🏮The Lantern Festival in various banners, counties, and cities (districts) of Xilingol League features fireworks, ice and snow, and intangible cultural heritage! All your favorite activities like lantern riddle guessing, fireworks shows, traditional fairs, dragon and lion dances, and drum performances are available, 💃 plus unique Ulan Muqir performances, ethnic costume fashion shows, and more for a rich experience!
⬇️Please keep this Lantern Festival activity guide handy⬇️
Xilinhot City
📆Event Date: February 24 (15th day of the first lunar month)
The capital of Xilingol League presents the "Charming Northern Frontier · Happy Xilin" 2024 Xilinhot Lantern Festival cultural tourism series with 7 main themes:
1️⃣ Festive Fun · Lantern Festival Performances
🕒Performance Time: 9:30-11:30
📌Location: Beizi Temple Square
🎈Enjoy spectacular Ulan Muqir performances, traditional drums, dragon and lion dances, yangge dance, intangible cultural heritage shows, and ethnic costume fashion shows on site!
2️⃣ Festival Customs · Lantern Riddle Guessing
🕒Activity Time: 9:30-12:00
📌Location: Beizi Temple Square
The square will be decorated with lanterns full of festive atmosphere. Visitors can participate in guessing lantern riddles and win exquisite gifts if they guess correctly!
3️⃣ Festival Flavor · Lantern Festival Market
🕒Activity Time: 9:30-15:00
📌Location: Beizi Temple Square
A traditional Lantern Festival market will be set up in the square. Visitors can stroll through the market, savor authentic Xilingol cuisine, and purchase intangible cultural heritage handicrafts and special lanterns to fully immerse in the festive atmosphere!
4️⃣ Festival Gifts · Lantern Festival Lucky Draw
🕒Activity Time: 9:30-11:30
📌Location: Beizi Temple Square
There will be a lucky draw session on site. Visitors can participate to win exquisite Lantern Festival gifts, including traditional festival foods and cultural creative products.
5️⃣ Festival Blessings · Lantern Festival Fireworks Show
🕒Activity Time: 20:30
📌Location: Binhe Square
A large-scale fireworks show lasting 30 minutes! The show is divided into four chapters: Welcoming the Lantern Festival, Dragon Leaps in Prosperity, Charming Xilinhot, and Starting a New Journey, bringing a visual feast to citizens and visitors!
6️⃣ Festival Joy · City Living Room Lantern Festival Series
📆Event Date: February 24 (15th day of the first lunar month)
📌Location: Xilinhot City Living Room
1. Fun Lantern Riddle Guessing
🕒Time: 15:00-17:00
📌Location: 3rd Floor Mongolian Horse Culture and Art Exhibition Hall
The exhibition hall will have a Lantern Riddle area where you can guess riddles and win prizes.
2. Year of the Dragon DIY Crafts
🕒Time: February 24
📌Location: 3rd Floor Xilin River Art Salon
Join in making Lantern Festival lanterns and dragon head hats DIY crafts for a more immersive joyful Lantern Festival experience, highly recommended for family trips!
3. Lantern Festival Poetry Gathering
🕒Time: February 24
📌Location: 3rd Floor City Reading Cube
Poetry lovers among citizens and visitors are invited to enjoy and read Lantern Festival poems together to celebrate this cultural festival!
4. Children's Calligraphy Competition
🕒Time: February 24
📌Location: 3rd Floor City Reception Hall
On-site calligraphy activities themed on depicting the motherland, children's dreams, and celebrating the Year of the Dragon. Calligraphy enthusiasts are welcome to showcase their skills here!
5. Family Portrait
🕒Time: February 24
📌Location: 1st Floor City Light Exhibition Hall
At the end of the Spring Festival, come and take a family portrait to celebrate the Lantern Festival!
7️⃣ Festival Health · National Fitness Ice and Snow Series
Event Location: Xilin Lake Ice Rink.
Event Competitions: Ice Dragon Boat Race (February 24), Snow Five-a-side Football Match (February 23-24).
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Taibus Banner
📆Event Date: February 24 (15th day of the first lunar month)
The "Dragon Soars in the Northern Frontier, Thriving Prosperity" 2024 Taibus Banner Lantern Festival series will feature many lively traditional Lantern Festival folk activities!
✅ Colorful Folk Performances
🕒Activity Time: 9:00-10:00
📌Location: Aosengda Square → Cultural Square
Yangge dance teams, dragon and lion dances, stilt walking, and other traditional folk performances will start from Aosengda Square and parade along National Highway 207 through the main streets and intersections of Baochang Town.
✅ Concentrated Folk Performance
🕒Activity Time: 10:00-10:30
📌Location: Cultural Square
After the parade reaches Cultural Square, there will be a concentrated performance by a thousand-person yangge team, dragon and lion dances, stilt walking, powerful gongs and drums, and youth yangge teams.
✅ Ethnic Costume Show
🕒Activity Time: 10:30-11:30
📌Location: Cultural Square
A red carpet fashion show and stage will present colorful Mongolian ethnic costume shows and performances!
✅ Ulan Muqir Cultural Performance
🕒Activity Time: 10:30-11:30
📌Location: Cultural Square
Simultaneously with the ethnic costume show, the Red Cultural Light Cavalry from the grasslands will present wonderful performances including dance, songs, morin khuur (horsehead fiddle), and more, offering rich content!
✅ Lantern Riddle Guessing · Gift Giving
🕒Activity Time: 10:30
📌Location: Cultural Square
The joyful lantern riddle guessing activity starts at 10:30 with over 3,000 fun riddles for everyone to guess, and correct guesses can win exquisite gifts!
✅ Lantern Riddle Guessing and Food Tasting
🕒Activity Time: 10:00
📌Location: No. 11 Courtyard, Bianqiang Village Homestay
In Bianqiang Village, a key national rural tourism village, there will be Lantern Festival celebrations including lantern riddle guessing and prize-winning activities, plus delicious local foods like pig slaughter dishes, fried mahua twists, and intangible cultural heritage youmian noodles to taste!
✅ Fireworks Gala
🕒Activity Time: 19:30
📌Location: Open space east side of Cultural Square
A grand fireworks show will perfectly conclude the Lantern Festival journey in Taibus Banner!
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East Ujimqin Banner
East Ujimqin Banner will hold a large fireworks gala at 19:00 on the Lantern Festival night, February 24, in People's Park. The fireworks will be launched north of the Bokguan in Wuliyasitai Town, lasting 21 minutes!
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✈️Visitors can fly to Xilinhot Airport to start their Lantern Festival journey! Friends departing from Beijing can fly directly to Xilinhot to celebrate the Lantern Festival, 🚙 or choose to drive to Taibus Banner to join the Lantern Festival activities! Xilingol League welcomes your arrival!
Post by The Seas of Grass - Xilingol Cultural Tourism | Jun 26, 2025
