Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage – Exhibition on Traditional Craftsmanship of Lantern Making

"Glittering Fish – Lanterns with Abundant Blessings"

 

Date: 23 January - 16 February 2025

Lighting-up Time: 6 pm to 11 pm

Venue: Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza

Free admission

 

 

The Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Office has set up the display of paper-crafted lanterns with the theme of "Glittering Fish – Lanterns with Abundant Blessings" at the Urban Lunar New Year Lantern Carnival in the Year of the Snake. Mr Mo Cheuk Kei, an experienced paper-crafting Master, is invited to make exquisite lanterns in the shape of cute little lions and two fish. The little lions wearing cheongsam, sticking huichun (spring scrolls) and holding a fortune stick container to pray for the New Year. It looks like a vivid three-dimensional New Year painting, wishing everyone to be abundant every year.

 

"Spring Festival, social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of traditional new year" was inscribed onto the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2024. While enjoying the festive atmosphere of the New Year, would you like to learn about the craftsmanship of lantern making and appreciate the exquisite lanterns that combine different intangible cultural heritage of Hong Kong? You are welcome to come and appreciate the exquisite lanterns, and to feel the blessings and hopes brought by the New Year through ICH.

 

The exhibition is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has long been promoting Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public to learn more about the broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/ccpo/index.html.