Sea Sacrifice
Sea Sacrifice Coastal fishermen in the Qingdao area have had the custom of sacrificing to the sea on March 19 of the lunar calendar since ancient times.
Before anchoring in the spring flood, fishermen put offerings on the beach, burn incense and paper, and beg the god of the sea for blessings and peace.
This custom continues to this day, but the form and content of the sea festival has changed, known as the "Internet Festival", is to send fishermen to sea and wish for a good harvest festival.
The coast guard also took the opportunity to publicize the sea regulations and safety knowledge.
Jimo City, Tian Heng Town Zhou Gezhuang festival on the sea net ceremony is the most grand, dressed up hundreds of fishing boats moored beach, colorful net markers fluttering in the wind, firecrackers if the thunder, the horn vibration, a variety of folk performances have been on the stage, the stage, even singing 3 days and 3 nights, the scale of the very grand.
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Laoshan Taoist music
Laoshan Taoist music Taoist music is part of our folk music.
Laoshan is a Chinese Taoist resort, its Taoist music has unique features.
Laoshan Taoist music scripture, mostly by the evolution of ancient folk songs and folk horns, with a strong flavor of the Eastern Barbarians culture.
Later, the "Ten Side Scripture Rhythm", which was popular all over the country, was imported and integrated into the Laoshan Taoist music.
In the Jin Dynasty, the seven true Northern Chuanzhen Taoists came to Laoshan to preach by fax, especially Qiu Qiqi came to Laoshan three times, and widely exchanged Laoshan Taoist music with the Ten Directions Taoist music, which gradually formed a unique style and grade of Taoist music system.
Subsequently, the Laoshan Taoist music was divided into the "Inner Mountain School" and "Outer Mountain School", especially the outer mountain school of Taoist music using orchestral accompaniment, but also directly involved in a variety of folk activities, and promote the development of the Laoshan region of the folk wind music flourished.
Many of the old folk artists more masters of Laoshan Taoist music, many Taoist music in the folk song has been passed down to this day.
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Paper-cutting
Paper-cutting Qingdao folk paper-cutting has a long history and rich local color.
Every family cuts window flowers and puts up doorpaper to celebrate every New Year's Eve.
For wedding ceremonies, window, wall and ceiling flowers are also used to decorate the new house.
People often cut window flowers to assess the craftsmanship of the girl, daughter-in-law's heart and hand.
Qingdao region, especially in Huangdao District, the most famous folk paper-cutting, has a history of more than 300 years, and its paper-cutting in the Qing Dynasty was used as tribute.
In recent years, Qingdao folk paper-cutting has participated in many national folk art exhibitions and won awards, paper-cutting artists to Mexico, Sweden and other countries to make a live performance.
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Biscuit knocker
Biscuit knocker Qingdao region of rural fancy face painting has long been famous.
On festivals and celebrations, families would make some tasty and attractive fancy pastries to celebrate the occasion, and later on, they would make these pastries in special molds carved for the occasion.
These biscuits Knocker, also known as the "noodle mold", the shape is simple, the pattern using a combination of relief and line carving carved into the method, highly decorative.
Fish, peach, Yuanbao, lotus leaf, lotus seed, and Chinese zodiac symbolizing good luck made of noodle molds are beautifully shaped.
The noodle molds of Ge Village, Liucun Township, Jimo City, are famous far and wide, and the technique began in 1802 and has been passed down from generation to generation.
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Jimo lace
Jimo lace Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jimo County folk widely circulated "small buckle lock" (also known as pinch embroidery) and embroidery and other handcrafts, in 1918, the craftsmen Lu Zhongxi from the foreign foreign banks to introduce an Italian "hand lace" bottom sample, after he tried to do a successful job, it was widely spread.
Many folk craftsmen absorbed the characteristics and stitches of "small button locks", embroidery and other crafts in the process of production, making them intermingle with each other, and gradually formed a unique craft stitch called "Jimo Hand Held Lace".
Subsequently, it gradually became a variety of varieties, versatile and colorful "Jimo lace".
This craft is sold to Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia more than 40 countries and regions, in the international community enjoys the reputation of the "gem of the drawstring".
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Po Li red mat
Po Li red mat Jiaonan City, Po Li red mat has a long history, it is said to have begun in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, and then passed on from generation to generation, the braided mat technology will be in the area of the Po Li down to become a traditional family handicraft.
This mat is made of sorghum straw split into gabions, red and white two colors, cross weaving a variety of different patterns, so called red mat.
Because of its tight weave, clear texture, smooth and soft, beautiful and lightweight, it is loved by the folk, and is sold all over the country, and as a local local craft products to Beijing exhibition.
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Qingdao grass
Qingdao grass weaving grass weaving is Qingdao's traditional folk handicrafts, all over the rural areas belonging to the city of Pingdu in particular is the most famous.
Straw braided varieties of braids, hand-woven baskets, straw hats, tea coasters, cushions, curtains, grass carpets and other dozens of varieties, hundreds of varieties, the raw materials used are straw grass, jinshi grass, corn husk, cattail, thatch, cotton stalks and other dozens of plant straw and stems and leaves.
Rural women often use this handicraft as a family side business.
Qingdao grass weaving fine craftsmanship, beautiful shape, color coordination, elegance and simplicity, a small number of supply the domestic market, the bulk sold abroad.
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Jiaozhou Yangge
Jiaozhou Yangge, also known as the "ground Yangge", commonly known as "twisting the waist", "three bends", is one of the three major Yangge in Shandong Province.
Jiaozhou rice-planting song has a history of more than 230 years, the Qing Dynasty Jiaozhou Bao Yan Tun Zhao, Ma two families fled Guandong in 1764, along the way begging and singing, and gradually formed a kind of dance while singing form.
After returning to their hometown, after many years of transmission, continuous improvement, to 1863 will be the basic shape, dance, singing, accompaniment have a certain program.
10 actors are divided into drums, mallets, cuihua, fan women and other five lines, the performance program has a cross of plums, large pendulum team, is digging the heart, anti-digging the heart, two doors, etc., accompanied by musical instruments in addition to the suona, and gongs, drums, cymbals, cymbals, small cymbals, gongs, etc., singing songs have more than 30 cards.
After 1860, on the basis of Jiaozhou Yangge, Yangge Xiao Opera was created, with 35 scripts.
In 1957, Jiaozhou Yangge was performed in Beijing and won favorable comments.
Subsequently, 150 cultural and artistic organizations came to Jiaozhou to learn Jiaozhou Yangge, and Beijing National Dance Academy made Jiaozhou Yangge a compulsory course.
In 1991, Jiaozhou Rice-planting Song was awarded the prize of excellence in the "China's First Rice-planting Song Competition".
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Liuqiang
Liuqiang local theater.
It arose in the west of Jimo in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and evolved from the folk rap "Benjibang Drum".
In the Qianlong period, the "elbow drums" were introduced to Jimo, and local folk tunes, Yangge, gradually changed from rap to singing, although the form is simple, simple performance, but due to the rich native sound, lively and interesting and quite popular.
About a hundred years ago, it was influenced by Laiyang County's four-stringed dirge and began to be accompanied by a four-stringed huqin with suona.
At the beginning of the four-stringed huqin accompaniment, there was no standardized score, so the piano player and the actor could not fully coordinate, and could only work together to slip up, so it was called "slipping cavity".
Later, because of the word "slip" is not elegant, changed to "willow cavity", Jimo is also known as "willow cavity of the township".
Later, the opera became popular in the Jiaodong area and was introduced to Qingdao in the 1930s, where it was loved by women and the elderly.
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Maosheng
Maosheng local theater.
It originated from the "Elbow Drums".
In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the elbow drums were introduced to the Qingdao region of Jiaozhou, Jiaonan and other places, and the folk artists absorbed the strengths of the elbow drums, blended into the local folk tunes, and formed the local characteristics of "this elbow drum".
During the Xianfeng period in the Qing Dynasty, the "Benjiao Drum" was combined with the "Haiyao Tune" of northern Jiangsu Province to form a new singing style called "Baojiao Drum", also known as "Maojiao Drum".
Later, it absorbed the tunes of Jiaozhou Yangge and Zhucheng Yangge, and formed the original board, two boards, antiphonal, big sad tune, fast playing and slow singing and other board cavity system.
Folk artists in Jiaozhou, Jiaonan, Zhucheng, Gaomi and other places spontaneously formed many "Mao Elbow Drum" theater groups.
After 1949, "Mao Elbow Drum" was officially named "Mao Cavity", and its traditional repertoire consists of more than 120 plays.
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Dragon Lantern
Dragon Lantern Laoshan District, Qingdao, has been known as the "House of the Immortals, the House of the Spiritual", the Dragon Lantern Dance has long been famous.
Laoshan District, Beizhai Town, five dragons in the village of the Dragon Dance began in the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi nine years (1870), the dragon body 9 sections, a total length of 11 meters, the dragon body for the dark gray, the Spring Festival every year in addition to performances in the villages must be performed in the county town of Jimo, the string of dragons, the size of the five flowers, rolling dragons and other performances program, a hundred miles around the famous.
Zhonghan Town, Sun Jiazhuang in the Guangxu years to run the dance of the dragon lanterns of the Tonglehui, the dance of the dragon body is 40 meters long, and at night the body of the dragon lit candles, glowing, spectacular.
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Nine Lions
Nine Lions, also known as the Nine Lions Dance, was choreographed by the villagers of Geli in the north of the city of Jimo in 1924, drawing on the Double Lion Dance.
Among the 12 performers, 4 of them are dressed as 2 lionesses, 7 of them are dressed as 1 son, and 1 of them is holding an embroidered ball. In the sound of drums and gongs, the 7 son lions are jumping and leaping around the 2 lionesses, and the one holding the embroidered ball is interspersed among them.
The performance has various programs, through a series of dance movements, showing the temperament, demeanor and character of the lion.
The performance of the Nine Lions is a hard-frame lantern dance, which requires the actors to have a certain martial arts foundation.
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Fisherman's Feast
The Fisherman's Feast is a special feast that combines the dietary varieties, dietary habits and dietary styles of Qingdao's farmers and fishermen, and there are more than 80 varieties of dishes and food***.
The feast is made of fresh small seafood and Laoshan local specialties as raw materials, which are standardized and processed by complicated cooking procedures to become a feast full of local flavor, showing rich connotation of fishermen's dietary culture.
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Jimo Old Wine
Jimo Old Wine, also known as Jimo Yellow Wine, can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago, and is officially recorded as having been brewed in the Northern Song Dynasty.
It is brewed from corn, wheat quill and Laoshan mineral water in accordance with the six ancient methods of brewing wine, which are: "the corn must be in order, the quill must be in time, the water must be in good condition, the pottery must be good, and the fire agent must be obtained".
The wine is reddish-brown in color, not overflowing, crystalline and pure, mellow and refreshing, and has the effect of soothing the tendons and activating the blood, replenishing the qi and nourishing the spirit, which is y praised by ancient and modern celebrities.
During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, it was sold throughout the country.
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Haiyunan Sugar Balls
Haiyunan Sugar Balls Haiyunan is located in Haiyun Street, Sifang District, Qingdao City, was built in the Ming Dynasty.
In the old days, the sixteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar was the temple fair of the nunnery, which was very popular and was one of the three traditional temple fairs in the city.
Because of the temple fair to sell hawthorn sugar balls in particular, over time, it is customarily known as "Haiyunan sugar ball will be".
In 1986, Qingdao resumed this popular folk festival, which lasted for three days.
On the day of the festival, there are many folk art activities such as Mao cavity, Liu cavity, shadow, juggling, paper-cutting, New Year's paintings, rice-planting song competition, gongs and drums competition, a wide range of candy balls of different shapes, various kinds of snacks and handicrafts, and 1 million Chinese and foreign tourists come to the festival every year.
Since 1990, the Haiyunan Sugar Ball Festival has been listed as a national key tourism project.
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Qingxi'an Radish Festival
Qingxi'an Radish Festival Qingxi'an is also known as the "Jade Emperor Temple", commonly known as the "Lower Village Temple".
Located in Qingdao City, Shibei District, Daokou Road.
Originally built in the Yuan Dynasty, now demolished.
In the old days, on the ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Jade Emperor's birthday, there is a grand temple fair here, one of the three major urban temple fair.
And because the folk have "the first nine days of the first month to eat carrots do not have a toothache, and can cure all diseases," said, so the radish has become the main commodity of the temple fair.
Over time, there is the name of "Qingxian radish will".
And because the nunnery is in the town of Taitung, it is also known as "Taitung Radish Society".
In 1991, Qingdao resumed the "Turnip Festival" as a folk festival, which lasted for three days.
The festival was a three-day event with a large number of merchants, a large flow of people, a wide variety of commodities, and a popular radish carving contest, which attracted more than 1 million visitors.
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Qingdao Cherry Blossom Society
Qingdao Cherry Blossom Society Qingdao Cherry Blossom Society Qingdao Cherry Blossom introduced in the history of nearly a hundred years, more planted in Zhongshan Park, a total of more than 20,000 plants.
Qingdao Cherry Blossom Festival has a history of more than 80 years, and it is held in Zhongshan Park from April to May every year.
At that time, thousands of cherry blossoms bloomed on both sides of the park's Cherry Blossom Road, and the blossoms were as brilliant as clouds, and the public came to visit the park to enjoy the blossoms in the spring with their young and old, and with their friends and relatives.
Qingdao city suburbs of many counties, cities and provinces in the region of the masses, also came to Qingdao to this event.
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Pingdu Dazeshang Grapes
Pingdu Dazeshang Grapes The Dazeshang District in the northern part of Pingdu City has been known as the "town of grapes", where grapes are traditionally a local specialty.
In the old days, the 22nd day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar was a traditional festival for the farmers in Dazeshan to pray for the blessing of the "God of Wealth".
In 1987, Pingdu City, according to the wishes of the majority of fruit farmers, this day was changed to "Dazeshang Grape Festival", the majority of fruit farmers singing and dancing to celebrate the grape harvest.
In 1991, Pingdu City decided to change the "Dazeshang Grape Festival" to "Pingdu Grape Festival", which is scheduled on September 1-3 every year, and has become an important folk festival integrating culture, tourism, and economic and trade.
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Qingdao International Beer Festival
Qingdao International Beer Festival began in 1991, is to beer as a medium, integration of trade, tourism, culture as one of the large-scale festivals.
Since its inception, dozens of countries and regions and domestic brewers have participated in the successive sessions, with more than 1 million visitors from all over the country.
In 1994, Qingdao International Beer City, located in Shilantao National Tourist Resort, was built on an area of 35 hectares with a total construction area of 470,000 square meters, and became the permanent venue for the Qingdao International Beer Festival.
The annual beer festival opens in July or August and lasts 14 to 16 days.
Since the 7th Beer Festival in 1997, it has been organized by 6 departments of the state and the city of Qingdao***.