Tonight is Lantern Festival in China, marking the end of the Chinese New Year, and it's a night of celebration with family dinners, fireworks, and lanterns. Here's a couple videos for you to see a little of what I'm experiencing tonight from my apartment. Earlier we were entertained, awed by a spectacular display of fireworks at the far end of the lake, like what we might see on the 4th of July. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me as I was walking back to the apartment following dinner with a Chinese family. Smaller fireworks have continued for hours throughout the city, however. The orange lanterns being launched, hundreds of them, are fueled by a lit candle in the base. It's quite an exciting everning, I must say, one which will go on for many hours, I'm told.
Here's a video taken nearly an hour after the first video, with the fireworks continuing.....