This was our first weekend in NZ on Sunday 24th Feb, so you can see I've got a bit of catching up to do!Each year they hold a Chinese lantern festival in Albert Park in Auckland to mark the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations. This was the ninth year it's been held. The 2008 Lantern Festival welcomes the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac. Since the Han Dynasty (206BC-221AD), the Chinese have celebrated the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.
Nat and I went down with Dillan and his lodger Anna and bumped into some of Dillan's other friends there. We had noodles from one of the many stalls then went for a walk around the park looking at the lanterns, which seem to be made from silk stretched over a wire frame. I'm sure they'd have originally been oil or candle lanterns, but now they're electric!
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