1, Spring Festival
Time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: Chongqing's most obvious symbol is the streets and alleys can be seen Lapis lazuli. Chongqing locals like to put yellowish Lap-mei flowers in their homes as decoration during the Spring Festival because the petals of Lap-mei flowers have a refreshing flavor that makes people feel comfortable. Especially for young people, flowers decorate the room will be more romantic. Chongqing Nanshan is a place where waxberry flowers are abundant. From the beginning of the waxing month, you can see farmers from the suburbs carrying cages filled with budding waxberry flowers, whether in the flower market or on the ordinary streets. When you are shopping, you can often also come across many citizens holding wax plum blossoms, which are also very inexpensive.
2, Qingming Festival
Time: Around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar
Introduction: In Chongqing, Qingming is also known as the Cold Food Festival, where people go out to the countryside to enjoy a walk in the woods, bring some snacks, snacks, or some drinks and so forth, and go to the countryside together as a family. One more thing that people do is to break willow, on the way out of the countryside or after sweeping the graves, if they come across willow trees on the way back or if there are many willow trees in the place where people live, they will break willow and braid it into a ring and wear it on their heads. In addition to folding willows, people also have a custom of sticking willows into the soil, which is particularly easy to grow during this season. Swinging is also a custom of the Qingming Festival, may now be able to see the swing in very few places, and now the swing has become a kind of amusement facilities, under normal circumstances, we can still see in the park or some scenic spots or playgrounds.
3, Dragon Boat Festival
Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month
Introduction: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the Dragon Boat Festival, the folk in Chongqing is a very grand traditional festival, people in this day have to drink xionghuang wine, inserted aiye, hanging calamus, eat zongzi and salted eggs custom. Some places will be made of moxa leaves, moxa root like a "tiger" like the "Ai Hu" hanging in the center of the lintel, the calamus into a sword hanging under the house. About this tradition, there are two folk say, one says is hanging ai leaves, calamus in order to commemorate the qu yuan, due to the low productivity of society at that time, the people are poor, no money to buy satin fabric to make for the qu yuan invocation of the soul of the gleaming flag, can only be local materials, with ai leaves, calamus to replace; another saying drink xionghuang wine, hanging ai leaves is to avoid evil spirits and kill the poison, to prevent the plague, to protect the people's well-being.
4, Mid-Autumn Festival
Time: 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: the Tujia people in Qianjiang area, in the third to fifteenth day of the first month of each year, there are large-scale rituals, prayers, festivities, during which the pendulum dance. At the time of the event, the bustling, hundreds of miles around the Tujia people, men wearing Silankappu, women with colorful dress, come in teams. Pendulum before the Hall, decorated with lanterns, sorcerer wearing a phoenix crown and high hat, waist tie eight skirt, hand-cranked brass bells Division knife, hands and feet in command. Three guns, drums and music, suddenly singing, men and women with each other, dancing and dancing, all night long. "Ten thousand red lanterns, a thousand stacks of people, a piece of lingering swinging hands song." The Pendulum Dance originated from the ancient Bayu Dance, with single pendulum, double pendulum and pirouette pendulum movements, showing ceremonial rites, labor scenes or battle movements, with a bright rhythm, beautiful dance posture, and primitive breath that shocks the heart.
5, Lahai Festival
Time: the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: Lahai winter, people will want to eat Lahai congee to warm their stomachs, but in Chongqing is very capricious to eat ice, according to the old man's argument, Lahai ice can cure all diseases. The day before Laha, people usually use steel pots to scoop up water to make ice, and wait until Laha Festival to take off the pots of ice and crack the ice into pieces. It is said that the ice on this day is very magical, eat it in the following year will not have a stomach ache. With this icy and clean scene, the Zhuangzi people wished for a "good year of snow" and good luck in the coming year. In the meantime, children have the habit of eating ice at this time. Laha eat ice is a traditional custom, pay attention not to eat too much.
6, Chongqing Maguikou Temple Fair
Time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar
Address: Shapingba District, Chongqing Maguikou Ancient Town
Introduction: the custom of the temple fair, there have been in ancient times. Now the date of the temple fair has been basically fixed for the first day of the lunar calendar, the 15th, and other Sakyamuni's birth date, Goddess of Mercy's birthday (February 19th), the Spring Festival, and the temporary decision date (such as animal release). The main activities of the temple fair are to burn incense and worship Buddha, ask for wishes, monks or the main temple chanting sutras to do the deed, and eat fasting rice (vegetarian). Magnetic ware mouth BaoLun temple, phoenix mountain temple, the first and fifteenth temple fair, believers in thousands, visitors tourists are also a lot of people.
7, Chongqing Dazu Bao top incense festival
Time: the first month of the lunar calendar to March
Address: Dazu County, Chongqing
Introduction: every year in the middle of the first month of the year to the beginning of March before and after the first forty to fifty days in the Dazu Bao top held in the second month of the lunar calendar on the first day of the month, the fifteenth day of the nineteenth day of the mountain to worship the Buddha's people the most. The 19th of Guanyin Bodhisattva's birthday for the incense will be the period, especially lively. Although the top of the incense will be a Buddhist event, but has been integrated into tourism, entertainment, folklore, trade and other activities.
8, ghost city temple fair
Time: the third day of the third lunar month
Address: fengdu county, chongqing
Introduction: Ghost city temple fair to the famous mountain will be the main content of the people's activities, during the temple fair on both sides of the streets of fengdu candle lights flickering, colorful banners fluttering. Famous Mountain, Shuanggui Mountain colorful lanterns such as the sea, incense smoke. Various kinds of cultural and entertainment activities, such as square dances, street performances and stage performances based on the folklore of various ghost towns as well as the "taking of relatives by the son of Yin Tianzi" and the "tour of the city god Bodhisattva", make tourists forget to come back to the city.
9, Chongqing International Beer and Beverage Festival
Time: July every year
Address: Yuzhong District, Chongqing
Introduction: Chongqing International Beer and Beverage Festival is a set of booze, carnival, arts and entertainment, summer cooler, beer brand selection in one of the cultural festivals, is also known as the Munich of Chongqing! It is also known as the Munich Oktoberfest of Chongqing, and is usually held in Coral Park in Yuzhong District in summer.
10, Chongqing Food and Culture Festival
Time: September to October every year
Address: the main venue in Chongqing, branch venues in Yongchuan City, Hechuan City, etc.
Introduction: Chongqing Food and Culture Festival is held in October every year. The festival is held during the food and beverage stores, famous hot pot, famous dishes, famous snacks, excellent farmhouse and other evaluation activities, and in the county's central business district set up a "night market street". If you want to taste the famous snacks and flavorful dishes, don't miss it.
11, Chongqing Tongliang Dragon Lantern Festival
Time: October every year
Address: Tongliang County, Chongqing
Introduction: "dragon" as the center of large-scale art activities, held in Tongliang County in October every year, the content is very rich. Very rich, there are "Spirit of the Dragon" large-scale song and dance party, singer and comedian party, "Wind of the Dragon" Chinese Dragon Dance Performance Invitational Competition, "Dragon's Origin" Chinese Dragon Culture and Dragon Dance Academic Seminar and "Dragon Rhythm" Dragon Culture and Art Exhibition.
12, Dazu Stone Carving Festival
Time: October every year
Address: Chongqing, Dazu Longgang Town
Introduction: Dazu stone carving was created in the Late Tang Dynasty, prevalent in the two Song Dynasty, to the Buddhist statues, Confucianism and Taoism statues and Chen, is the late grottoes in China's art of statue model. Dazu stone carvings are grand in scale, rich in content, focused on statues, exquisite skills, in our country's religious, artistic, historical and cultural history, all occupy an important position. "Dazu stone carvings, vivid materials, rich in imagination, all-encompassing. It is not only a rich cultural treasure trove, but also a vivid historical picture scroll. Dazu stone carvings to the North Mountain, Baodingshan stone carvings of the most concentrated, the richest content, the most exquisite art, the most exquisite statues, in 1961 was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, in 1999 was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Festival activities are stone carving art style show, stone carving art culture party, economic and trade talks, Dazu stone carving art symposium.
13, catch Autumn Festival
Time: every year in the autumn
Introduction: the Miao people can sing and dance, the Miao song or high-pitched and impassioned, or the clear more melodious, people do not meet the song to meet, everyone will be singing, to song greetings, with the song of the story, with the song to send love. Song, is the shadow of the Miao people inch by inch, or young men and women to express their feelings, the intercommunication of the heart of the big matchmaker. Wedding, more away from the song, the master of the guests to sing thank you song, the matchmaker to sing thank you song, we have to sing to the newlyweds blessing song, friends and family to race each other song, song, disk song, even sing three days and three nights. "Catch the autumn" is the annual traditional festival of the Miao people, the day of the autumn, the cottage of the Miao people, dressed in festive costumes, from all directions to the autumn field, the field of drums and gongs, singing, playing the swings, on the knife ladder, lion dance, play dragon lanterns, jumping monkey inspired by the drums and dance, song stage race song, a lively and unusual. Young men and women use the "catching the fall" to identify couples, song Lang song lady show off their singing voice.