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    Historical Lifeline

    Feb 20, 2020 5 minutes
    By Zhao Wei & Sudeshna Sarkar
    Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo

    For Lantern Festival, which fell on February 8 this year, the Palace Museum in Beijing, the imperial palace built 600 years ago and a famed tourist destination since 1925, presented an amazing sight. It was a vision in red and gold, bathed in the glow of multitudes of traditional lanterns hung across the sprawling complex, supplemented by ground lights and a radiant Moon.

    “The museum was even more beautiful than when I saw it ‘face to face’ last year,” said Malini Biswas, a Delhi-based software engineer who loves to travel, both actually and virtually. “The special multimedia exhibition on the museum website on Lantern Festival scored over an actual sighting by giving you such a panoramic view. From my desk in Delhi, I could

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