Chinese lantern festival marks Year of the Dragon in Budapest


BUDAPEST, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A lantern festival opened here on Saturday as part of the celebrations for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon.

The festival showcases hundreds of heritage lantern art pieces from Zigong, a city in southwest China's Sichuan Province known for this traditional art form.

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