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Christmas Day

From December 3, 2021 to January 8, 2022, Universal Beijing Resort will present tourists with its first wonderful season-themed event- the Universal Resort Beijing Winter Holiday.

When entering the Hollywood-themed land, tourists will be greeted with a unique Christmas tree that is made with the inspiration from bamboos and welcomed by the film characters who are dressed up in their new winter attires and show up one after another. Strolling on the glittering Hollywood Walk of Fame in the themed land, tourists will be immersed in a strong festival atmosphere. With a unique architectural style of the Golden Age of Hollywood, stores on both sides of the avenue are decorated with exquisite Christmas wreaths.

Tourists will encounter a Christmas tree with its height up to 22 meters, and have the opportunity to taste up to 80 kinds of holiday-themed food and purchase what they like from over 100 special limited winter-themed products. Besides, two resort hotels and Universal CityWalk Beijing will offer tourists more unique winter holiday experience.

New Year's Day

When entering Livat Beijing located in Xihongmen, children will be attracted by the fairy tale festival which leads them into a wonderland. A rich variety of featured programs such as magical fairy-tale plays and offline handicraft workshop will be offered to children and their parents to celebrate the New Year's Day. In Longfor Beijing Daxing Paradise Walk, citizens can enjoy themselves in a fun sports carnival. In Joy Breeze of Daxing District, the Chunfeng lantern festival (spring breeze lantern festival) of the Huode Zhenjun Temple (the Fire God Temple) blends traditional culture with novel forms of entertainment. 9 sets of large festival lantern, a 13-meter-high giant fancy carp, 10 magical internet-famous sites… and a light art installation area of 1,500 square meters will give tourists a feast of culture on the New Year's Day. In Greenland Colorful City, the new year-themed installation called "colorful dream planet" will be officially unveiled, making people feel an increasingly strong festive atmosphere of the New Year's Day.

Spring Festival

Visiting temple fairs is one of the traditions for people to celebrate the Spring Festival. And you can watch excellent performances, experience a rich variety of cultural activities, and feel a strong atmosphere of Spring Festival created by the traditional folk-customs of Beijing.

Ditan Spring Festival Temple Fair not only offers cultural activities such as famous operas and folk songs, worship ceremonies to the god of earth, tea ceremonies, calligraphing and painting, but also gathers various types of local snacks in China, a series of acrobatic shows and a rich variety of merchandise. Therefore, it has become a flagship event for local people to celebrate the Spring Festival. During the Grand View Garden Temple Fair (also known as the Red Chamber Temple Fair), in addition to the reproduction of the scene of paying visits to parents and elders in the Spring Festival from A Dream of Red Mansions, excellent shows featuring traditional folk customs of Beijing such as folk performances, leather-silhouette shows and puppet plays will take the stage, allowing tourists to have an in-person experience of the charm of traditional Chinese culture. As one of the most popular international cultural activities in Beijing during the Spring Festival, Beijing Chaoyang International Spring Carnival allows tourists not only to enjoy Chinese and foreign cultural performances, but also to taste various types of local snacks in China. Based on the Great Wall culture and with the temple fair culture as the main clue, the Great Wall temple fair in Beijing Wtown combines food culture, folk culture, leisure culture, and ice and snow culture, and reproduces the hustles and bustles of the Great Wall fair temple in ancient times, through which, tourists can understand the Great Wall culture from a more comprehensive perspective. The Badachu (also known as Badachu Park) gets its name because of the eight ancient temples and nunneries scattered in the mountains. The temple fair of Badachu Park is the only temple fair held in temples in the city area of Beijing, with a rich folk customs of the Han Ethnic Group and a strong local flavor of Beijing.

(Source: China Daily; Beijing Daily; VisitBeijing.com.cn)