bringing Blessings to Villages", "Flower Festival Tours in Parks", and "Exhibitions and Displays". Through attentive services and unique cultural activities, these events aim to offer both visiting tourists and local residents a delightful "cultural tourism feast" during the Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival, Yanqing District will continue to host the Beijing Intangible Cultural Heritage Park. Through exhibitions and displays of intangible heritage projects such as making Haidian-style kites and Yanqing lanterns, tourists will be attracted to participate in hands-on experiences. This series of intangible cultural heritage activities, which include watching traditional operas, browsing traditional New Year markets, enjoying traditional flower festivals, and tasting intangible cultural heritage cuisine, aim to create a festive and harmonious holiday atmosphere.
Enjoying ice and snow in the most beautiful Winter Olympic city
The Badaling Great Wall will reopen during the Spring Festival period, creating a lively and festive "Great Wall New Year" for visitors. As tourists stroll through the cultural street, they can also enjoy local traditional flower festivals and intangible cultural heritage performances, where the ancient Great Wall and ancient folk customs collide and blend, allowing visitors to experience a romantic, lively, reunified, and meaningful Great Wall cultural year. The ground cable car on the southern route of Badaling will also be open at night, providing convenience for citizens to visit the Great Wall at night.
The Beijing Expo Park Lantern Art Festival showcases a splendid performance integrating technology lighting and live entertainment. "Dragon Soars in Prosperous Times - Spectacular Lantern Realm" will offer visitors a dreamy tourism experience. During the Spring Festival, the 3D exhibition hall of the China Pavilion will feature the naked-eye 3D animated film "Dragon Chanting in the New Year", taking you into a new 3D world where you can interact and make wishes while listening to the dragon's chant, and scan the QR code on your phone to send exclusive blessings for the Year of the Dragon. Additionally, the park will launch the "Revitalization of New Year Flavor Plan" through activities such as the traditional intangible heritage dragon dance parade, interactive blessings from the Five Lucky Stars, collecting stamps on the New Year Flavor Map, and the chance to win a year of free tickets, enhancing visitor engagement.
The Yanqing Olympic Park focuses on enhancing visitor experience by using "Internet of Things" technology to create the country's first 5G smart ski resort, which streamlines various processes such as ski equipment rental, skiing admission, parking reservation, and hotel booking, effectively reducing waiting time for skiing tourists. During the Spring Festival, the Beijing Performing Arts Group will host the large-scale theme performance "Ice and Snow Celebration of the New Year" in the park, and from the second to the sixth day of the lunar New Year, children's plays, traditional Chinese storytelling, and acrobatic performances will be held to add joy and harmony to the capital's Spring Festival atmosphere.
Vanke Shijinglong Ski Resort introduces high-end customized service "Ski Pass", providing citizens with more professional, convenient, and worry-free skiing services through one-stop skiing experiences and a variety of welfare packages.
This year's Longqing Gorge Ice Lantern and Snow Carnival is particularly eye-catching, with the quality ice sculptures being three times that of previous years. The magical and magnificent "bubble ice" widely distributed on the ice surface of the valley is praised as the "Baikal Lake of Beijing". The Glacier Canyon Paradise has also been officially launched, offering more than 10 ice entertainment projects such as banana boats, ice dragon carts, and ice snow rings. Visitors can enjoy various ice experiences and have fun to their heart's content. Especially this year, the introduction of drone performances will feature 1000 drones forming 10 images such as carps leaping over the dragon gate and flying dragons in the sky, bringing visitors a unique visual experience.
Experiencing immersive cultural feast in homestays and hotels
During the Spring Festival, the Club Med Joyview will host lion dance, stilts, and dry boat performances, bringing traditional cultural customs activities directly to the hotel, allowing guests to experience the New Year atmosphere of Yanqing without leaving their rooms. The Crowne Plaza will offer handmade DIY activities such as making Chinese dragons, New Year dragon headgear, and Chinese knots, as well as parent-child interactive activities, to enhance guest engagement. The Hyatt Regency Hotel at Beijing Expo Park will feature cultural activities such as praying for blessings, lion and dragon dances, writing couplets, making paper-cut window decorations, and making lanterns. The Hilton Doubletree Hotel will host an intangible cultural heritage creative market and hold lantern riddle guessing games, as well as distribute colorful tangyuan (glutinous rice balls). Additionally, the Shiguang Changcheng Homestay will lead guests through an immersive experience of the Ming Dynasty's New Year scenes in the ancient streets and alleys; the Xiaoxi Dudu Homestay not only offers the joy of lighting a fireplace and enjoying roasted sweet potatoes and popcorn, but also provides fun experiences such as making roasted chicken, bread, and pizza in a brick kiln; the Yuanxiangli Homestay will organize activities such as hiking along the ancient Great Wall path, listening to stories about the Great Wall, making rubbings, and drawing watermarks... A wave of New Year activities will offer citizens and tourists an unparalleled and full-of-flavor traditional folk culture feast.
"Village Galas" include traditional activities overflowing with New Year flavor
During the Spring Festival, various streets, townships, and villages (communities) will organize "village galas" with self-written, self-directed, and self-performed local activities, featuring diverse forms of literary and artistic performances. Additionally, various folk flower festivals will travel through villages and alleys, conducting flower festival tours.
On the Lantern Festival day, Yanqing District will host lantern festival tours at the World Expo Park, organizing excellent traditional folk flower festival teams from various streets and townships to conduct flower festival performances, creating a festive atmosphere rich in traditional flavor.
Translator: TANG Yuxin
Reviewer: WEN Min
