Pagoda Lantern Made with Porcelain Tableware
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Pagoda Lantern Made with Porcelain Tableware
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
This photo was shot at Toronto Chinese Lantern Festival 2008, This is a pagoda made by porcelain plate, spoon and bowls.
The Toronto Chinese Lantern Festival was a festival held at Ontario Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by the Rogers Media Group, the festival is the largest lantern festival held outside Asia. The lanterns - large illuminated and often animated displays made with steel frameworks covered in paper and plastics - can be as high as 50 feet and as long as 300 feet.
The Toronto event is based on the historical Chinese Lantern Festival, held in China on the fifteenth and final day of the Lunar New Year celebration. According to legend, a maid the Imperial Palace named Yuanxiao wanted to be home with her family for the Lunar New Year. She told the emperor that the God of Fire visited her and told her that he planned to burn down the city. She suggested that the emperor should make the city look like it was already burning so the God of Fire would not bother them. The emperor thus had the entire court and city put up colored lanterns and light firecrackers to mimic a great fire. In the confusion, Yuanxiao was able to sneak home.
The Festival was held at Ontario Place, on the waterfront in Toronto, near the Canadian National Exhibition grounds from July 31 - October 18, 2008. Originally envisioned as a one-year event, the success of its first year made the festival to have it lasted till 2008. - Edited from Chinese Lantern Festival 2008 website
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