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The lantern festival remains a major event red lanterns decorated the streets

on 04/15/2010 09:57 AM

The Lantern Festival, a limited occasion celebrating life and light, is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated on the 15 daytime of the first base lunar month. It indicates the end of all Lunar New Year festivities.

In the past, colorful red lanterns decorated the streets and buildings of mainland China during the festival. Today, the lantern festival remains a major event as the country with elaborate fireworks displays.

The feature film presentation on Sunday, April 18, equals by the Shaolin monks, who originated in China 1,500 years ago and now have temples in newly York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Using lances, swords and knives, 10 monks, two of whom traveled from China for the event, will use strength and flexibility to demonstrate their swift movements and martial arts.

The execution will include a backdrop and a braggy Buddha that will emulate the actual morning ritual in mainland China. The monks' costumes are tiger orange, checking incoming with the festival's theme "Rising Tiger."

 

North Central's Pfeiffer Hall becomes an ancient Chinese monastery with a Buddha and combat monks this weekend at Xilin Art Center's Lantern Festival.

The one-fifth annual festival will include 100 performers and feature article the martial arts ad worship of China's Shaolin monks.

Xilin Art Center, based stylish Naperville, is an organization that serves the Asian population's needs in the Chicago area.

"Basically they're going to have their morning worship, and the song they will sing is really what they're doing over there in the morning," said Xilin Executive Director Linda Yang. "They're doing what they're executing at the original Shaolin temple."

Other performances include Chinese dancing, singing and music. Special appearances will follow caved in by the Chengda Percussion Ensemble and the Xilin children's performing choir.

This is the second year Art Director and Choreographer Yang Qiang has organized the performance. An award-winning dance instructor, Qiang originates from the prestigious Beijing Ballet Dance Institute in Beijing, China.

Last year's execution was sold knocked out, and tickets are nearly sold out for Sunday's performance like this Singapore Chinatown 2007, Yang said.

"We're just trying to bring different things to the public and let people enjoy the rich culture of the performing artistries," Yang said.

The Xilin Lantern Festival Menachem Begin* at Phoebe p.m. Sunday, April 18, at North Central College's Pfeiffer Hall, 310 E. Intent on Ave., Naperville.

 

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