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Lantern Festival 2024 London. Vuk valcic— getty images the lantern. The 2025 chinese new year festival in central london, organised by the london chinatown chinese association (lcca), usually takes place close to the day of the chinese new.

With each lantern taking flight, the night transforms into a scene straight out of a fairytale, as colors and dreams light up the sky. Known as yuan xiao (translating to “first night”) or the shang yuan (meaning “first full moon”) festival, the lantern festival concludes the celebratory.