Winter Lantern Pageant lights up eyes and hearts with dazzling shows

Queens, New York — The Winter Lantern Pageant has shortly established itself as a beloved vacation custom in New York Metropolis.

The lantern pageant is a Chinese language custom that’s bringing vacation pleasure to guests on the Queens County Farm with the “Illuminate the Farm” show, as well as three other locations within the New York Metropolis space. The one in Nassau County, for instance, affords a drive-through expertise.

The lanterns you will notice are handcrafted in China by artisans with a long time of expertise.

Yuke Liu, the top of operations on the pageant, is worked up concerning the present they’ve put collectively this 12 months, which took six months from conception to opening day.

The lanterns vary from 3 ft as much as 20 ft tall and have been all made particularly for the occasions this 12 months, in collaboration with the host websites.

“The lantern pageant in China has greater than 1,000 years of historical past. One in every of our founders determined to carry the lantern pageant to New York,” and it has been 5 years since that inaugural occasion on Staten Island, Liu stated.

Watch the video and see the dazzling show in Queens, which has the air of a nightmare amusement park, full with star-filled tunnels and one with a walk-through crocodile.

This 12 months’s pageant has additionally expanded to Washington, D.C. and Mexico Metropolis.

“We need to grow to be a practice for the North American individuals to benefit from the vacation season,” Liu stated. “After lockdowns for such a very long time, I feel it is nice that individuals may come out, collect and revel in every single day, each vacation with their family members.”