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Burning Bright - Chinese Lantern Festival [PICS]

reuters.com — The Lantern Festival marks the last day of Chinese New Year celebrations. Seventeen image slideshow begins with a photo of a 328-foot lantern featuring a dragon made of ten thousand used compact discs and auto parts lit up in Hami, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

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  • kacheriaashi, on 02/22/2008, -24/+2nice pictures... thanks for sharing...
    http://blog.giftex.in
  • Myku, on 02/22/2008, -1/+2Very cool pictures.
  • Holocaust, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1Pretty
  • mal1964, on 02/22/2008, -11/+1mal1964
    • mal1964, on 02/22/2008, -2/+2Some people are jealous they were not born in the year of the dragon. China's favorite year.
  • Lintrix, on 02/22/2008, -0/+13The picture with the kid and the mini sculpture of him is very cool
  • TheRebel88, on 02/22/2008, -12/+0in communist China, Lantern lights you!
  • ceruleanocte, on 02/22/2008, -5/+1Chinese fire drill! Serious this time!
  • diulei, on 02/22/2008, -4/+13Wait...an frontpage Digg article that isn't bashing China? Kind of odd.
    • d3mag0gu3, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1don't worry it's a once in a year event. but if it made you feel uneasy, just go the digg frontpage and you'll see the obama articles and know that digg is back to normal. Hope this helped.
    • yongke, on 02/22/2008, -0/+3LOL, I was thinking exactly the same thing! But I see you are still getting dugg down though, so it's still pretty normal.
  • davidkeithjones, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2Good to see that the paramilitary moved in before anything joyous happened.
    • jeo77, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1Maybe we're looking at different pictures, but the people there still seemed to be enjoying themselves..
    • inigomntoya, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1You always have to wonder when the Chinese military is ever involved...
    • desmonde, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1the silken fist of social conformity is wielded by confucius, not the ccp. people love the wujing because they have such nice uniforms and everybody admires a nice uniform.
  • deviouskoopa, on 02/22/2008, -0/+26"A 328 foot lantern featuring a dragon made of ten thousand used compact discs and auto parts"

    Probably all AOL cds

    Edit: Oh wait used? Never mind
    • mal1964, on 02/22/2008, -6/+1"Probably all AOL cds"
      Probably Not.
    • mal1964, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1Flying Dragon cds
    • mal1964, on 02/22/2008, -2/+1Sorry, i tried to make some people think for a second.
      AOL and Legend are considering the addition of other partners, possibly one or both of China's two big fixed-line telephone companies to the venture.
      A trial of the service, known in Chinese as "Flying Dragon", launched last summer and has been successfully completed.
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2888735.stm
  • npg6913, on 02/22/2008, -3/+3Culture on digg? no way!
  • RogerTourbiner, on 02/22/2008, -0/+16Let's hear it for a non-government, non-religious celebration. We need more of these.
    • mal1964, on 02/22/2008, -6/+1Let's look it for a non-government, non-religious celebration. We need more of these.
    • desmonde, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1lantern displays have origins in taoist, buddhist, and pantheistic legends, which may or may not be religious.
  • holycrapitsed, on 02/22/2008, -1/+15Wow, 11 comments, and not a single racist remark yet? I'm kind of proud of you, Digg.
    • d3mag0gu3, on 02/22/2008, -3/+0Don't be naive, there's another obama article on the frontpage. Obamabots FTW!
      • yongke, on 02/22/2008, -0/+3Better than Ronbots on the frontpage. I am proud of you too, Digg!
    • mal1964, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2With China,most people don't hate the player they hate the game.
  • Maurina, on 02/22/2008, -3/+1Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

    ... What?
    • EpidemiK, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1Western China is mostly populated with Tibetan and Uyghur people.
    • holysocks, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1your lamb kebabs are from there
  • ModernDayDarwin, on 02/22/2008, -0/+9I think this needs to be added to my list of "Events I would like to see before I die."
    • endlessoul, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1Hells yeah. Chinese New Year celebration? Count me in.
  • suzywang3000, on 02/22/2008, -5/+0China come a long way since the '50s... see what freeing up market forces does?
  • H1tchh1k3r, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2watch out for those wacky UFOs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0QtdpgT41k
    because people think these are them
    • Ibox, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1Well, if it's flying and can't be identified then it must be an unidentified flying object.
  • breckinshire, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1 Go Hami, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region!
  • mewmewkittys, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2Epic.
    :) Chinese New Year !
    • Ibox, on 02/22/2008, -3/+1yeah give those dumbasses a calendar... Gregorian, FTW!
  • prettyinblue, on 02/22/2008, -0/+0amazing pictures!
  • ErnestSixpence, on 02/22/2008, -0/+0beautiful quality photos!
  • meeram, on 02/22/2008, -0/+0Beautiful Pictures.
    Seems Asia has a fascination for lanterns. Equally fantastic pictures from India. http://amitkulkarni.info/pics/diwali-2007/

    Seems to be like their biggest festivals.
  • Dipster, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2I've been to Nanjing, and Confucious' temple. It's beautiful there, even when not in festival season. :)
  • desmonde, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1lanterns, fireworks, mirrors, and glittery stuff in general are essential to disperse bad spirits and evil omens, which are fortunately somewhat gullible and skittish themselves. and they appear all the more wondrous and enlivening set against stark cityscapes and scorched fields.
  • ggping64, on 02/23/2008, -0/+010,000 cds? what a waste of cds, they should have used hd-dvds instead.
  • rochskier, on 02/23/2008, -0/+0Truly a talented photographer and a fine photo essay.
  • fantasticjon, on 02/23/2008, -0/+199 red balloons!
  • notouch, on 02/23/2008, -0/+1By the way, the Lantern Festival is actually the traditional Chinese Valentine's day. ;)
    • ninthyear, on 02/24/2008, -0/+0Actually in the Lantern Festival every single will take a kind of lanterns to the garden party. maybe a butterfly lantern, a swallow lantern,or something else. When you meet the person who take the lantern as same as you. you and that person will be a couple...
  • lovecups, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1I loved this...especially the kid in the bike basket with the cotton candy bigger than his head!! ...sigh...those were the days. Really beautiful pics.
  • dorveycheg10, on 05/08/2008, -0/+0http://www.propeller.com/member/genericviagra/
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