https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/04deae3218729b58bde3d644891e2b3d.jpg 39582e8876ed877b744dc54da190b84e Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Author lw286@st-andrews.ac.uk DescriptionEN English Description The ancient streets of Yixian County, located in Anhui Province, China, come alive every year with a vibrant Lantern Festival that illuminates the historic Huizhou-style buildings. During the festival, hundreds of handmade lanterns—crafted in traditional forms and materials—are displayed along narrow stone-paved streets, transforming the town into a glowing corridor of cultural expression. These lanterns carry deep symbolic meaning, representing prosperity, reunion, and ancestral respect, while embodying the artistic craftsmanship passed down through generations. The festival fuses tangible and intangible heritage: the fixed architectural setting of Yixian’s grey-walled, tile-roofed buildings and the living cultural practice of lantern-making, storytelling, and communal celebration. Digital heritage tools—such as nighttime 360° mapping, oral history recordings, and augmented reality projections—can capture the multi-sensory experience of this event and ensure its transmission to younger audiences. This project supports SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, as it promotes local identity, heritage-based tourism, and the preservation of community traditions. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. License A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource. Creative Commons Attribution License Title A name given to the resource Latern Festival Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 03/25/2025 06:24:19 pm Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived is51102025 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource lw286@st-andrews.ac.uk Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,29.9258,117.9336; Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Photo taken by myself Description An account of the resource The ancient streets of Yixian County, located in Anhui Province, China, come alive every year with a vibrant Lantern Festival that illuminates the historic Huizhou-style buildings. During the festival, hundreds of handmade lanterns—crafted in traditional forms and materials—are displayed along narrow stone-paved streets, transforming the town into a glowing corridor of cultural expression. These lanterns carry deep symbolic meaning, representing prosperity, reunion, and ancestral respect, while embodying the artistic craftsmanship passed down through generations. The festival fuses tangible and intangible heritage: the fixed architectural setting of Yixian’s grey-walled, tile-roofed buildings and the living cultural practice of lantern-making, storytelling, and communal celebration. Digital heritage tools—such as nighttime 360° mapping, oral history recordings, and augmented reality projections—can capture the multi-sensory experience of this event and ensure its transmission to younger audiences. This project supports SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, as it promotes local identity, heritage-based tourism, and the preservation of community traditions. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2025-01-14 Subject The topic of the resource Intangible Heritage Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. IMAGE Europeana Rights Information about copyright of the digital object that is specified in isShownBy and isShownAt and, by extension, to the preview images used in the portal. Lei Wang Latern Festival