Xuzhou on the first day of the first month of the 15th Pan'an Lake Street, Mazhuang Village has a lantern festival.
Mazhuang Village's 36th non-legacy Lantern Festival, February 3 grand opening. The event carries the rich history and culture of Mazhuang Village for more than 30 years. As a national intangible cultural heritage, it records the changes in the ancient traditional Chinese folk culture of Mazhuang from generation to generation and year to year. The Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Show offers wonderful programs such as the Mighty Drums and Drums, Ansai Waist Drums, Donkey Running, and Sedan Chair Carrying, etc., which combines traditional arts and culture with intangible cultural heritage, and brings you to the Lantern Festival with joy and happiness.
Happy New Year, haunted the Lantern Festival, the show site program colorful, large square dance, comedy, sketches, three lines, dance, solo, all kinds of programs staged in turn, to provide you with a wonderful cultural feast, do not miss.
Activities
1, non-heritage lanterns
Mazhuang's lanterns are realistic and cute, and have rich and beautiful meanings. Dragon lanterns should be placed in the grain hoard, until February 2, "dragon head-raising" day, the dragon lanterns should be cooked and eaten with noodles, expressing people's desire to pray for rain and wind, the other lamps should be placed inside and outside the house, livestock barn, animal pens, the river, water wells, mill platforms, grindstone, etc., which is meant to prevent the "five poisons", "five poisons", "five poisons", "five poison", "five poison", "five poison", "five poison", "five poison" and "five poison". It is meant to prevent "five poisons", "get rid of all diseases" and "keep peace". Children with a lighted oil lamp irradiation of the five senses, the so-called "shine eyes, not harmful to the eyes", looking forward to bring good luck, get rid of all diseases.
2, traditional lanterns
Lanterns, as the highlight of the Lantern Festival, have been essential since ancient times. Activity site, the Chinese zodiac lamp, horse lanterns, flower lamps, bird lamps, a wide range of different shapes of the local traditional hand-typed lanterns focused on the appearance of hundreds of lanterns are made by the people of the village of Ma Zhuang. Mazhuang Culture and Tourism integrates the culture of traditional scented bags with the art of nature, and the mysterious styles are waiting for you to unlock in person.
3. Eat, play and shop
The aim is to create a colorful and bright carnival feast for villagers and tourists from all over the world, to inherit the classics and create a feast! Let everyone eat delicious snacks at the same time, but also can shop, really appreciate the food, drink, play, fun, shopping.
Reference for the above: Local treasure-play guide