Budapest zoo hosts Chinese lantern festival

Visitors take pictures in the Budapest zoo in Budapest, Hungary, April 7, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]

Persanyi told that a nearly 20 meter long classic dragon lantern configuration would be "guarding" the entrance to the zoo, while other lanterns would portray giant pandas, rhinoceros, the animals of the Chinese zodiac, and other spectacles, primarily of plants and animals, which would be set up along the zoo's walkways every evening, starting at 7 p.m. local time.

Persanyi explained that the lanterns were of dyed silk stretched onto wire frames and that 12 Chinese experts had participated in installing them.