What’s a Chinese Lantern Festival? It took visiting a good friend in North Carolina for me to discover. Theories vary about its origins, but always it’s tied to the Chinese New Year. This one was an eye-popping expanse of light sculptures beautiful enough to make all ages brave the cold outdoors …
… And there were even performances! …
Here’s about Georgia O’Keeffe in North Carolina. Also, here’s about the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Women-Powered Art, and its Outspoken and Ancient Art and its Cutting Edge Art.
Have you attended a light festival?…
Happiness Between Tails by da-AL 
I saw this at our zoo and it is fabulous! Thanks for sharing!
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Videos were very pretty and graceful. Bob
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🙂
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I love Chinese New Year! Got to try some Yee Sang salad!
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yum!
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The Chinese Lantern Festival in North Carolina – who would have thought? But it is so gorgeous and imaginative, an event to take the whole family to experience. The performers are incredibly agile and graceful, such joy to watch.
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was a suprise for me too lol
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I know of “La fête des lumières” held in the French city of Lyon each year around 8 December to thank the Virgin Mary, because it was thanks to her that in the Middle Ages, the plague epidemic that was invading Southern France stopped and Lyon was spared
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when I googled it, wiki has photo of rainblow lights 🙂
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it’s not a gay event though
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oh, well lol
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rainblow lol
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lol
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It looks really amazing. I would like to have sen that! Thanks for sharing.
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it was indeed a lovely surprise 🙂
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Wonderful photos. Thanks for sharing and the videos too.
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glad you enjoyed, Anne 🙂
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I have never experienced a lantern festival, it must have been exciting! There be dragons … (and there be pandas as well). I always wondered, why the plates don’t fall down when the sticks are not standing totally straight up.
The Chinese community is not that large in Denmark.
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lolol – if you look closely at the video, indeed the plates were glued to sticks! what countries do most immigrants come to Denmark from?
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That is hard for me to say, there are a lot of Germans, Polish, Russians, other Scandinavians, people from the Baltic countries, but they often come for the summer only to help with the harvest.
I have just looked it up. It seems like the largest immigrant group are Turks. There are not so many Africans, I think it is too cold here … 😉
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we are such a melting pot that it is hard to imagine not having a little of everywhere here
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I wish everybody had that attitude.
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me too, now that you mention it
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