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Visitor controls at Lantern Festival

VISITOR numbers are being restricted at Yuyuan Garden during its month-long Lantern Festival, which began on January 26, officials said yesterday.

The gates will be shut when the 40,000 visitors mark is hit and the famous zigzag Jiuqu Bridge will be closed.

Over 20 state-of-the-art surveillance cameras have been installed at the eight entrances to the garden to monitor visitor traffic and transmit data to a nearby police command center, said Wu Zhongqing, vice chairman of the company that manages the garden.

Five of the eight entrances will be closed when the number of visitors reaches 30,000, and pedestrian traffic on the Jiuqu Bridge will be restricted to one-way when there are more than 20,000 people at the attraction.

As a precautionary measure, the nearby Yuyuan Garden Station on Line 10 will be shut down when large crowds descend on the area, said Sun Zhongyao, deputy director of the district publicity department. The Lantern Festival, which has been held for two decades, was suspended last year after a tragedy in the nearby Bund district.

From Chinese New Year Day ­— February 8 — until the end of the festival, over 50 lantern installations will be lit in the garden between 5:30pm and 8pm every night.

Major attractions taking centre stage include an 8-meter-tall Monkey King from the classic novel “Journey to the West.”

Other lanterns celebrate Guan Yu, a legendary general of the Three Kingdoms (AD 220-280); and Bao Zheng or Lord Bao, the personification of justice; and Confucius.

Entry to the garden is free to the public through February 25, except between February 20 and 22.

Tickets will cost 50 yuan (US$7.6) for an adult and 30 yuan for a child on February 20 and 21. Those prices will rise to 100 yuan for adults and 50 yuan for children on Lantern Festival Day, which falls on February 22 this year.

Wu said the charge is intended to control numbers.




 

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