Jiangsu's characteristic customs are 1, Cold Mountain Temple New Year's Eve listening to bells activities, 2, Jinling Lantern Festival, 3, China Nanjing International Plum Blossom Festival, 4, Yunlong Mountain Temple Folk Tour 5, Qintong will be the boat festival, 6, Xuyi Lobster Festival.
1, Cold Mountain Temple New Year's Eve listening to the sound of the bell activities
"Cold Mountain Temple outside the city of Gusu, the sound of the bell at midnight to the passenger boat". Cold Mountain Temple to listen to the sound of bells since 1979, has been successfully organized twenty-four sessions, is China's earliest and largest tourism festival activities. The traditional Chinese New Year's Eve dinner kicks off the bell ringing event, with cultural performances, lucky draws and other activities to cheer up the visitors. The bell-listening activity reaches its climax as tourists arrive at the Fengqiao Scenic Area, where traditional folk activities such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walkers, lake boats and sedan chairs are displayed at the Cold Mountain Temple and on Fengqiao Street; monks in the temple do their last homework of the year in the midst of smoke; and on the eve of zero o'clock, visitors listen to the 108 bells rang by the presiding officer of the Cold Mountain Temple. The sound of the bells is pious and auspicious as it removes the worries of the old year, and the firecrackers celebrate the arrival of the New Year in a joyful and lively manner. It is a great opportunity to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to pray for blessings.
Time: The evening of December 31 every year
Place: Suzhou Cold Mountain Temple
2, Jinling Lantern Festival
Began in the Six Dynasties, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to legend, during the Hongwu years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the lanterns to show that the people are happy with the people, *** celebration of peace; since then for hundreds of years, it has become a custom, and has not declined to this day. Lanterns during more than 200 varieties, hundreds of thousands of distinctive shapes of lanterns gathered here, the flow of light, converging into an ocean of lights. In particular, the public tied their own lanterns, a thousand forms, very distinctive. Tourists wandering around, as if in the sea of lights, the world of light.
Time: the first day of the first month of the year to the end
Location: Nanjing Fuzimiao Square, Dacheng Hall
3, China Nanjing International Plum Blossom Festival
Nanjing plum planting and appreciation of the long history of plums, since the Six Dynasties to date, especially one of the four major plum orchards of the plum blossom of the mountain as the best. Nanjing International Plum Blossom Festival during the festival, Nanjing will be "plum" as the theme, flowers as a medium, to "plum" will be friends, organized a variety of cultural tourism, trade and economic and trade negotiation activities.
Time: the last Saturday in February to March 18 every year
Place: Nanjing Zhongshan Scenic Area Plum Blossom Hill
4, Yunlongshan temple folk tour
Yunlongshan Temple began in the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period, Xuzhou and even one of the most influential folkloric activities in the Huaihai Economic Zone. During the temple fair, tens of thousands of people flock to it, and the scene is lively and extraordinary. Various kinds of well-made and vividly modeled folk handicrafts are the main characters of the temple fair, and paper-cutting, noodle man, wooden play, clay play, cloth art and other knick-knacks can be seen everywhere, which make people love to get their hands on them.
Time: March 28 - April 3 every year Location: Xuzhou Yunlong Mountain
Contents: temple fair; see lion dance, stilts and other folk art performances; taste local snacks; folk handicrafts exhibition.
5, Qintong will boat festival
Jiangsu Province, Jiangyan City, Qintong Town is located in Jiangsu Province, the river area. Here the river network is intertwined, open water. Whenever the Qingming Festival, four townships and eight towns of hundreds of boats will gather Qintong Lake, tens of thousands of boat people to meet here, held a boat festival rich in folklore, the audience of more than 100,000 tourists, the magnificent scene, thrilling competition, colorful performances, known as the folk culture of the view, the water township style of the exposition. By people at home and abroad praised as "the world will boat number Qintong". China Qintong boat festival, long history, according to historical records, the activity began in the Southern Song Dynasty, is to commemorate the national heroes who died here against the Jin Dynasty and organized.
Time: The day after Qingming every year
Location: Qintong Town, Jiangyan City, Jiangsu Province
6, Xuyi Lobster Festival
Xuyi Thirteen-Spice Lobster is a famous dish newly created by Xuyi County of Huai'an City in recent years, with inexpensive langoustine shrimp as raw material, made from more than ten Chinese herbs and special methods, with bright color and delicious taste, which is popular among consumers. Since 2000, the People's Government of Xuyi County and Nanjing Yangzi Evening News have jointly organized the "China (Xuyi) Lobster Festival", which adopts a market-oriented operation method to vigorously promote the brand of thirteen-scented lobster, fully demonstrating the optimal combination of "lobster dinner, cultural meal and tourism package", thus driving the development of the local economy and culture.
Time: late June every year
Location: the main venue is located in Xuyi County
Qintong boat festival introduction
Qingming Festival (Qintong boat), Jiangyan City, Jiangsu Province, folklore, one of the national intangible cultural heritage, Qintong boat folklore activities, also known as the "water Qingming Festival", has a history of more than 800 years. Has a history of more than eight hundred years. Every year during the Qingming Festival, Jiangyan City, Jiangsu Province, Qintong Town and the surrounding more than two hundred villages, every family has to pay tribute to their ancestors. Qingming the next day, each family boat paddle to the messy graveyard to pay tribute to the nameless fallen soldiers, and then more than a thousand only for the boat, dragon boat, Penny boat, rowing boat, abduction of women's boats converge on Qin Lake, *** with the same to participate in performances, competitive activities, participants and the audience came to the wind up to 100,000 people. Activity consists of a number of links, the program in order for the selection of the boat, test the water, paving the boat, rituals, to the meeting, boat race, water cultural performances, send the head of the Penny, the reception, sing the night opera.
Activities
Boat Racing
Ten days before the Ching Ming Festival, the head of the meeting in villages where there is a meeting of the boat will be the head of the meeting to set up a flag in the village. He is the administrative head of the village and is responsible for the safety of the meeting boats. The selected boat owners were happy to do so. After the procedures of testing the water, laying out the boats and going to the meeting, the most exciting stage of the boat race is entered. After the two boats are aligned, the gong begins to be raised, "Tang! Tang!" twice, giving the call to race, followed by the sailors shouting in unison, "Down! Down!" The sound is loud and clear, and the Pennyman's two arms are open, both hands swinging the Penny, straight two up and two down, the Penny and the boat gangs touch each other to make a "duh - duh" impact sound, raise the Penny as a spear array, down the Penny as a python into the water. Rhythmic gong is getting tighter and tighter, the boat immediately rose from the water, like an arrow flying away from the string. Two boat race, there are winners and losers, such as the winner in the process, "Tangtangtang" a mess of gongs, said to stop. Constantly than, repeatedly race, the boat race to the climax. When the end of the boat race, the boat festival activities near the end, the hilarious theater, cocktail party, send the head of the Penny trilogy and highlight the climax.
Performance
Per usual, before the boat race, the big villages of the top people, has long been planning to set up a stage in the open air to sing a play to thank the gods of the matter. Yang Opera, Huai Opera, Peking Opera, acrobatics ...... villages pay for theater troupes to perform on the night of the end of the boat race. There are also do not invite the troupe, but by the village of the entertainment enthusiasts organized to sing and dance, or ask the film team to play the film. A manor, this night if there is no performance activities, the manor will feel no pain, not enjoyable. ReceptionThe night of the end of the boat race, the Pennymen, without exception, have to hold a warm reception.
Sending the first Penny
It is customary to send the first Penny to wish someone a son. This is very energetic for individual infertile couples or newlyweds, and it is a happy event for those who can be favored by the masters and become the winner of the first prize. As soon as the winner of the first prize is chosen at the cocktail party, some enthusiastic person will inform the family of the happy news. The family will immediately get ready to welcome the winners, and the whole family will be full of joy, waiting for the arrival of the winners. Once the first Penny enters the door, the lights and candles are brilliant, firecrackers are blasting, and the host offers sweets and fragrant tea to the Pennymen, thanking them one by one. The sender is full of words "wishing for an early birth". The winner keeps promising, "I will invite you all to a wedding banquet." If the winner of the first pole happens to give birth to a "precious son" that year, it will be a big event. First of all, each of the boat's polemen would be given a new pole, and those who were rich would automatically organize a banquet for all the masters. As you can imagine, a boat will have a head of Penny, a manor, how many boats, how many head of Penny, pulling the number of happy people. QinTong area, village and community folks, year after year, is to such and such a healthy custom of directing a scene to seek the joy of the play, so that the atmosphere of joy shrouded in the water.
4, Yunlongshan temple folk tour
Yunlongshan temple fair began in the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period, is Xuzhou and even the Huaihai Economic Zone, one of the most influential folk activities. During the temple fair, tens of thousands of people flock to it, and the scene is lively and extraordinary. Various kinds of well-made and vividly modeled folk handicrafts are the main characters of the temple fair, and paper-cutting, noodle man, wooden play, clay play, cloth art and other knick-knacks can be seen everywhere, which make people love to get their hands on them.
Time: March 28 - April 3 every year Location: Xuzhou Yunlong Mountain
Contents: temple fair; see lion dance, stilts and other folk art performances; tasting local snacks; folk handicrafts exhibition.
5, Qintong boat festival
Jiangyan City, Jiangsu Province, Qintong Town is located in Jiangsu Province, the river area. Here the river network is intertwined, open water. Whenever the Qingming Festival, four townships and eight towns of hundreds of boats will gather Qintong Lake, tens of thousands of boat people to meet here, held a boat festival rich in folklore, the audience of more than 100,000 tourists, the magnificent scene, thrilling competition, colorful performances, known as the folk culture of the view, the water township style of the exposition. By people at home and abroad praised as "the world will boat number Qintong". China Qintong boat festival, long history, according to historical records, the activity began in the Southern Song Dynasty, is to commemorate the national heroes who died here against the Jin Dynasty and organized.
Time: The day after Qingming every year
Location: Qintong Town, Jiangyan City, Jiangsu Province
6, Xuyi Lobster Festival
Xuyi Thirteen-Spice Lobster is a famous dish newly created by Xuyi County of Huai'an City in recent years, with inexpensive langoustine shrimp as raw material, made from more than ten Chinese herbs and special methods, with bright color and delicious taste, which is popular among consumers. Since 2000, the People's Government of Xuyi County and Nanjing Yangzi Evening News have jointly organized the "China (Xuyi) Lobster Festival", which adopts a market-oriented operation method to vigorously promote the brand of thirteen-scented lobster, fully demonstrating the optimal combination of "lobster dinner, cultural meal and tourism package", thus driving the development of the local economy and culture.
Time: late June every year
Place: the main venue in Xuyi County