A growing number of travelers are seeking experiences related to customs, traditions and folk arts, Yang Feiyue reports.
Culture and tourism integration doesn’t just enhance travelers’ experiences but also gives a new lease on life to intangible cultural heritage. Recently, artists were busy making lanterns in various shapes and sizes at Nanjing’s Bailuzhou Park in the city’s Qinhuai district in mid-January.
Some were shaped like fish, some like lotuses. All were for the Qinhuai Lantern Festival that began on Thursday.
The annual event in Jiangsu’s provincial capital, also known as the Jinling Lantern Festival, was named as a form of national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2006.
It takes place during…