Beijing Wangfujing Street is now 8.5 meters, 26 giant lanterns lit

 Reporters on the scene, and now, the main part of a large lantern has been set up is completed, and began testing lamp, lantern workers are now being arranged on the base of the following four zodiac paper cuts. Because the cold gusts there, the workers will be substantially the paper-cut master moved to the department store's door, then carefully fixed in the white paper-cut on the floor.

construction workers being set up giant red lanterns. Morning News reporter Shi Chunyang / photo

Morning News (Xinhua Wang Ping) less than 10 days from the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year on Wangfujing Street, the atmosphere has been with a diameter of 10 meters, 8.5 meters high giant lantern This lamp applied for a Guinness World Record for the Red Lantern will be officially lit on January 26, red light will be happy to celebrate the Spring Festival has been associated with people through the fifteenth day.

large lantern in the photo. Because the lantern too, so people can only squat in order to include a large lantern of the

official told reporters, this large-scale lighting is called Clifford light diameter 10 meters, 8.5 meters high, positive is the national flower of Phnom Penh, peony pattern outline. Adhering to the overall shape of the hemispherical dome of traditional Chinese philosophy, the following side length of 12 meters, 1.4 meters high square base symbolizes the four seasons, the base of the 24 boxes with the famous traditional paper-cut, Hebei Wei County Zodiac pattern decoration, also decorated the four corners of the

The official said that at present, has applied for prayer lights Guinness Book of World Records, once it has been found, it will become the world's largest red lanterns.

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In addition to these giant lanterns light

Wangfujing Office of Construction Management
, Wangfujing pedestrian street lights on both sides of the tree is also a new type of This decorative lamp is lit, just like the frozen northern city of ice, the trees laden with hanging from the strings, white and ice blue pavilions. A visitor from Jilin pleased to tell reporters that the