The Lantern Festival here on CCTV is absolutely stunning
🏮Every year during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, the Qinhuai River by the Confucius Temple in Nanjing becomes the most beautiful sight, as a magnificent lantern festival is held during this time. Qinhuai's lantern decorations are famous worldwide, and only by taking a boat trip on the Qinhuai River at night during this period can one truly experience the 'Qinhuai River amidst the sound of oars and the shadow of lights' as described by Mr. Zhu Ziqing!
🗺️There are three cruise routes on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing:
1⃣️ Inner Qinhuai River East Route: Board at the Pan Pool Wharf under the Confucius Temple's 'World's Literary Center' Archway, passing through Peach Leaf Ferry, White Egret Island Park (the main venue for this year's Qinhuai Lantern Festival, with stunning lanterns), Water Street, East Water Gate, Zhonghua Gate, and finally returning to Pan Pool Wharf. This route offers the most beautiful scenery and lanterns, highly recommended!
2⃣️ Inner Qinhuai River West Route: The night cruise starts at 18:00, boarding at Pan Pool Wharf, passing through Zhonghua Gate, Ancient Stage, Xianhe Bridge, West Water Gate, and finally returning to Pan Pool Wharf.
3⃣️ Outer Qinhuai River Cruise: Board near the wharf by the Dabao'en Temple outside Zhonghua Gate, passing through Dabao'en Temple Wharf, Yuhua Bridge, Fengtai Bridge, and finally returning to Dabao'en Temple Wharf.
📸Recommended photo spots at Confucius Temple Qinhuai River:
☑️Wende Bridge, Wenyuan Bridge, Dongyuan Bridge: You can capture close-up views of the Qinhuai River and the cruise boats, with excellent night views.
☑️The platform on the 4th floor of Deyue Platform: Overlooking Pan Pool Wharf, you can take photos with a drone's perspective.
⚠️Special reminder:
During the Lantern Festival, if you plan to visit the Confucius Temple scenic area, White Egret Island Park, and Laomendong to enjoy the lanterns, please make a reservation in advance. On the day of the Lantern Festival, the Confucius Temple scenic area will experience a huge influx of visitors and significant traffic pressure, so please plan your travel method accordingly. The scenic area may implement one-way tours, and you may not be able to backtrack, so please follow the on-site guidance for a safe visit.
There are too many people in the Confucius Temple. There are fewer people to see the light show in Bailuzhou Park. After all, there are tickets. Just look at it casually, I don't feel particularly attractive, it is better to take a cruise to the Qinhuai River at night. The price is not high.
Can the tickets be cheaper! I don't know if there is a light in advance that I can't enjoy the discount without Hanfu. I feel that I have lost a lot! Traveling alone to rent Hanfu, I have to ask the photographer to buy tickets for the photographer. It feels not cost-effective. I can’t bear to 🥹. If you can take a boat here, it would be great. Fengwu nine days of performance is very pleasant. It was boring. I suddenly took off hahaha. I have never seen such a big light show. Feeling 🥰
Because it is an off-season workday night, there are not many people, many snack shops are not open, a little lack of fun, the light sea in the lawn just entered the door is still quite amazing, the family is still very good.
The Qinhuai Lighting Club is indeed well-deserved. It patrols the garden route from the south gate. There are more people at the entrance. It is much wider when you walk in. The light show has several large landscape lamp groups: Jiuse Shenlu, Lushan Cathay Pacific, Longteng Sihai, Koi Recreation, and rich corals... all impressed. Browse all the way, the color lights are rich in content, colorful, tourists are like weaving, orderly, and there are various food and entertainment stalls in the garden. Remember to go to Ximen to check in and see the net red dragon.
The lamp will be good, the number and quality of the lamp group are good, and many people cannot be avoided, but the park is relatively large and you can still walk around. The faucet at the west gate is the most amazing, with architectural lights. About an hour to stroll around.
When I came to Nanjing to learn that this year's Qinhuai Lighting Festival extended the visit time, I was happy to go after dinner. I have to say that the feeling of watching the staggered peak is really not too good. The number of tourists in the park is scarce, so you can take pictures as much as you like. The lamp meeting is still recommended to see at night, each lamp group has different shapes, flowing bright, very sloppy, making people feel lingering.
Fire tree and silver flower, brilliant lights, the New Year taste is getting stronger, once looked at the lights, prayed for the good people not to leave; now look at the lights, prayed for peace from all parties,