• Home
  • Photography
  • Travel
  • Documentary
  • Lifestyle
  • Uncategorized
  • About me
  • Contacts
  • Layout
    • Default Slider & Full Post
    • Slider Fullwidth & List Style Posts
    • Default Slider & Mixed List Posts
    • Full Posts Without Sidebar
    • 3 Col Grid Without Sidebar
    • List Posts Without Sidebar
Zenazero Zenazero
  • Home
  • Photography
  • Travel
  • Documentary
  • Lifestyle
  • Uncategorized
  • About me
  • Contacts
  • Layout
    • Default Slider & Full Post
    • Slider Fullwidth & List Style Posts
    • Default Slider & Mixed List Posts
    • Full Posts Without Sidebar
    • 3 Col Grid Without Sidebar
    • List Posts Without Sidebar
Input your search keywords and press Enter.
Documentary

# 08 | Dark December Days

by admin / December 15, 2020

It is the last month of 2020. 

The days are getting shorter and soon it will be Christmas. Therefore I have noticed that more people than ever, have decorated their home and garden with sparkling Christmas lights.  In other words, we need light and clarity more than ever.   

For me it has been a tough Corona/Covid year.  My country, the Netherlands, is facing a new five-week lockdown. As of today, only the supermarkets are open and as a result Christmas shopping is no longer possible. Above all Christmas won’t be a real family celebration this year because we are only allowed to invite two guests to join.  

Chinese light in dark days

Because it’s not possible to travel, I’ve dived into my archive.  And there I found a short documentary about the making of a Chinese lantern festival  that I made a while ago with MOZO Productions (now Diepzeekonijn) for the Confucius Light Festival in the Hortus Haren.  

A group of forty Chinese craftsmen came to The Netherlands.  They lived for over a month on the grounds of the Chinese garden in the hortus.  In a traditional way, they made a large number of colorful lanterns.  Un-Dutch working conditions, cardboard welding glasses, building drawings on the pavement and more…  But at the end of that December month, the dark and cold winter evenings were beautifully illuminated by the many lanterns that the Chinese lantern builders had made.  The hortus Haren had transformed into a true fairy tale landscape.

Lantern festivals have a very long tradition.  In the early Han dynasty, it was Buddhist monks who put on lanterns on the 15th day of the lunar year to honor Buddha.  Over the centuries, this use has spread throughout China.  Today, Chinese New Year Light festivals are held throughout the country.  Symbolically, the Yuan Xiao Festival stands for reconciliation, peace and forgiveness. 

Although it is not yet New Year, this short video might bring some light in dark times…

My Chinese Lantern photo prints are available here 
and you will find my other prints here

click here to watch The making of a Chinese lantern festival documentary

Iron wire frame of Chinese lanterns

Chinese cultureChinese lanternChinese lantern festivalChinese lifestyleChinese light festivaldark daysdecember 2020documentaryGroningen Confucius InstituteHortus Harenlanternlantern festivalphotographyvideoYuan Xiao Festivalzenazero
  • ♥34 203
  • Read More
  • Designer shows car design # 06 | So now he can rust

You Might Also Like

Designer shows car design
# 06 | So now he can rust
August 8, 2020

RSS ZenaZero

  • # 08 | Dark December Days December 15, 2020
  • # 07 | Johnny Hallyday’s last trip to Paris October 25, 2020
  • # 06 | So now he can rust August 8, 2020
  • # 05 | Ink World June 26, 2020
  • # 04 | Welcome to the Corona World April 1, 2020

Categories

Archives

ZenaSound – Acorn time!

http://www.zenazero.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/eikelsBEW_03.wav
Sunday afternoon, a good moment to make a drawing. Sunday afternoon, a good moment to make a drawing.

#abstractartnature #abstractdrawing #natureart #natureartwork #natureillustration #botanicalart #botanicalartwork #botanicalartlovers #artworld #naturedrawing #decoration #decorationinterieur #homedecoration #colorfulartwork #handmadewithlove  #plantinspiration
Ameland Waddeneiland Nederland #amelandinbeeld #a Ameland Waddeneiland Nederland

#amelandinbeeld #amelandliebe #amelandfotos #amelandfoto #northseacoast #northsea #beachday #hiking_daily #hikemore #beachhike #waddeneilanden #waddeneilandameland #wadden #wanderlust #wander #wanderingaround #wanderer #wattenmeer #watten #beautyaroundus #beachvibes
Ameland Waddeneiland Nederland #dutchlandscape # Ameland Waddeneiland Nederland

#dutchlandscape  #amelandinbeeld #ameland #amelandfotos #waddeneilandameland #wattenmeer #waddenzee #waddensea #waddeneilanden #landscapephotography #wilderness #cloudscapes #waddenzeewerelderfgoed #wadden #amelandliebe #vvvameland #wander #wanderingaround #hiking_daily #hike #wanderlust
Ameland Waddeneiland #ameland #amelandfotos #lov Ameland Waddeneiland 

#ameland #amelandfotos #lovethebeach #winterbeach #waddeneilanden #northsea #endoftheworld #wander #wanderingaround #wanderlust #wanderingphotographers #beachlover #amelandinbeeld #amelandliebe #wattenmeer #hiking_daily #beachhike #leavenotrace #wheretonext #waddeneilandameland #wadden #waddenzeewerelderfgoed
Ameland Netherlands #waddeneilandameland #dunes # Ameland Netherlands

#waddeneilandameland #dunes #dutchlandscape #sunlight #cloudscape #noordzee#northsea #wintertime #wilderness #hiking #wanderlust #wanderingaround #wanderer #theglobewanderer #ameland #natuur #landscapephotography #outdoors #waddengebied #waddeneiland #wattenmeer
Ameland Wadden Netherlands #ameland #sea #northse Ameland Wadden Netherlands

#ameland #sea #northsea #winter #coastline #amelandfotos #seascapephotography #floating #wanderlust #wanderer #wanderaround #hiking #beach #dutchlandscape #dutchcoast #naturehike #naturephotographer #cloudscapes #seascape #northsea #northseacoast #waddeneilandameland #waddeneiland #tranquility #endoftheworld
Follow @zenazero

2019 - All Rights Reserved.