After the founding of New China, the art of lanterns has been further developed. Especially with the development of science and technology in China, the art of lanterns has been refurbished, and the tricks are frequent. The traditional lighting technology is closely integrated with modern science and technology. New technologies and processes such as electronics, construction, machinery, remote control, acoustics, and optical fibers are used in the design and production of lanterns. The combination of shape, color, light, sound and movement is ideological, intellectual, interesting and artistic. Unification, the ancient art of the Zigong Lantern Festival is more colorful.
With the development and transformation of the society, the Zigong Lantern Festival has gradually become more sophisticated and sophisticated under the nurturing and nourishment of national culture. In 1964, the Zigong Municipal People's Government organized the first Lantern Festival since the founding of New China. From then on, the scale of the lanterns will be changed from small to large, the process will be from coarse to fine, and the lamps will be developed from individual to group, from no movement to linkage, and the layout will develop from plane to solid. By 2005, the 11th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival had been successfully held in the local area and was invited to Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore to exhibit.
During the exhibition in Beijing in June 1988, 115 party and state leaders, including Comrade Deng Xiaoping and Comrade Yang Shangkun, watched the lights and got their approval. Later, General Secretary Jiang Zemin also believed that the Zigong Lantern Festival was a success. Singapore’s President Jin Hui personally visited the opening ceremony of the “China Zigong Lantern Festival” exhibited in the country and visited the beautiful Zigong Lantern with great interest. After the appreciation of the lanterns, the former Prime Minister of the country, Lee Kuan Yew, was pleased to say: "The beauty is not good, the name is not false." The Zigong Lantern Festival has won the reputation of “the first light in the world”!
The people created the lantern festival, and the lanterns will benefit the people. With the advent of the new century, the Zigong Lantern Festival will appear in the world with new spectacle and wonders, and it will bloom more beautifully.
Chinese lanterns have made a name for themselves at home and abroad, and have been invited by dozens of regions and cities at home and abroad, and will continue to exhibit at home and abroad.
