After the Lantern Festival, the lively Spring Festival also comes to an end in most parts of the country. However, in the mountainous towns of Fenggang, Qiaoshui and Gansha in the eastern part of Huaji, the Spring Festival will not really come to an end until the 20th day of the first lunar month, when the lanterns are dropped. On the twentieth day of the first month, the owner of the chandelier and the second day of the lanterns on the same, with boiled whole chicken, pork, vegetables, joss sticks and firecrackers, joyfully came to the ancestral hall to pay tribute to the ancestors. At this time, the ancestral hall of bright candlelight, smoke winding, the sound of firecrackers rise and fall, deafening. When a family is happy, all the neighbors celebrate together, and the neighbors also take chickens and meat to pay tribute to their ancestors, and the sound of firecrackers continues, bringing the New Year to a climax.
June 6 Song Wei
Once upon a time, the town of Qiaotou, Huaiji had the custom of catching the temple fair. Once the sixth lunar month, villages and cottages of people have come to the rock West Liqin, some in the river bank scaffolding singing opera, some in the riverside selling, some in the rock cliffs to catch bird's nest, some in the stalagmites next to the song ...... The present-day Yan Yan June 6 Song Wei probably originated here.
Long Mother's Birthday
Yuecheng Long Mother's Birthday, time: the eighth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year
Deqing Yuecheng Long Mother Ancestral Temple (formerly known as the Xiaotong Temple) was built in honor of the mother of the dragon, the legend says that in the Zhou and Qin dynasties, in the Yuecheng river lived a clever and virtuous girl, she could plow and weave well, she could fishery and herdsmen, and she could foretell the misfortunes and cure all kinds of diseases. She raised five dragon sons. She was honored as the Dragon Mother by the local people. The local people are honored as the mother of the dragon. Every year on the eighth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar for the Dragon Mother's birthday, the birth of the period from the first day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar to the end of the ninth day of the fifth month, the atmosphere is warm. At the beginning of the festival, boats from Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia will come to the temple in droves and compete to berth there. For several days in a row, the Dragon Mother Temple smoke, firecrackers sound, incense and prayers up to hundreds of thousands of people.
Star Lake Golden Autumn Festival
"Star Lake Golden Autumn" Festival is a large-scale cultural activities once every two years in Zhaoqing. The festival combines traditional folk art and modern art, stage art and square art, dynamic art and static art, professional art and mass art, local art and foreign art, performing art and amusement art, so as to form a multi-projects, high grade, new methods of performance, the masses of people enjoy a comprehensive cultural activities to meet the needs of the masses of cultural life. The festival promotes national folk culture in various art forms, reflects the spirit of the times of reform and opening up, and integrates entertainment, knowledge and ideology.
The performance programs of the festival mainly include: professional and amateur cultural performances and lions, martial arts, acrobatics; social dance, fashion show; singing, dancing and fitness performances; lanterns, lantern exhibition, lantern riddles; children's calligraphy and painting contest.
Sihui Citrus Festival
Sihui Citrus Festival, time: every year in the autumn
Sihui City is famous as the hometown of oranges, has a long history of citrus cultivation. According to historical records, more than 400 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, Sihui began to cultivate tangerines on a large scale, and Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica called Sihui "Frozen Tangerine". Due to the unique natural geography, climate, soil products and rich cultivation experience of citrus farmers, Sihui oranges are famous at home and abroad for their thin-skinned, sweet and refreshing flavor and freshness without dregs. Since the Ming Dynasty, Sihui has been sending the best mandarin oranges to the court every year, so it is called "Gongkan". At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the villages along Suijiang River planted mandarin oranges on a large scale. Today, citrus planting has become a major industry in Sihui, with more than 30 varieties of citrus, Sihui has become a real citrus kingdom, and a large-scale citrus market has been formed on both sides of the highway of Guanghai North Line and Silien Line. Every year in the autumn, Sihui City will hold an annual citrus festival, citrus as a medium, held a large-scale business negotiations and cultural and artistic performances, attracting guests from all directions, come to taste citrus, negotiate business.
Swallow Festival
Huaiji Yan Yan Yan Swallow Festival, time: the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year
Huaji County is 185 kilometers away from the city of Zhaoqing. Qiaotou Town is located in the southwest of Huaji County, about 40 kilometers away from the county town. The area around Qiaotou is a karst landscape, surrounded by rock caves, streams, and idyllic scenery. One kilometer from the town of Qiaotou, there is a huge cave name "Yan Yan". Yanyan is the cave where the swallows live. Yan Yan cave is about 66 meters high, about 40 meters wide to 9 meters, the hole facing southeast, there is a small river from the south to the north, trips through the hole. Flowing through the cave river length of about 660 meters, the cave stalagmites, stone mantle, stone milk, a thousand forms. Every year, the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar is the temple fair day of Qiaotou Town, and it is a great day for the rock festival.
Bathing Buddha Festival
One of the four famous Lingnan Dinghu Mountain Qingyun Temple, its bathing Buddha Festival is scheduled for the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, and China's Han Chinese Buddhist bathing Buddha Festival time is the same. Early in the morning on that day, Buddhists in the halls burning incense and color, and then gathered in the Maharajah's Treasure Hall to hold the chanting of sutras (also known as irrigation of the Buddha will be). At the beginning of the ceremony, the Buddhists recite the sutra, and then the master brings out the incarnation of Shakyamuni - a small jade Buddha, and then the abbot, according to the story of the birth of Shakyamuni, there are two dragons spitting out warm water and cool water respectively, imitating the dragon spitting out water for the small jade Buddha to bathe, and using a variety of famous incense infused with perfume in advance for the small jade Buddha dunking. After the ceremony, the Buddhists use the remaining perfume to water various flowers. A day or two before the Bathing Buddha Festival, people from all over the world come to visit the Buddha on this auspicious day in April to pray for the Buddha's blessing and good fortune.
Specialties of Zhaoqing
The Golden Swallow's Nest in Yanyan
Two Treasures of Huaiji: Golden Swallow and Golden Nest
The Three Wonders and Eight Treasures of Zhaoqing and Zhaoqing Specialties
Shaipu: the largest distribution center of Zhaozhi in Guangdong
Duanxi Shimei chong ziyun
Celebrities and Sihui tangerines
Bamboo carving enters Zhaoqing's craft market
Xingyan egg flower Zhaoqing straw mats
Sihui citrus scent spreads to all corners of the world
Specialty trade association ceremony held in Dinghu
Duan inkstone, the world's most prized treasure, and the tiny production of Wen and Mai carp in Zhaoqing
Fenkai apricot-flowering chickens in a streamside bamboo grove
p> Famous Tea: Dinghu Mountain Tea Cake
Bird's Nest and Bird's Nest Wine
Citrus fruit: Deqing Gongcang
Zhaoqing Lotus Roots and Lotus Roots with Sugar
Specialty of Mt. Dinghu: Purple-backed Anemone
Specialty product: He Shouwu
One of the Four Great Southern Medicines: Deqing Baji
Rare Nourishing Goods: Zhaozhi. The first of the four famous inkstones - Duan inkstone
Traditional food: Zhaoqing steamed
Zhaoqing Qixingyan unique honey
Qixing sword flower and Qixing egg flower