CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- The North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival sponsored by ABC11 set a new attendance record. Organizers say that during the past eight weeks, more than 249,000 people from 50 ...

This year, these festivities began on January 24 and will end on February 12, the day of the Chinese Lantern Festival. These mark the Lunar New Year according to the Chinese calendar ...

The lantern festival at Manpukuji temple also commemorates the 350th anniversary of the death of its founder, Yin Yuan (1592-1673), as he is called in Chinese. Japanese know him as Ingen.

More than 249,000 people visited the North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, event organizers announced Monday. The festival wrapped up Sunday after an eight ...