What are the characteristic festivals in Liaoning

Liaoning's characteristics of traditional festivals and customs are all what, a look at the small share it!

1, Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: in rural Liaoning, the lunar month 23, families began to prepare for New Year's Eve, making rice cakes, steamed sticky bean buns, many people will kill the pig to invite neighbors and friends to eat a feast. After eating and drinking well, the enthusiastic hosts will also share the blood sausage with the guests to take home. Children will try to help out at home on these days, but married daughters are not allowed to spend New Year's Eve in their mother's house, otherwise the year will be unfavorable to their brothers. The so-called New Year's Eve "do not look at the lights of the mother's house" is actually this meaning. Of course, this kind of custom with feudal superstition has been slowly forgotten with the progress of society and the change of time. Many people in Liaoning will light longevity lamps on Lunar New Year's Eve, which will stay on all night long. New Year's Eve until the first fifteenth Lantern Festival, every family should hang red lanterns, New Year's Eve to light lanterns, and to point a night, can not turn off the lights, meaning that life extension.

2, Lantern Festival

Time: the first month of the lunar calendar, the fifteenth

Introduction: before and after the fifteenth day of the first month, the traditional folklore of the Manchu people, there are two important programs are "worship drums" and "catching a penny! "

Introduction. Taipinggu in ancient times called La Drum, worship Taipinggu ceremony, originated from the shamanism of the sun god worship. In western Liaoning region, the drum is made of iron wire and is octagonal in shape. Diameter of about 0.7 to 1 meter, with leather paper overlapping paste, decorated with colorful paintings, under the handle through a dozen iron ring, hit the vibration of the clattering sound. Worship Taipinggu parade through the market, is also a street scene during the festival. "Catching a penny" is a game played in a girl's room. "The game is usually played indoors on a kang, with the hoof bones of sheep or pigs dyed in various colors and used by young women to throw, pick up or carry, called "catching". On the 25th day of the first month, "Fill the Barn Day" is also known as "Day Barn Day" in western Liaoning. Manchu family "fill warehouse", there are cooked sticky sorghum rice in the granary custom, but also broomcorn stalks tied to the small horse, small hoe inserted into the rice bowl, said the hard work to seek and the wish for food and clothing.

3, Qingming Festival

Time: around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar

Introduction: Qingming willow folding is the continuation of a thousand years of custom, the folk "Qingming do not wear a willow, the red face into a white head" of the proverb. Liaoning "Yingkou County Records" also has a "door inserted willow" records. In the old days, Liaonan people wake up early at Ching Ming, people folded willow branches into a circle to wear in the children's heads; women are peeled off the skin of the thin willow, woven into a string of small and delicate rings to wear in the hair; some large willow branches, the thin strip of the disk into a circle, inserted in the eaves of the house, doors and windows, as well as the water tank, in order to pray for peace and prosperity. Qingming Festival also has the custom of planting trees, the Republic of China years to repair the "Gai Ping County Records": "since the Republic of China Era, the Qingming Festival for the Tree Planting Day, so that the students of the schools to plant trees, that is, marking the tree for so-and-so planted, but also the tree is also full of trees. Within a few years, the woods are shaded, good trees, this not only soothes the mind of students, to cultivate forestry, planting trees like cultivating good children, this language can be recited." On this day, families in front of the house behind the free land planting trees and flowers, institutions, schools also collective planting, this custom continues to the birth of the new Arbor Day after the founding of the country.

4, Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: Fuxin and Montenegro, Liaoning Province, to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival is a very special way to retain the tradition of "Ketsu Doosi". The "Kegong Dushi" is a traditional stone fighting activity in which two villages throw stones at each other, which was originally a recreational activity within the villages, and then gradually developed into an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival early in the morning, the two villages of twelve or thirteen years old children, standing on the hill to call each other and throw stones at each other; and then after a while to the morning, by the older elders to call the battle, while calling the battle while continuing to throw stones at each other; around 11 o'clock, all parties go home to eat lunch. Waiting for two o'clock in the afternoon, "Kegon Doo Shi" officially began, this time, the planting of the land is not planted, hawkers and vendors are not selling goods, families close the doors and windows, run to the hill to see the fun, everyone is excited. Both sides threw stones at each other, and on this day no one who was injured or maimed by a stone could report it to the authorities, claim compensation, or hold a grudge.

5, winter solstice

Time: December 21 or 22 or 23 every year

Introduction: Liaoning region in the winter solstice on this day there is the custom of sacrificing to the gods and ancestors, and now there are still some places in the winter solstice on the day of the festival to celebrate. At the same time, some places are also sacrificed to the gods of heaven and land, bowing to the gods, in order to pray for the next year's wind and rain, the family and all things happy. Liaoning winter solstice features also "three waiting", that is, the earthworm knot, legend has it that the earthworm is a yin curved yang stretching creatures, at this time the yang has been growing, but the yin gas is still very strong, earthworms in the soil is still huddled in the body; elk horn solution, elk and deer with the same family, but yin and yang are different, the ancients believe that elk's horns towards the back of the birth, so for the yin, and the solstice of a yang, elk sense of the yin gas Gradual retreat and solve the corner; water springs move, due to the first birth of Yang, so this time the mountain springs can flow and warm

6, Dalian fireworks to welcome the spring

Time: the second day of the first month of the Lunar New Year

Place: Dalian Xinghai Square

Introduction: Dalian fireworks to welcome the spring will be held on the second day of the first month of every year in Dalian, Xinghai Square. Xinghai Plaza in Dalian on the second day of the first month. Festival activities are rich and colorful, there are lights and ice sculpture exhibition, fireworks, fireworks show, flavor food tasting, flowers and stones exhibition, fun fun stunts, acrobatics and other musical performances. Visitors can also set off fireworks, other national snack street, a street of handicraft production and tourism and trade and other entertainment activities, doubly welcomed by Chinese and foreign guests and Dalian citizens.

7, Haicheng stilt rice-planting

Time: the first month of the Lunar New Year to February

Location: Haicheng City

Introduction: Haicheng stilt rice-planting belongs to the big drum stilts, is one of the Liaonan stilts, after more than 300 years of continuous evolution, has been formed into the dance, acrobatics, music, drama in one of the folk art. Folk Art. Folk artists in Haicheng have improved the art form and skills of traditional stilts, and put traditional Chinese folk drama on stilts, gradually forming the unique fiery, cheerful, spicy and rough performance style of Haicheng stilts.

8, Chaoyang Phoenix Hill Culture and Arts Festival

Time: the 30th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar

Location: Chaoyang City

Introduction: the festival content is colorful and the form of innovation. There is a grand scale of comprehensive arts and cultural performances, interesting and elegant calligraphy, painting, photography exhibition, intense and wonderful qigong, martial arts and thrilling impurity performance, and the masses of popular opera, Northeast rice-planting song repertoire. Groups of people gathered within the attraction of outreach business marketing and negotiation activities unprecedented, Buddhist activities is the local Buddhist disciples of a major event. The whole festival and temple fair period, phoenix mountain scenic area gathered from all sides of the art celebrities, monks and masters, writers and artists, ordinary people and so on, a collection of Yangchun Baixue and the lower part of a variety of festival art form. With more than 10,000 visitors per day, the scenic spot provides a comfortable environment for visitors to enjoy with its perfect facilities and rich entertainment contents.

9, Huangsi Temple Fair

Time: the annual Spring Festival, May 1, 11 and other holidays during the period

Location: Heping District, Shenyang City, Huangsi Road, No. 206

Introduction: Shenyang Huangsi Temple Fair is one of China's four major temple fairs along with the Beijing Ditan Temple Fair, the Shanghai City God Temple Fair and the Nanjing Fuzi Temple Fair. Imperial Temple Fair in the Spring Festival, "May Day", "11" and other holidays will be held, the temple fair on the sea of people, very lively, the most attention of tourists than a variety of performances and flavors around the food. Every temple fair period, the famous snacks from all over the country will converge here, so that visitors to the temple fair tourists have a great taste. As the main event of the temple fair, stage performances include the popular two-man show, stunts, magic, instrumental music and so on. In addition to stage performances, Manchu-style dance, "the emperor's trip", "Gege wedding", Xibo dance, "sedan chair marriage" and other folk programs will also attract a lot of people's attention. In addition, there are many folk crafts on display at the temple fair, such as sugar painting, blowing candy, pinching candy, carving gourds, egg carving, live painting, crafts on display and so on will also be unveiled.

10, Anshan Thousand Hills International Tourism Festival

Time: April to May every year

Location: Anshan City

Introduction: Thousand Hills is a famous tourist attraction in Liaoning Province, it is not only a unique natural tourist landscape, but also traditionally has been the Liaodong Buddhist, Taoist culture of the concentration of rich historical and cultural landscapes. It is not only blessed with natural tourism landscape, but also has always been the concentration of Buddhism and Taoism culture in Liaodong, and has rich historical and cultural landscape. The Thousand Suns Embroidered Lotus Terrace, the "Thousand Hills Maitreya Buddha" and the Anshan Jade Buddha Garden have all added a lot of color to the rising tourist city of Anshan. Anshan Thousand Hills International Tourism Festival is a local festival integrating tourism, economic and trade negotiations, cultural performances, sports events and leisure shopping, which has won the favor of tourists from home and abroad. Through the organization of this large-scale festival, it fully demonstrated the great achievements of Anshan City since the reform and opening up, the local characteristics of Anshan and the city's personality, and showed the world the image of the show of a thousand mountains, the king of the Jade Buddha, the hometown of hot springs, the city of jade and steel capital. During the festival, hundreds of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists gathered in Anshan, promoting the development of the holiday economy, enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, and advancing the development of tourism-based tertiary industry in Anshan.

11, Yalujiangkou International Wetland Birdwatching Festival

Time: April every year

Place: Dandong Yalujiangkou Wetland

Introduction: Held in April every year in the Yalujiangkou Wetland in Dandong, the aim is to call for the protection and construction of the Yalujiangkou Wetland National Nature Reserve to protect the wetlands and improve the ecology. Contribute to the protection of wetlands and the improvement of ecology. During the Bird Watching Festival in April and May every year, tens of thousands of migratory birds gather in Donggang Yalujiangkou Wetland Bird Watching Park, where you can see the spectacular scene of 120,000 migratory birds flying together. These migratory birds winter in New Zealand and Australia and fly to Siberia to breed. On their way to migrate, they will stop at the mouth of the Yalu River in Donggang to replenish food and recover their strength. During the festival, a large number of domestic and foreign tourists and bird-watching enthusiasts and photographers will come for sightseeing and photography.

12, Longwangtang Reservoir Cherry Blossom Festival

Time: April every year

Location: Longwang River, Guanfang Village, Longwangtang Street, Lushunkou District, Dalian City

Introduction: Every year, in mid- and late-April, cherry blossoms of Longwangtang Reservoir compete for the opening of the festival, which signals the coming of spring in Dalian. Longwangtang Reservoir is situated in the north of Guanfang Village, Longtang Town, Lvshun. The cherry blossoms in Longwangtang are very famous, and it is rare to see such a large area of cherry blossoms so densely planted in the whole country. It is said that one of the cherry trees was once Guo Moruo certified as the country's largest, in addition to the garden there is a rare star-flowering magnolia. The common magnolia in the north has only six white, jade-like ovate petals and is a single flower. This star-flowering magnolia, however, has 18 to 20 pieces of petals, like stretching chrysanthemum filaments, milky white on the front, the back of the center of a mauve fine lines, it is very peculiar.

13, Jinzhou Antique Festival

Time: April every year

Location: Jinzhou Antique City

Introduction: the first China Jinzhou Antique Festival was held in 2006, and will be held annually. The city was built in 2001, and is now the largest professional antiques and collectibles market in Northeast China. During the festival, exhibitors come from Beijing, Fujian, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and a dozen other provinces, as well as Beijing, Tianjin, Zhejiang and other famous antique associations. The exhibits generally include antiques, paintings and calligraphy, furniture, cultural relics of the Cultural Revolution, various handicrafts, jade, fossilized fish, miscellaneous items and other categories. In order to create a festive atmosphere, in addition to the exhibition and sale of antiques, there are also antique art transactions, antique knowledge lectures, economic and trade projects and negotiations, Jinzhou folk culture display and other activities, by antique enthusiasts and the general public welcome.

14, Dandong Hekou Peach Blossom Festival

Time: April to May every year

Location: Dandong Hekou scenic area

Introduction: held in late April to early May every year in the scenic area of Dandong Hekou. Yalu River water ripples, ten thousand acres of peach gardens full of pink, peach blossom festival can not only enjoy the peach forest sea of flowers, but also to experience the Korean style. During the festival, there are also Dandong Tourism Resources Exhibition, Peach Blossom Photography Exhibition and Photography Competition and other activities.

15, Benxi Yanjing Mountain Flower Festival

Time: April every year

Location: Benxi Manchu Autonomous County

Introduction: Benxi Manchu Autonomous County in late April to mid-May every year, will be held in the "into the townships of Manchu to enjoy the mountain flower "The festival is held from late April to mid-May to promote spring tourism routes and hold a series of cultural performances in Tianlong Cave.

16, Dalian acacia will

Time: May every year

Location: Dalian

Introduction: 1992, the National Tourism Administration formally determined that the "Dalian acacia will be" as a national local tourism festivals, Dalian, is a city surrounded by acacia flowers. Dalian is a city surrounded by acacia flowers, known as the "Oriental acacia city" reputation. Every year in late May, spring and summer turn of the acacia blossoms, verdant pieces, white flowers, fragrant, the whole Dalian picturesque. Using this natural resource advantage, the Dalian Municipal Government began to organize in 1989, and gradually run it into a collection of tourism, culture and sports in one of the grand tourism festivals. The outstanding features of the Samuel Society, first, strong internationality, participating countries, regions, such as Japan, South Korea, Russia and the Philippines have come to see the tourists; second is the strong participation of the masses, motorcycle parade is a show, folk art show activities also attract many citizens, tourists to participate in the third is the cultural content is high, the square cultural activities, Samuel Society Culture and Art Week, the Oriental Samuel City music and song and dance and other cultural and artistic activities, as well as The calligraphy and painting artwork exhibition and pottery exhibition have all increased the cultural content of the festival.

17, Dalian International Marathon

Time: May every year

Location: Dalian

Introduction: track and field and soccer, the same as the people of Dalian favorite sports activities, Dalian is China's famous "hometown of track and field". Dalian is the famous "home of track and field" in China, and many world champions were born here. Dalian International Marathon has attracted more and more foreign marathoners to participate in, and has become a representative project of Dalian sports tourism. 1997, recognized by the IAAF, Dalian International Marathon has officially become an international race.

18, Dalian International Beach Culture Festival

Time: June to August every year

Location: Dalian

Introduction: Dalian International Beach Culture Festival, organized by the Dalian Municipal People's Government, has been held once a year since 2004, and it is the most representative of Dalian summer. "3S" characteristics (i.e. sunshine, sea, beach), unique seaside cultural characteristics of international tourism festivals, Dalian International Beach Culture Festival fully explores the beautiful coastal city of Dalian's rich coastal tourism resources, a comprehensive display of Dalian as the "romantic capital". The festival will be held in Dalian, which is a beautiful coastal city.

19, North Putuo Mountain Mulberry Festival

Time: June every year

Location: North Putuo Mountain

Introduction: North Putuo Mountain to use the special resources of the successful organization of the North Putuo Mountain characteristics of the folk culture activities - North Putuo Mountain Mulberry Festival, to show the tourist Image and products, for the establishment of regional tourism economic cooperation network, further tourism exchanges and cooperation, to realize the resources *** enjoy, complement each other's advantages, build Jinzhou tourism brand, promote *** with the prosperity and development play a positive role in promoting.

20, Panjin International Wetland Tourism Festival

Time: July to September every year

Location: Panjin City

Introduction: China Panjin International Wetland Tourism Festival is organized by the Liaoning Provincial Tourism Bureau, Panjin Municipal People's Government, Panjin Municipal Tourism Bureau, the international tourism festivals and celebrations, held in Panjin City in July and September every year. September in Panjin City. Over the years, "Wetland Tourism Festival" through the development of colorful activities, to domestic and foreign tourists to show the "Northern Wetland Capital" green reeds and red beaches of the charm of the people.

21, Shenyang Korea Week

Time: July every year

Location: Shenyang City

Introduction: China Shenyang Korea Week is held in July every year, there will be a variety of colorful activities to promote the friendly exchanges between Shenyang and South Korea at multiple levels. In addition to arts and cultural activities, will also be held at the same time the China-Korea Travelers Conference.

22, Dalian International Art Fair

Time: August every year

Location: Dalian

Introduction: Dalian International Art Fair is an international art exhibition organized by the China Art Association, one of China's four major art fairs, held annually in August in Dalian. The prominent feature of the fair is the simultaneous appearance of four main activities, namely, the main exhibition of the International Art Fair, the International Annual Exhibition of Chinese Paintings, the Annual Meeting of the International Chinese Painting Elite, and the Fine Art Auction of the Fair. At that time, tens of thousands of art masterpieces together into the coastal city, providing people with a good opportunity to appreciate, collect and cultivate sentiment.

23, Dalian Beer Festival

Time: August every year

Location: Dalian Xinghai Square

Introduction: by the China Light Industry Federation and the Dalian Municipal People's Government *** with the organization of China's International Beer Festival is held every summer in August at the Xinghai Square. Dalian's Oktoberfest field to take the road of the masses, tickets for the day for 5 yuan, 10 yuan at night, and there are three days of free. The beer festival includes beer vendors stage display, beer disco square, beer culture exhibition, beer drinking contest, photography contest and other major activities, beer industry summit, beer knowledge contest and other activities.

24, Benxi Prince River Water Festival

Time: Every summer

Location: Benxi City

Introduction: Benxi Prince River urban section of more than 20 kilometers in length, the construction of the five barrage, the formation of the "upper look at the gurgling of the water, the lower look at waterfalls Road Road "The unique landscape. When summer comes, the public have to Taizi River to splash in the water, cool off. In addition, Daya River rafting, Sandao River Reservoir, Guanyinge Reservoir, Huanlong Lake, Benxi Lake Park, Wangxi Park's artificial lakes, swan lake sites for visitors to provide a good water-friendly environment.

25, Shenyang International Tourism Festival

Time: every fall

Location: Shenyang City

Introduction: Shenyang International Tourism Festival is held annually in the fall in Shenyang, which lasts for more than a month, the "11th" Golden Week also included in the Among them, Shenyang International Tourism Festival is now a national tourism festival. During the festival there will be a variety of colorful festivals, such as the opening ceremony, float parade, Northeast ethnic folk traditional dance performances, modern creative performances, etc., as well as representative of China's other provinces and cities of ethnic dance performances, foreign art groups, such as the wonderful content. Shenyang International Tourism Festival is also the exchange and joy of the event, during this period, the international famous tourist attractions and commodities exhibition, Shenyang Wu Ai Tourism and Shopping Festival, Shenyang International Food Festival, the reward shopping joy tour, beer festival, Tourism Consulting Day, picking festival, the Imperial ancestral temple photography contest activities are also held together.

26, Jinzhou International Folk Culture Festival

Time: every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day

Location: Jinzhou City

Introduction: Jinzhou International Folk Culture Festival has the characteristics of openness and cultural exchanges, showing the harmony of Jinzhou, Binhai new Jinzhou times. Festival of culture and art activities during the festival is brilliant, you can enjoy the different forms of rap, dance performances, the Medical Wulvushan Manchu paper-cutting, Montenegro duo, Liaosi stilts, Medical Wulvushan folklore, Chen Pai commentary, Daoguang twenty-five white wine traditional brewing techniques, and so on, the foreign nationalities of the flavor of the program more exotic style. The festival not only has wonderful cultural and artistic activities, there are international economic and trade fairs, scientific and technological cooperation and patent trade fairs and other commercial activities.

27, Dandong Yalu River International Tourism Festival

Time: September every year

Place: Dandong City

Introduction: held in September every year in the Yalu River Pearl Park. Dandong Yalu River International Tourism Festival to tourism, cultural and sports activities as a carrier, during the festival, the main tourism trade fairs, economic and trade fairs, high-tech product exhibitions, large-scale cultural evenings, thousands of people swim in the Yalu River and kayak, rowing and other water sports and Dandong border and travel to North Korea and other sightseeing projects. Dandong City is China's largest border city, it is along the border, coastal, along the river, with the advantages of natural and human tourism resources. At the same time, Dandong City has a suitable climate, no severe cold in winter, no summer heat, the city streets on both sides of the ginkgo shade, azalea full of the city, is a good place for tourism and vacation. By organizing such a large-scale international tourism festival, show "the new century, the new Dandong" style, has begun to bear fruit.

28, Shenyang Qing Culture International Tourism Festival

Time: September to October every year

Location: Shenyang City

Introduction: Shenyang Qing Culture International Tourism Festival is the main Qing Culture Tourism Week Shenyang Folk Customs Tourism Festival, started in 1998, is now a set of economic and trade, Tourism, culture and academic exchanges as one of the event. Shenyang as the birthplace of the Qing dynasty, Qing Shenyang Imperial Palace, Qing Zhaoling (North Mausoleum), Qing Fuling (East Mausoleum) and Qing culture street are unique tourism resources, rich folk culture flavor. Tourism Festival, will be held around the Qing culture of a variety of activities, such as the Royal ceremonial parade, the Emperor on tour, Manchu court dance, shaman mid-autumn festival dance, Shengjing cultural temple fair and so on, the cultural atmosphere is very strong. Shengjing, the scenery, the situation, the feelings, attracting many tourists to come to sightseeing.

29, Dalian International Clothing Festival

Time: September every year

Location: Dalian City

Introduction: Dalian International Clothing Festival since 1989, held annually in mid-September, is the earliest emerging tourism festivals held in Liaoning. Dalian International Fashion Festival is an international economic and cultural event integrating economy and trade, culture and tourism. During the festival, tens of thousands of tourists and merchants from home and abroad come to negotiate deals; thousands of clothing models come to Dalian for fashion shows; many domestic and foreign clothing designers come to launch their latest designs. Dalian International Service Festival opening ceremony and the square of the cultural evening of the grand scale, beautifully organized and designed, by Chinese and foreign guests and the general public's welcome and love, the success of the festival, greatly enhancing the visibility of Dalian City.

30, Benxi Maple Leaf Festival

Time: September to October every year

Location: Benxi City

Introduction: Maple Leaf Festival demonstrates the tourism image of Benxi City, and it has become a red-hot business card of Benxi, and it has become a window and a bridge for Benxi to go towards the whole country and even to the world. Benxi Maple Leaf is a seasonal landscape unique to the mountainous areas of Benxi. The area around the Guanmen Mountain in Benxi has beautiful trees, flowers, water and clouds. When the maple leaves are red in September, the mountains are red with maple leaves, the water and the sky. Compared with the famous red leaves of Xiangshan Mountain in Beijing, the scale is bigger and the number is more, which is a rare seasonal landscape of plants in Northeast China. The annual Benxi Maple Leaf Festival, from all directions to rushed to Benxi to view the ten thousand mountains red tourists.

31, Dandong Tianqiaogou Maple Leaf Festival

Time: September to October every year

Location: Dandong City

Introduction: Held every year in the fall from the end of September to mid-October, it is the local influential tourism festival. Every year before and after the "11th", Tianqiaogou is full of red mountains and forests, and is known as "the place with the reddest and most colorful maple leaves in China".

32, Qingshanggou Manchu flavor month

Time: September every year

Location: Qingshanggou scenic spot

Introduction: held in Qingshanggou scenic spot in September every year, during the festival you can enjoy the Manchu songs and dances, Manchu rituals, Manchu Dragon Dance and other performances, but also can visit the Chinese Manchu style garden, more The festival will be held at the Qingshangou Scenic Area.

33, Shenyang Ice and Snow Tourism Festival

Time: December to February

Location: Shenyang City

Introduction: Shenyang Ice and Snow Tourism Festival from 1997, held annually from December to February, every year, the Ice and Snow Festival Carnival night is a sea of enthusiasm. Ice and Snow Tourism Festival activities not only allow people to enjoy the "thousands of miles of ice, ten thousand miles of snow" of the northern scenery, but also snow and culture, snow and folklore, snow and fitness combination, highlighting the participatory nature of snow sports and the ornamental nature of snow and ice art, to carry out skiing, ice skating competitions, ice recreation, winter swimming competitions, and other different rides. Project. At the same time, Guipanshan Ice World, Beiling Park, South Lake Park and Wulihe Park also organized a large snow sculpture garden party, lanterns and other activities. There will also be a young people's masquerade ball and performances by the community's rice-planting teams during the parade.

34, Dalian Winter Tourism and Shopping Festival

Time: December every year

Location: Dalian

Introduction: shopping festival held every December in Dalian, in order to prosper the winter business in Dalian, to stimulate new business opportunities, led by the Dalian Municipal Government, dozens of shopping malls and hotels in Dalian, the United States and China. The festival is held every December in Dalian, and is led by the Dalian municipal government. In addition to the large discounts of various merchants, there are also colorful cultural performances. "Winter shopping to Dalian" for the silver Dalian add a few minutes of spring, but also for the economic development of Dalian has injected new vitality.

35, ice valley ditch lanterns

Time: every winter

Location: Dalian

Introduction: ice valley ditch ice lanterns will be the ice valley scenic area is unique to the natural ice as the medium for the implementation of the Dalian Tourism Activity, was held in 1995 for the first time. Bingyu long winter, in winter, more than a dozen ice waterfalls hanging in the craggy cliffs, gestures. Fish under the ice, cedar reflection of the sun, known as the Ice Valley wonders. Many ice carvings, ice lanterns, snow carvings, with the beautiful mountains and rivers as the background, icebergs, ice forests, ice waterfalls, the scenery is beautiful and charming. Also introduced, including ice skating, ice hockey, winter swimming, ice sailing, ice car, gyro, high platform skating, as well as a rich folk color of the dog, sheep sledding and other folk projects, including entertainment programs, attracting a large number of tourists at home and abroad.

36, Dalian International Winter Swimming Festival

Time: Every winter

Location: Dalian

Introduction: Winter Swimming Festival by the Dalian Municipal People's Government, the State General Administration of Sports of China Tourism Administration Center hosted, *** set up 34 prizes in Dalian Jinshitan National Resort. Mainly to the general public that can be carried out on the sea entertainment projects for the competition, but also will be held on the waterfront colorful car parade, the sea opening ceremony and square party and other artistic activities, attracted a number of domestic and foreign cities of winter swimming enthusiasts, the number of participants can reach more than 10,000 people.

37, Benxi Ice and Snow Festival

Time: Every winter

Location: Benxi City

Introduction: Benxi's winter is longer, up to five months, to organize all kinds of ice and snow activities to create good natural conditions. Benxi City organizes the Ice and Snow Festival every year at the Benxi Dongfeng Lake Ice and Snow World, with exhibitions of ice carvings, snow carvings, ice lanterns, and all kinds of ice entertainment programs.