Zigong Jiucai Culture And Art Co., Ltd. has been recognized as one of the Outstanding Overseas Exhibition Projects of the 2023 Zigong Lantern Industry.
This industry recognition highlights Jiucai Culture's capabilities in custom lantern design, large-scale lantern festival production, project execution, and cultural event delivery. The award-winning project was the 2023 Spring Festival Lantern Festival at Nanshan Park in Yantai, China, a large-scale cultural lighting event that combined traditional Chinese lantern craftsmanship with Yantai's local culture, tourism resources, and urban identity.
For Jiucai Culture, this recognition represents more than an industry award. It reflects our long-term commitment to craftsmanship, creative design, engineering quality, and reliable project delivery—capabilities that we continue to bring to lantern festivals, theme parks, zoos, cultural destinations, city events, and tourism attractions worldwide.
2023 Yantai Nanshan Park Spring Festival Lantern Festival
Dragon Lanterns, Coastal Culture and the Energy of Yantai
Themed “Welcoming the Year of the Dragon with Lanterns Illuminating Yantai,” the lantern festival was designed around the existing landscape and visitor routes of Nanshan Park.
Rather than treating the lanterns as isolated decorative installations, the project integrated illuminated artworks into the park's main circulation routes, creating a continuous nighttime experience for visitors.
The exhibition was organized into three major themed zones:
- Dragon Dance & Spring Celebration
- Fairyland & the Beauty of Yantai
- Waves, Coastline & the Spirit of Yantai
The project featured 4 large-scale lantern installations and 41 medium-sized lantern groups, together with additional lighting decorations for surrounding trees, lawns, and landscape areas.
The overall visitor route extended approximately 2,000 meters, transforming the park into an immersive nighttime cultural attraction.
Designing Lanterns Around Local Culture
For this project, Jiucai Culture's design team conducted detailed research into Yantai's coastal landscape, ecological culture, local history, and tourism identity.
These regional elements were combined with traditional Chinese New Year themes, the Year of the Dragon, and elements inspired by Chinese mythology to create a distinctive visual language for the exhibition.
The objective was not simply to produce colorful lanterns, but to develop an integrated experience that connected traditional lantern craftsmanship with local cultural storytelling.
This approach is particularly important for large-scale cultural tourism projects, where clients need lantern installations to complement the destination rather than appear as generic temporary decorations.
From Lantern Manufacturing to Turnkey Project Delivery
A successful lantern festival requires much more than attractive designs.
For large outdoor projects, overseas buyers and event organizers typically need a supplier capable of managing multiple stages of the project—from initial concept development to manufacturing, logistics, installation, and final commissioning.
Jiucai Culture provides an integrated project workflow covering:
- Concept & Creative Design → 3D Visualization → Structural Engineering → Lantern Manufacturing → Quality Inspection → Export Packaging → International Logistics → On-Site Installation & Commissioning
Our production combines traditional silk lantern craftsmanship, steel-frame engineering, LED lighting technology, and modern manufacturing processes to create large-scale illuminated installations suitable for indoor and outdoor environments.
For international projects, our experience with export packaging, transportation, site installation, and project coordination also helps reduce the complexity commonly associated with importing large custom lantern displays from China.
A Successful Large-Scale Nighttime Tourism Project
The Yantai Nanshan Park Lantern Festival ran for 42 days.
During the Chinese New Year holiday period from February 2 to February 13, the event welcomed more than 600,000 visitors, while the instantaneous maximum visitor capacity within the lantern exhibition area reached approximately 20,000 people.
The project demonstrated how a well-planned lantern festival can become more than a seasonal lighting display.
By combining:
- Traditional Chinese lantern culture
- Local tourism resources
- Nighttime entertainment
- Cultural experiences
- Food and retail
- Check-in attractions
- Festival performances
the event helped create a vibrant nighttime destination and provided visitors with a diverse cultural and recreational experience.
For destination owners, municipalities, tourism operators, and event organizers, this type of integrated approach can turn a seasonal lantern exhibition into a broader nighttime tourism and cultural attraction.
From Zigong Craftsmanship to Global Lantern Projects
Zigong is widely recognized as the “City of Lanterns”, with a long history of traditional lantern craftsmanship. Techniques such as silk fabrication, hand-shaped structures, steel-frame construction, and illuminated artistic modeling form the foundation of Zigong's distinctive lantern culture.
At Jiucai Culture, we believe that the future of lantern art depends on both heritage and innovation.
Our core team has more than 20 years of experience in the lantern industry, with participation in and leadership of more than 100 major domestic and international projects.
Over the years, Jiucai Culture has served more than 1,000 clients and delivered lantern projects for government organizations, cultural tourism destinations, event organizers, enterprises, theme parks, and other public attractions.
Our project experience includes large-scale lantern festivals and cultural lighting events in China and overseas, including projects associated with:
- Hami Spring Festival Lantern Festival
- Nanjing Confucius Temple Lantern Festival
- London, Edinburgh & Manchester Lantern Tours in the UK
- Singapore Lantern Exhibitions
- Xiamen Lantern Festival
- Kaifeng Lantern Festival
- Guangzhou Asian Games-related events
- Qingdao Chengyang Citizens' Festival
- Fuzhou Gulou Lantern Festival
- Xi'an City Wall Lantern Festival
- Wuhan East Lake Lantern Festival
- Shaanxi Provincial Games
These projects have reached audiences of more than 100 million visitors cumulatively, generating both cultural and commercial value for the destinations involved.
More Than Lanterns: Custom Cultural Attractions
While traditional Chinese lanterns remain at the heart of our business, Jiucai Culture has expanded its capabilities into animatronic dinosaurs, simulated animals, and custom animatronic attractions.
This allows us to support clients looking to combine multiple attraction formats within a single destination.
Our capabilities include:
- Custom Chinese Lanterns
Traditional silk lanterns, festival lanterns, architectural lanterns, themed lantern groups, LED lantern displays, and large-scale illuminated sculptures. - Animatronic Dinosaurs
Life-size and custom animatronic dinosaurs designed for zoos, theme parks, museums, family entertainment centers, educational attractions, and outdoor exhibitions. - Simulated Animal Models
Realistic animal sculptures and motorized animatronic models for zoos, wildlife parks, nature attractions, commercial spaces, and cultural exhibitions. - Custom Theme Attractions
Integrated lighting installations, themed sculptures, interactive displays, gateways, photo spots, and immersive attraction elements.
This combination of lantern manufacturing and animatronic attraction production gives international B2B clients greater flexibility when developing complete nighttime attractions, seasonal events, and themed environments.
Why International Buyers Work With Jiucai Culture
For overseas buyers, choosing a lantern manufacturer is not only about product appearance. Large custom projects involve significant requirements related to design accuracy, structural safety, weather resistance, production consistency, packaging, shipping, installation, project timelines, and after-sales support.
Jiucai Culture is committed to addressing these requirements through an integrated manufacturing and project-management approach.
One Supplier for the Complete Project
- From the first concept to the final installation, our team can coordinate design, engineering, production, quality control, logistics, and on-site installation.
Custom Design for Every Destination
- We do not rely solely on standard catalog products. Our design team develops lanterns and attraction elements around the client's theme, site conditions, cultural identity, visitor flow, budget, and installation environment.
Professional Manufacturing
- Our manufacturing process combines traditional craftsmanship with steel fabrication, LED technology, structural engineering, and modern production management.
International Project Experience
- Experience with domestic and overseas projects enables us to better understand the practical challenges involved in international logistics, export packaging, installation coordination, and large-scale project delivery.
Built for Reuse
- For many seasonal attractions, reusable structures and components can provide greater long-term value. We can develop custom lantern installations with considerations for durability, storage, transportation, reinstallation, and future reuse.
Continuing the Craftsmanship of Zigong Lanterns
Being selected as a 2023 Outstanding Overseas Exhibition Project in the Zigong Lantern Industry is an important milestone for Jiucai Culture.
But for us, recognition is not the destination.
We will continue to combine the craftsmanship of traditional Zigong lanterns with new materials, new technologies, new lighting systems, innovative structures, and new attraction formats.
Our goal is to help preserve and develop Chinese lantern culture while creating commercially valuable experiences for modern destinations.
From traditional Chinese lantern festivals to large-scale theme park attractions, zoo night events, city celebrations, cultural tourism projects, and international festivals, Jiucai Culture is committed to creating distinctive visual experiences for audiences around the world.
Zigong Jiucai Culture And Art Co., Ltd.
Custom Cultural Lanterns & Animatronic Attractions Manufacturer
Design. Manufacture. Deliver. Illuminate.
Project Highlights
| Project | 2023 Yantai Nanshan Park Spring Festival Lantern Festival |
|---|---|
| Project Type | Large-Scale Chinese Lantern Festival |
| Location | Yantai, Shandong, China |
| Exhibition Duration | 42 Days |
| Themed Zones | 3 |
| Large Lantern Installations | 4 |
| Medium Lantern Groups | 41 |
| Approx. Visitor Route | 2,000 m |
| Holiday Visitors | 600,000+ |
| Maximum Instantaneous Capacity | Approx. 20,000 Visitors |
| Main Themes | Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon, Yantai Coastal Culture |
| Project Scope | Design, Custom Manufacturing & Project Delivery |
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