Qingyan Town is a provincial cultural relics protection unit, a famous historical and cultural town, and a national civilized market. It has historical culture, architectural culture, religious culture, farming culture, food culture, revolutionary traditional cultural heritage, and multi-ethnic settlement. Every year in the first month of the dragon dance, lantern jumping, the first nine to twenty of the first month of the Miao jumping field, the first fifteenth of the dragon, light activities, and the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the "tour of the hundred diseases", the 19th of the second month of the lunar calendar, September 19th of the Goddess of Mercy, and so on, the scene is very lively.
Putting "Kongming lanterns"
The burning of Kongming lanterns is usually after the release of the Baoding. Kongming lantern lampshade is cylindrical, about five feet high, above the top. It looks like a big Tuanwu buckled upside down. The bottom of the lampshade paste in the diameter of three feet or so of the round bamboo circle, bamboo circle bundled with a cross-shaped fine wire frame, wire frame tied to the center with vegetable oil fried through the paper twist. In the light of the lanterns, the first bundle of straw burning, so that its heat will be soft and long lampshade full of strong, and then light the paper twists, to keep the air in the hood of the heat.
Putting "water rats"
"Water rats" is a kind of special small fireworks put on the water, the general holiday can be set off. It is a layer of straw paper rolled paste, and then painted with a variety of colors divination eyes, aiming bar, ears and so on. After the broom with paraffin oil package seal rat body. Inside the two layers of gunpowder, a layer of grams of medicine, to the fuse connected in turn. When burning, first choose a calm and wide water surface, the water rats ignited into the water rats will be a while. A moment to drill into the water, a moment and then surfaced, like a live fresh real rat, very interesting.
Put "Baoding"
Put "Baoding", also called "put bonsai". Baoding is a kind of large-scale fireworks, which is usually set off on the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month after the "light". Qingyan's "Baoding" six feet high, about three feet in diameter, "Baoding" lower cylindrical, the upper part seems to be conical. "Bao Ding" with bamboo braided frame, white cotton paper framed appearance, tripod installed in accordance with the program a variety of fireworks and a variety of characters or birds and animals in the shape of a "rocket", "drip flower", "bullock", "spark tube" and similar to today's magic bullet and so on a variety of "gift flowers", modeling content according to the favorite stories around. Qingyan's are: "Fairy Scattering Flowers", "The Legend of the White Snake", "Eighteen Sent" and other images of ancient dramas. The Baoding is connected by a general lead wire to the various fireworks devices and the various layers of modeling in order to form a whole.
At the same time, the fireworks are sprayed to the sky with countless flashes of "golden flowers and silver pillars", "mice" jumped out of the tripod cover, "jumping" in the crowd, scurrying everywhere; "rockets", "rockets", "rockets", "rockets", "rockets", "rockets", "rockets", "rockets", "rockets", "rockets", "rockets" and so on. Scurrying; "rocket" a one after another whooshing to the sky, like a trailing fire shooting star. Cut through the sky; there are countless "fire dragons" flying in the air; "drop flower" drip drip drip drip sprinkle countless shiny "pearl". Finally, there are auspicious banners such as "Good harvest" and "National prosperity and peace" to show the people's good wishes. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, at the end of 1939, Zhejiang University moved to Guizhou, under the leadership of Mr. Zhu Kezhen, who was the president of the university at that time, most of the teachers and students were transferred to Meitan, Zunyi, and the first year and the preparatory class were set up in Qingyan ancient town. Classrooms, libraries, and offices were located in Longquan Temple, students lived in Ciyun Temple, and there were internship sites and staff accommodations in Yuantong Temple and Heishin Temple respectively. This is a blind spot area when Japanese airplanes bombed, which can protect the safety of teachers, students and teaching facilities.