The 2025 Qingdao Summer Art Lantern Festival illuminates Zhongshan Park with a starry spectacle on July 18. [Photo/WeChat account: qd12301]

The 2025 Qingdao Summer Art Lantern Festival illuminated Zhongshan Park with a starry spectacle on July 18, launching an 83-day celebration.

The event transforms the park into six themed wonderlands featuring more than 60 elaborate lantern installations, pioneering a revolutionary dual-mode experience: by day, visitors admire forest landscapes; at dusk, LED lights and holographic projections awaken to weave Qingdao's maritime heritage with futuristic light art.

As this summer's blockbuster cultural-tourism event, the lantern festival seamlessly weaves cutting-edge illumination tech with Qingdao's cultural DNA to craft immersive historical encounters — while energizing peripheral businesses and turbocharging the night economy.

As the season's flagship cultural-tourism project, the festival integrates cutting-edge technologies like interactive motion-sensing lanterns and AI-composed light symphonies. [Photo/WeChat account: qd12301]