2022 Shanghai Yuyuan Lantern Festival lighting time and details

The 2022 Shanghai Yuyuan Lantern Festival has opened on January 18 and will last until February 18, lasting 32 days. Let’s learn about the daily lighting time, details and themes of the activities. Let’s learn about the specific activities of the Yuyuan Lantern Festival.

1. Lighting time

The 2022 Shanghai Yuyuan Lantern Festival will officially open on January 18 and last for 32 days until February 18.

As a national intangible cultural heritage project, Yu Garden 2022 will welcome the New Year with the theme of "Oriental Tiger Leap", presenting a glorious start to the century-old journey, connecting Yu Garden Central Square, Jiuqu Bridge Square, and Golden Square. Create a unique themed New Year's Eve neighborhood and create a New Year's destination with the most Shanghai flavor.

2. Event details

From January 18th to February 18th, the theme of Yuyuan Year of the Tiger is "Shanghai's Old Taste, New Experience", integrating New Year's customs, New Year's flavor and fun All in one, satisfying the stomach with old tastes and warming the heart with new experiences.

In the central square with the theme of "Tiger Leaping East", a 9-meter-high zodiac tiger lantern group stands on the top of the hill, looking forward to the future. This lifelike tiger is the protagonist of "C" in the central square. Its whole body is golden with black patterns, which is domineering and eye-catching. The expression on its face was one of majesty and desire. One front foot is raised high and the head is held high, leading people into the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar.

In front of it is the space tiger holding the national flag; on the towering iceberg, the skiing tiger that has participated in the Beijing Winter Olympics leaps across the ice, becoming a kind of interest with the handsome command tiger on the aircraft carrier. . On the wall of the treasure building, a picture of "Thousands of Miles of Mountains and Rivers" slowly unfolds, with the Fuxing high-speed train passing through it. Photovoltaics, 5G and supercomputers. Compose the picture "A Hundred Years Are Just the Heyday" to pay tribute to the great achievements and breakthroughs in the centenary of the founding of the Party.

Golden Square is centered on prayer. Under the lucky tree, the God of Wealth holds an ingot in one hand and a "yay" in the other, forming a humorous "Yay, the God of Wealth", which means family happiness and prosperous family affairs.

Continue walking inside and you will enter the Jiuqu Bridge Square with the theme of "Nine Songs and Twenty-Four". Fu Na Lantern Festival Group - surrounded by the four solar terms of the beginning of spring, eating spring rolls, walking on three bridges in the rain, appreciating peach blossoms in awe, and brewing spring wine at the vernal equinox. It refines the solar terms and customs of Jiangnan, shows the prosperous atmosphere of spring, and evokes the customs, customs and memories of the city.

During the Spring Festival, Yuyuan Mall will continue to promote the "Cloud Viewing Lantern" that combines online and offline services to enhance and link the New Year atmosphere in the greater Yuyuan area, and connect the two landmarks of Yuyuan and BFC in the form of light and shadow art. It becomes a time corridor spanning the past and present, lighting up the bright New Year in Huangpu.

In order to reassure everyone, various epidemic prevention measures are fully prepared. During the Chinese New Year, Yuyuan Mall implemented multiple prevention and control measures and implemented a real-name registration system for full traceability. It is recommended that friends bring their ID cards when entering the park and remember the "three-piece set" and "five updates". In addition, the business hours of Yuyuan Mall are 10:00-22:00 (closed at 17:30 on New Year’s Eve), please arrange your travel time reasonably.