Dragon Breath
by William Fields
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Title
Dragon Breath
Artist
William Fields
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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A dragon headed lantern serving as a fountain at the Chinese Lantern Festival at Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri. The spray of the fountain is the breath of the title.
The Lantern Festival or Shangyuan Festival in China is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year in the lunar calendar, the last day of the lunisolar lunar New Year celebration. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns.
Another legend about the origins of Lantern Festival involves a maid named Yuan-Xiao. In the Han Dynasty, Mr. Eastern was a favorite adviser of the emperor. One winter day, he went to the garden and heard a little girl crying and getting ready to jump into a well to commit suicide. Mr. Eastern stopped her and asked why. She said she was Yuan-Xiao, a maid in the emperor's palace and that she never had a chance to see her family since she started working there. If she could not have the chance to show her filial piety in this life, she would rather die. Mr. Eastern promised to find a way to reunite her with her family. Mr. Eastern left the palace and set up a fortune-telling stall on the street. Due to his reputation, many people asked for their fortunes to be told but every one got the same prediction - a calamitous fire on the fifteenth lunar day. The rumor spread quickly.
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October 25th, 2012
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Comments (10)
Joan Carroll
what a great photo! they had a chinese lantern festival in Dallas at the State Fair this year, but I didn't go. V
Jane Linders
This is a great shot of the Lantern festival. I visited in July and it was so hot that I lost my will to live. I love all of your lantern festival pics, but this one is my favorite. Voted. (I know someday we will run into each other as we go to all the same places......see ya around!)
William Fields replied:
Thank you Jane! I'm looking forward to meeting you. We also know some of the same people. Several of my friends have mentioned you recently.
Pete Reynolds
What a great find this was William, a super image that just pops off the black background, V/F.
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