What are the major events and local customs in each region of Shandong Province.

1, Qingdao Sugar Ball Festival:

Qingdao Sugar Ball Festival held in Qingdao Haiyunan, held basically from the sixteenth day of the first month around the beginning of the time, lasted one week. Mainly held in Haiyunan and Haiyun Plaza, Jiahe Road Street Garden as the center of the radiation of the surrounding roads.

Haiyunan in Qingdao's Shibei District, also known as the "Da Shi Nian", was built in the late Ming Dynasty, the main hall of Guanyin, commonly known as the "Old Mother Temple", Qingdao, after the founding of the city, the street in front of the temple is called Shipping Street, was the commercial center of the Sifang one.

Square area of workers and fishermen, Haiyunan enshrined a lot of God, Guanyin outside of Guan Gong, the Dragon King, Bikan, Luban, Taishang Laojun and so on. In the old days, the incense burned brightly, and the worshippers were mostly fishermen, so it was set on the 16th day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, that is, the first big tide day of the new year, as the main day of the temple fair.

Whenever the temple fair, the incense is more prosperous, while the temple before the temple after the temple more singing, donkey, stilt walkers, running dry boat and other recreational activities, food, toys, vendors also have gathered, which sells sugar balls (Beijing called "sugar gourd") is especially numerous, with hawthorn, soft dates, yam, tangerine Ning and other made of sugar balls, have to go on the market, hawking! Each one of them was characterized by its own characteristics. After a long time, the masses will be called Haiyunan Temple Fair for the sugar ball fair.

2, Weifang Kite Festival:

The Weifang Kite Festival is held in Weifang on the third Saturday of April every year, with more than 30 countries and regions from all over the world participating in the event, and it is the earliest large-scale local festival in China to be crowned with the title of "International" and recognized by the international community. Since 1984, it has been successfully held for thirty-three years, and the model of "kite-led, cultural and sports stage, economic and trade opera" created by it has been widely borrowed by all parts of the country.

Weifang, ancient name "Weixian", also known as "Kite", specialties such as kites, New Year's paintings, famous at home and abroad. Since ancient times, Weixian is a famous city in the North China Sea, the literary style is flourishing, the science and armor, economic prosperity.

The Qianlong period had "South Suzhou, North Weixian", Weifang kites can be traced back to the source of the great thinker Mo Zhai made the first Weifang International Kite Festival only "wooden kite", so far there have been more than 2,000 years of history, but really began to flourish, to the folk is the Ming Dynasty.

By the Ming Dynasty, the kites had really begun to flourish and become popular among the people.

To the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Weifang began to appear specializing in kite-making folk artists. In Weifang County, there were many kite artists along the Bailang River who made kites, which were famous for their novelty and good-looking, high and stable take-off. Year after year, there were kite competitions organized by folk or government, and even many foreign kite vendors and kite artists came to Weifang. This is the origin of Weifang kite competition in the Weifang City District Bailanghe large set of the prototype.

3, Tianheng Sea Festival:

Tianheng Sea Festival is mainly a fishermen's festival, originated in Zhougezhuang Village, Tianheng Town, Shandong Province, the local traditional folk activities. It has a history of more than 500 years.

By the local government's careful planning, packaging and promotion, this ancient festival has developed into a Shandong Province and even the country's well-known brand of folklore festivals, but also the modern yearning for the carnival, attracting countless Chinese and foreign tourists every year, and experts in folklore, economic policy research and other aspects of the Chinese all over the world to come.

The day before the sea festival, fishermen clean the Dragon King Temple on the beach, hang big red lanterns, set up incense burners, sacrificial cases, paste couplets, and put on red colors. At the same time in front of the Dragon King Temple on the beach tie pine and cypress Dragon Gate, hanging plaques on it, hung full of colorful lanterns, posting large red couplets.

The owners of the boats are busy driving their colorful fishing boats to the bay in front of the village, with their bows facing the sea, lined up in a row, placing their fishing gear and nets neatly, and then anchoring and waiting for the next day to officially hold the Sea Ceremony.

On the day of the ceremony, the fishermen started to make offerings on the beach in front of the Dragon King Temple by boat. A bunch of bamboo poles tied into a few meters high "standing tassel" standing in the wind, a table full of face sculpture of the holy insects, peaches, fish, all kinds of sweets, snacks, etc., the table in front of the red lacquer table, a head of black boar head forward, a big red rooster in high spirits.

The fishermen organize the yellow framed paper to be burned, set up incense burners, and raise thousands of red firecrackers into the air.

4, Tai'an Dongyue Temple Fair:

Taiyue Temple Fair began at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the rise of the Song Dynasty, the heyday of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the enduring, set religion, folklore, folk art and trade activities in one of China's folk culture event.

Tai Dongyue Taishan is the first of the five mountains, is the Buddha and the Taoist co-existence of sacred mountains. The Dai Temple at the foot of Mount Tai is dedicated to the god of Mount Tai, Dongyue Daidi.

The legend says that March 28th of the summer calendar for the birthday of the God of Mount Tai, the emperors and kings of the past dynasties more than on this day in the Dai Temple to hold Zen Ceremony. The emperor's celebrations, Buddhist and Taoist religious activities, as well as the people's pilgrimage to the mountain incense activities, in the Dai Temple area formed to trade activities and entertainment activities as the main content of the Dongyue Temple Fair.

Republic of China years, every year, the temple period, good men and women come from afar to the mountain incense is not endless on the way, the residents of the mountain more than the sale of incense and wax paper ingot, business is most prosperous. There are many beggars along the way.

After the founding of the country, the temple will be transformed into a material exchange conference, "Cultural Revolution" in the interruption.

Tai'an City in 1986 to restore the Taishan Temple Fair, the location was changed to the Taishan mountain road, to the red door, Wangmu pool as the center. The new temple fair retained some of the contents of the traditional temple fair, and enriched with new content and new features, set tour, play, eat, fun, economic and trade in one, the scale and impact of the year by year to expand.

5. Heze International Peony Fair:

Heze International Peony Fair is a major tourism festival in Heze City, Shandong Province, which is organized by the People's Government of Heze City, and a large number of economic, trade and cultural activities are held in each fair.

Since 1992, it has been held in mid-April every year for 20 days, and has been successfully held for twenty-six sessions until April 15, 2017, with a cumulative total of ****receiving more than 30 million Chinese and foreign tourists, and more than 570 leaders from the central government and state ministries and commissions visiting Heze.

"Heze International Peony Fair" is one of the famous peony tourism festivals in China, and in recent years, it has been honored with the titles of "Top Ten National Flower Festivals" and "China's Most Influential Brand Exhibition". In recent years, it has won the titles of "Top Ten National Flower Festivals" and "China's Most Influential Brand Exhibition", and Heze City has also been awarded the honorary titles of "China's Outstanding Tourism City" and "China's Outstanding Festivals City".

By organizing the Peony Fair, not only did it increase the popularity of Heze peony and make Heze become the nationally renowned "Peony City of China", but also promoted the construction of the new socialist countryside and drove the overall economic and social development of Heze.

Heze was officially named as the "Peony Capital of China" by the China Flower Association in March 2012, and the "Peony Capital of China" by the China Flower Association. "Peony Capital of China".

The aim of the flower fair is to "use flowers as a medium to make friends, set up a stage for culture, sing for economy and trade, develop tourism and revitalize the economy", which fully reflects the characteristics of Heze as the "hometown of peony".

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