Not just lanterns, but an artistic feast begins a journey through time and space, immersively chasing light. Time: 2025.1.1 – […]
Not just lanterns, but an artistic feast begins a journey through time and space, immersively chasing light.
Time: 2025.1.1 – 2025.2.28

Location: Yuyuan Shopping Mall, Huabaolou 3rd Floor (No. 265 Fangbang Middle Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai), waiting for you to explore.

[Lighting the Civilization Light] What has illuminated the 5,000-year civilization of Huaxia? What ignites warmth and hope in our hearts? What shines with the stars and moons, making the night less long? More than just lanterns – the 30th anniversary of Yuyuan Lantern Festival and the Chinese Lantern Art Exhibition grandly opens on January 1st. The first trip of 2025 invites you to chase the light together!

[Exhibition Highlights]
5,000 years of Chinese civilization
730 years of Shanghai’s ‘Roots of the City’
30 years of growth and memories
[13 Museum-Housed Ancient Lanterns Make a Stunning Appearance]
13 ancient lanterns from museums, from the Pre-Qin period to the Ming and Qing dynasties, use lanterns as a medium to travel through the long corridor of time, appreciating the wisdom and charm of Chinese aesthetics.
[10 Shanghai Library Centennial New Year Paintings]
10 centennial school field New Year paintings from the Shanghai Library take you through time, recalling childhood memories.
[Eight Directions Intangible Cultural Heritage Lantern Skills Competition]
Representatives from various regions of intangible cultural heritage lanterns, including the King of Jiangnan Lanterns, Sichuan masters, Qinhuai ‘Monet’, court craftsmen, Xashi flying needles, paper-cut immortals, ‘writing lantern’ masters, and civil and military lantern operas. Chinese lanterns bloom like a hundred flowers, and Yuyuan Lantern Festival witnesses the light of intangible cultural heritage!
[Immersive VR Experience, Digital Illusion Tour]
A national ‘Classic of Mountains and Seas’ themed lantern immersive experience project using large space virtual reality (VR) technology allows you to be in the scene, following ancient mythical beasts from a first-person perspective to explore the wonders of mountains and seas, experiencing ancient and modern times.
[Yuyuan Scenery, Interactive New Chapter]
Dream back to the old city, experience the century-old Spring Festival customs culture of Shanghai. Take an AI blockbuster to freeze the light and shadow memory. AI photo machine scene shooting and punching Yuyuan Lantern Festival theme with multiple scenes. One-click dressing up, shooting Yuyuan blockbusters, freezing brilliant moments, breaking through the barrier of dimensions, making your social circle different.
[More than just lanterns, there are cultural and creative products]
Mountain and Sea Auspicious Beasts AR refrigerator stickers, hand-held lanterns… Connecting the ancient and the modern, the virtual and the real, carrying Eastern wisdom, and传递 Eastern aesthetics.
More than just lanterns, lantern exhibitions + Yuyuan Lantern Festival, opening on the same day on January 1, 2025. Come to Yuyuan to taste a feast of culture and vision, and have a beautiful and memorable New Year.
Opening hours: 01/01-02/28 10:00-22:00
Opening preferential policy for children: 3 years old (inclusive) to 11 years old (inclusive) or height from 1.0 meters (not included) to 1.4 meters (inclusive).
Preferential supplement: One visitor can carry one child.
Children under 0 meters (inclusive) are admitted free. Tourists under 16 years old must be accompanied by tourists aged 16 years old (inclusive) or above.