The Shanghai Yuyuan Lantern Festival is the most well-known and influential event in Shanghai during the Spring Festival. It is an important cultural event that represents Shanghai's humanistic traditions. The Lantern Festival has a long history. Wang Tao, a late Qing Dynasty thinker who came to Shanghai in the 29th year of Daoguang, recorded it in "Yingzhe Zaji" (published in 1875). After the Republic of China, the Lantern Festival gradually declined and stopped during the "Cultural Revolution". In 1979, Yuyuan re-held the Lantern Festival, and held 8 sessions by 1992. In 1995, Yuyuan Tourist Mart Co., Ltd. set up a lantern festival preparation team and equipped it with full-time staff, and began the annual "Yuyuan New Year Lantern Festival". From the Year of the Pig in 1995 to the present, it has been successfully held for 12 years, and has gone through a great cycle of the 12 zodiac signs. The entire lantern festival combines traditional lantern exhibitions with modern scientific and technological concepts, takes advantage of the nine-curve long dragon shape and unique water surface conditions of the Nine-Curve Bridge, and uses the lake pavilion and the Oriental Pearl Tower as the background to create many vivid and popular large-scale theme lanterns to interpret Chinese traditional culture and lantern culture, and configure cultural activities with strong national characteristics, which are integrated with the traditional Spring Festival and are unique, jointly showing the new and old comparisons of Shanghai's 700-year urban historical and cultural development, and entrusting the auspicious blessings of the New Year. The Yu Garden Lantern Festival has been warmly welcomed and praised by the majority of Shanghai citizens and Chinese and foreign tourists. During the lantern festival every year, the number of tourists is very large. The Yu Garden Spring Festival Lantern Festival has become the place with the largest flow of people in Shanghai and even in East China during the Spring Festival, and has become a brand of Shanghai's large-scale cultural activities. With the increasing development of the reform and opening up situation, many folk arts and folk handicrafts are facing the threat of being lost and disappearing, and measures need to be taken to rescue them. As a representative of Shanghai's old town and a tourist attraction with traditional cultural characteristics, Yu Garden has held lantern festivals year after year, which has preserved a group of traditional craftsmen and kept most of the lantern making skills. However, with the changes of the times and the impact of strong culture, the lantern festival is also facing great difficulties, which still deserves our attention.