Additionally, there are the Zhonglu Bangjia-Jin Opera, Taigu Hanging Dragon, Zuoguan Small Flower Opera, Yushe King Whip, Qitai Yangge, Fengtai Small Opera, Pingyao Blind Book, Dialect Express, Lotus Flower Drop, Puppet Show, Shadow Show and other special arts worth seeing.
Cold Food Festival
The Cold Food Festival, known as the Cold Food Festival, is held two days before the Ching Ming Festival in the lunar calendar every year, and is one of the festivals that originated in Jinzhong and spread throughout the country. The reason is that during the Spring and Autumn Period, the minister of the State of Jin, Jie Zi Tui, was burned to death in Mian Shangyi (present-day Jiexiu), and the Duke of Jin, y grieved, ordered the whole country not to allow cooking over fire on this day, and to use dry or cold food to satisfy the hunger. After the Qin and Han dynasties, it gradually became a local custom and spread outward. During the Tang and Song dynasties, many literati and scholars used the Cold Food Festival to eulogize Jie Zi Tui's high moral character of "not saying anything. At the same time, because the two days before the Qingming Festival coincides with the "one hundred and five" (105 days after the winter solstice), so the folk and the Cold Food Festival as a wedding with dry funeral or temporary house burial ghost festival.
The Cold Food Festival is now combined with the Ching Ming Festival, mainly to honor ancestors and move graves.
Jinzhong City Temple Festival
For a long time, out of the prayers for good weather, national prosperity and people's peace, as well as the need to communicate with each other and trade goods. Jinzhong around the temple, Taoist temple around the gradual formation of a variety of temple fair. Now the old feudal colorful habits gradually disappeared, commodity circulation is increasingly prosperous, most of these temples will become the radiation of the surrounding areas of the commodity trade fair.
The main Shouyang Lengquan Temple, Jiexiu Mianshan Air King Ancient Buddha Temple, Qixian Gao Beicun Taishan Temple, Yushe Chengguan Taishan Temple, Yuji Chenghuang Temple (every year from the first day of the fifth lunar month to June 15), Zuoquan Yongfo Temple Temple, and the first day of the fifth lunar month to June 15), Zuoquan Yongfo Temple Temple, and the first day of the sixth lunar month. Zuoquan Yongfosi Temple Fair, Heshun Yunlongshan Longwang Temple Fair (held on the 23rd day of the 6th lunar month every year.) , Taigu Fengshan Sanqingguan Temple Fair (held annually from the second day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the meeting period in January), Xiyang Gaolu Township Dawang Temple Fair (held annually from the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the meeting period for five days), Lingshi SuXi Village Zishousi Temple Fair (held annually from the thirteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, **** 5 days), Jiexiu Zhanglan Township Taishan Temple Fair (held annually from the twentieth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar to the thirty-fourth day of the lunar calendar).
Jiexiu Zhanglan Town Taishan Temple
Zhanglan Town is located in the northeast of jiexiu county, for the Beijing-Shaanxi official road. The town is surrounded by walls, built four doors. The town cross street stores, industry complete. Temple fair from the annual lunar calendar September 20 to 30 end. In addition to silk, cloth, cosmetics, grain and oil, hemp and paper, ceramics and gold, silver, wood, antiques and cultural relics, there are also Lu'an Province and Hunyuan Prefecture's harness, Wenshui and Jiaocheng County's leather goods, Qinyuan and Wuxiang County's mountain goods, Datong Province's copper, Lingqiu County's woolen mules, Mongolia's horses and so on. Set in the north gate outside the donkey and horse conference, livestock, high turnover rate for the surrounding hundreds of miles rare. In addition, the local blind people have to pay to write a play for their special performance, commonly known as the "blind play".
Jizang Festival
The 30th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar is a religious festival called "Jizang Festival". Jizo is a bodhisattva on whom all beings in the world rely to save their suffering after the demise of Shakyamuni and before the birth of Maitreya Buddha. The King of Jizo once vowed to become a buddha after he had sent all beings to the world, so he often appeared in the human body, the sky, and the hells, to help with the suffering.