The holidays are celebrated by different cultures in many different ways, and one extremely popular festival is in Cary.

It's called the Chinese Lantern Festival, and it is a wonder to behold.

[gentle music] [gentle music continues] - In Koka Booth Amphitheatre here, this is the largest scale for us in all the events in America.

We have the most attendance here, and I think for this year, every lanterns are different from before.

And we have the very high in heaven palace here and a very long, like 200 feet dragon sculpture there.

And that's our special lantern for this year.

[gentle music] [gentle music rises] - Tonight's experience was great this year.

They changed it up and they had the castle all done in ice this year.

The ice dragon was really cool.

That was something new for us to see.

- Yeah, the dinosaurs I think were really cool, too.

- [Chelsie] We've come for the past, what, four years?

- Yeah, four or five years, yeah.

And honestly, it's just- - Since they've been doing it, really.

- It's a cool event, you know?

And it's just a great way to come out and enjoy nature and, you know- - Culture, family atmosphere.

- Culture, that's right, yeah, yeah.

- Yeah, it's awesome.

Something cool to do in the Triangle, too.

- And they also give you, you know, you can buy beer, too, which is nice.

[Chelsie laughs] - Beverages.

[gentle exotic music] - [Lu] We have six, seven different kind of performances and all the performers are coming from China and they were like perform the traditional Chinese performances.

And I think it's great for our visitors to enjoy these kind of performances.

[dramatic music] [dramatic music continues] [dramatic music continues] [audience cheers and applauds] - There was guys jumping through hoops.

- Standing on a balance on a chair.

It was amazing.

- Yeah, yeah.

- It was really cool.

- It was neat, yeah.

- Very cool.

A lot of core work I can say.

- Yeah.

- [Lu] We have three themes this year, which is the ocean theme, and then the dinosaur and the Chinese traditions here.

And each of them, we have these descriptions for our lanterns.

And I think people, except enjoying the very beautiful lanterns, they can learn some information from our descriptions.

- Seeing the volcano, the volcano that's out there, it comes up amazing with the smoke- - [Leslie] Amazing.

- And some lava, you know, so it was pretty cool.

[upbeat music] - [Lu] We also have the interactive playground because we think if people can participate with the lanterns, can play with the lanterns, I think it's great for people to enjoy this kind of play lantern, like interactive playground in there.

[upbeat music] - The North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival is at Koka Booth Amphitheatre at 8003 Regency Parkway in Cary, and the festival runs through January 12th, 2025.

For ticket information, go to boothamphitheatre.com.