Pictures: Fairy Lantern Garden at Royal City
(VOV) -Residents from throughout the metropolitan area have been flocking to the Vincom Centre Mega Mall Royal City in Hanoi to take in the sights of a Fairy Garden magnificently decorated with colourful lanterns.
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Covering 2,000 square meters, the Fairy Lantern Garden has been recognized as the largest of its kind by the Vietnam Record Book Centre (Vietkings). |
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| At the event, there are literally thousands of brilliant lanterns to lighten the heart made from traditional materials such as bamboo. |
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| Giant Den Keo Quan (a lantern which spins around with vivid, rotating paper-cut figures), symbolizes the seasonal spinning of the earth around the sun. |
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The lanterns revolve around a variety of themes such as the Vietnamese fairy tale ‘Con Rong Chau Tien’ (Children of the Fairy and the Dragon), |
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| Saint Giong, who used bamboo trees to fend off invaders to protect the country, |
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| Vietnamese folktale of the Star Fruit Tree, |
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| and the Vietnamese Folktale about how watermelon was first brought into Vietnam. |
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Visitors also have chance to play Vietnamese traditional folk games. |
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