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2025.11.17 17:11 GMT+8

Popular Aoyu fish lantern returns in Guangzhou

Updated 2025.11.17 17:11 GMT+8
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A gigantic Aoyu fish lantern floats across the sky during the 2025 Guangzhou International Light Festival in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on November 16, 2025. /VCG

A gigantic Aoyu fish lantern floats across the sky during the 2025 Guangzhou International Light Festival in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on November 16, 2025. /VCG

A gigantic Aoyu fish lantern floats across the sky during the 2025 Guangzhou International Light Festival in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on November 16, 2025. /VCG

A gigantic Aoyu fish lantern floats across the sky during the 2025 Guangzhou International Light Festival in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on November 16, 2025. /VCG

The gigantic floating Aoyu fish lantern that caught viewers' eyes at the 15th National Games made a popular comeback in Guangzhou on Sunday. Its reappearance was also greeted by cheers from the audience during the ongoing 2025 Guangzhou International Light Festival. It took the design team 8 months to complete this luminous and inflatable artwork that has the head of a dragon and the body of a fish. A symbol of Lingnan folk culture, the Aoyu fish is a legendary and auspicious beast that is worshiped as a guardian by local people in Guangdong.

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