Crowds can be seen at Victoria Park this evening, as families took traditional lanterns along to take pictures with lantern installations. Such installations are also available at Sha Tin Park and Tin Shui Wai Park.

The six soccer pitches of Victoria Park are decorated with colorful lanterns, including a 6-meter-high merry-go-round lantern crafted by local papercraft master Hui Ka-hung, lanterns made by primary and secondary students, and others featuring vibrant flamingos, a happy elephant family, lovely moon birds and twin rabbits.

The light-up time is from 6.30pm to 11pm every evening, and will be extended to midnight on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

A lighting installation named "The Other Side of the Moon" created by local artist Dylan Kwok has been set up at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza to be displayed until October 3, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department announced.

The installation features six giant rabbit "phubbers" playing with their tablets, leading the public to reflect on the impact of the internet and communications between people nowadays.

The lanterns in Shatin Park are themed on the creatures of the underwater world such as clownish, dolphins, turtles and jellyfish.

A 5-meter-high phoenix lantern lights up Tin Shui Wai Park together with displays featuring rabbits, ladybugs, meerkats and robots.

The LCSD reminded that visitors are required to take appropriate precautionary measures, wear their own masks, maintain social distancing and avoid gathering in groups of more than four people at any time to safeguard public health.

The public is advised to visit other than the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival to avoid gatherings.