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Chinese cultural traditions are taking on a touch of technology as tech giants leverage consumers鈥 enthusiasm for all things digital.
The annual Lantern Festival at the historic Yuyuan Garden has a new look this year, with voice recognition technology from Alibaba鈥檚 AI Labs used to control lighting decorations.
Xu Chong, general manager of Yuyuan Creativity Lab & the Commercial Properties Lantern business unit, said the festival would consider adding more interactive elements through voice recognition and other technologies to better connect with visitors in the future.
鈥淯sing new technologies to bring vitality to the traditional lantern festival is a crucial step to attract younger visitors,鈥 she added.
Meanwhile, as a virtual fortune sticker event enters its fifth year on Alipay, a special sticker for family reunions will be offered to showcase the special meaning of family gatherings in Chinese culture.
Around 300,000 Alipay鈥檚 business partners and merchants in 56 countries and regions will add fortune stickers in their offline stores to celebrate the holiday with overseas Chinese and tourists.
More than 185 million users have also won the chance to enter an online lucky draw to divide 500 million yuan (US$72.4 million) in cash rewards this year.
Sina鈥檚 microblogging site Weibo has also offered a virtual sticker campaign. On Chinese New Year鈥檚 Eve participants can win a share of 100 million yuan in cash bonuses.
Baidu is promoting short video and other services, and has offered 10 types of virtual stickers for users to collect. More than 17 million users have collected all 10 different stickers, to share a total of 200 million yuan.
China鈥檚 two top short video platforms, Kuaishou and Douyin (or TikTok), are launching campaigns during the holiday.
Kuaishou will send out red packets totaling 1 billion yuan on the eve of Chinese New Year on January 24.
Douyin is the exclusive social media partner of this year鈥檚 CCTV鈥檚 Spring Festival Gala and encourages users to submit Spring Festival-related clips and interact with the live broadcast on Chinese New Year鈥檚 Eve.
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