By Chris Chang, posted Mar 10, 2010 at 11:11 PM, 351 views,

Shanghai Lantern Festival

Just in case you miss this. Shanghai had a special event during the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival. It’s held annually and the locals would not miss the chance to take photos of the beautiful decorations in it. Here we have some pics for you.

The Chinese Lantern Festival 2010 was being held in Yuyuan Garden, the finest garden in Shanghai. The whole place is decorated with tons of Chinese lanterns.

There are some stalls in the garden selling souvenirs. Tourists may like it.

2010 is the year of tiger in China, and the Chinese would not miss the chance to admire the tiger.

You will not believe that you are in a garden if you were there.

Food stalls are everywhere and I can say that they make a lot of profit in these festivals.

The food are special decorated to suit the festival.

How many lanterns are there?

The Chinese couplets.

See that cartoon character? It represents the Shanghai Expo and lots of Chinese kids love it.

I can’t wait to see the upcoming Shanghai Expo. [Image Credits: Chunjuan's Blog]

Btw, the photos are taken with Olympus EP-2 with Panasonic’s Micro four-thirds lens).