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Feature: From southwestern China to Singapore: 20 years crafting God of Fortune

NAMPA / Xinhua
2026-02-22
SINGAPORE, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- A twenty-meter-tall lantern of Cai-shen-ye, or God of Fortune in Chinese culture, rose over Singapore's waterfront this Chinese New Year, smiling and holding a cabbage -- a Chinese pun for wealth -- offering the familiar blessing of prosperity. Crowds gathered, cameras clicked, and the lantern, monumental in scale, dominated the horizon. Building that smile is precise work. The lantern must withstand wind and rai......
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