As we know, the Lantern Festival is one of Chinese largest and most influential folk activities, also called Chinese Lantern Festival, Chinese Lantern Carnivals, Chinese color lantern carnivals, Chinese fancy lantern carnivals, in this festival, people decorated there street with lanterns and coloured ribbons, there are many different lanterns put in a relatively large place to describe a single theme, this theme of lanterns complex are called lantern display.
The lantern display is the most important element of the lantern festival, and each lantern display shown some traditional or modern stories. The size of these lantern displays can be designed and manufactured according to different exhibition places and requirement. A large lantern display might occupy over 100 square meters, some one even over 1000 square meters. But most of the lantern displays usually occupy an area of 30 to 80 square meters.
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