Unlocking Chinese Cities: Thousand-year-old palace lantern becomes a global fashion

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A stick of bamboo makes the framework of a lantern, echoing the family reunion or longings during the Lantern Festival. Either warmth, happiness or auspiciousness,the color of red carries profound connotations of the Chinese.

Recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the celebrations of Chinese New Year go global, sweeping an international popularity. Among them, red lanterns are a must-have.

For lantern celebrations, a small village in Gaocheng District in North China's Hebei, sits China's largest production base of the lighting items. Throughout thousands of years, countless palace lanterns come out from here, lighting up hundreds of thousands of homes and becoming popular all over the world. (Xue Lingqiao)