On Saturday, Feb 24th, the 15th day of the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival was celebrated, where children went out at night carrying colourful, brighter, and lovely designed lanterns to the parks and ran around here and there.
This year, I have not seen many people playing with lanterns in the parks because there is still another similar festival in September called the Mid Autumn Festival.
The main attractions are the Leisure and Cultural Services Department mascots named "Enggie Pup" and "Artti Kitty"; they are lovely pups and gorgeous kitty. They use them to promote different activities across the city.
The lighting lantern represents the hope for the year ahead, and apart from this, represents unity for the families.
For this festival, I visited Tin Shui Wai Park, where the decorations were beautiful, and many people went there to see the bright lantern decorations.
I saw the decorations before they turned on the lights, and it was still beautiful. It is lovely to see how kids enjoy running here and there or how their parents take pictures of them.
Unfortunately, the lantern decoration lasts for a week only.
There are many shapes and sizes; for example, there was a pair of lovely cartoon dogs, a phoenix bird, a golden fish, some butterflies, adorable pigs, funny frogs and some lotus flowers.
Finally, this festival marks the Chinese New Year celebrations' finale, so see you next year.
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