A lot of places have carried out Spring Festival activities when the Spring Festival is approaching, and today we introduce the Spring Festival activities in Lin'an, Zhejiang Province, where Shangtian Village is the main venue of the event. As early as before New Year's Day, the New Year's Customs and Tourism Festival has been carried out, and the activities will continue until after the Spring Festival in the future.
Eighth Lin'an New Year's Customs and Tourism Festival
Opening date: Dec. 26, 2018
Location: at Shangtian Village, Banqiao, Lin'an
Lin'an New Year
Since Lin'an became the Since Lin'an became the "10th district of Hangzhou" a year ago, the regional economy, cities and villages have undergone remarkable changes, and with the construction of the "whole region scenic area", the tourism industry and other industries have been further fully integrated.
This year's Eighth Lin'an New Year's Customs and Tourism Festival, the local government integrated the excavation of "sticking spring couplets, sending New Year's gifts, sacrificing to the Zaoshen, dancing dragon lanterns, playing rice cakes, making mochi" and other New Year's customs and cultural activities with the rich characteristics of mountainous areas of northwestern Zhejiang and the organization of the exhibition and sale of local agricultural and special products.
Mobilizing the local handy village sister-in-laws and nuns to prepare countryside specialties, launched the "Ten New Year's Eve Activities", "100 tables of countryside New Year's Eve dinner", a thousand feasts and other activities!
Lin'an Top Ten New Year's Products
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Shangtian Village:
Shangtian Village, Banqiao Town
New Year's Goods Sale: Collect traditional specialties of Banqiao and set up display booths to sell them.
New Year's Customs Experience: Including the experience of making rice cakes, mochi, making frozen rice candies, and writing Spring Festival couplets
New Year's Flavors Tasting: Roasted whole goat, called chicken, roasted sweet potatoes, and roasted New Year's cake.
Highlights of the event promotion: December 26, 2018
Event duration: late December 2018-February 2019
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Moon Bridge Village: Tianmu Moon Township Celebrates the Great New Year (Moon Lantern Festival)
Tianmushan Township Moon Bridge Village
Activities:
Opening of the January 10th Moon Township "Village Night"
Programs: Moon Bridge horse lanterns, lotus flower drop, sketches, comedy, powerful gongs and drums, singing and dancing performances, etc.; shopping moon lanterns; shopping temples, shopping for New Year's Eve; New Year's custom experience. "Making New Year's Cake, Brewing Rice Wine, Making Mochi, Killing New Year's Pig, and Tasting the Moon Feast"; Xiao Ya'er Over Lahai
Time: January 10 - February 20, 2019
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Yangxi Village: Yangxi Yangxi Nian (Year of Yangxi Young Happiness)
[Yangxi Village, Qingliangfeng Township]
During the New Year's activities, every visitor to Yangxi Village is required to change into a Chinese dress, which not only enhances the sense of scene taking, but also shows the charm of traditional Chinese culture in the process of experiencing the activities. The welcoming service staff dressed in costumes from the stage play "The Herb King Goes on a Journey" joined the gongs and drums to welcome visitors, adding to the atmosphere of the New Year.
After entering the village, visitors can make couplets in the small square, participate in rituals at the "filial piety shrine" and experience the folk customs of Yangxi. You can also go to the earthen stove to taste the three tea, filial piety feast, eat Ding Sheng cake, drink Ding Sheng wine, knitting straw shoes, of course, there is the New Year's pig feast. After you have had enough to eat and drink, a visual feast will be staged, "Herb King's Exodus", "Herb King's Exodus" is based on the legend of Han Shizhong, the famous general of the anti-Jin Dynasty, and the dance performance is the scene of Han Shizhong, Liang Hongyu and their couple practicing in the sands before going to war, which is the large-scale stage theater performance with the collective cooperation of the people of Yangxi through the ages, and it is the large-scale performance combining the humanities and the history. You are guaranteed to be entertained.
Time: January 2019 (every weekend)
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Shenlongchuan
Shenlongchuan
Spooky Shake
Good Luck
[Shenlongchuan Scenic Spot (Regular), Guidance Mountain Villages Scenic Spot (Reserve in Advance)]
Activity Shenlongchuan Shenlongchuan "strange shake a shake" will be the modern elements of jitterbug combined with traditional folk activities, so that the traditional "playing rice cakes" with the music dance more energetic. "Good Luck Basket" is a gift of hospitality prepared by Lin'an rural people for guests who come to play. A basket of local specialties of origin, fresh and tasty, make this trip more like going home, bringing home the simplicity of relatives and blessings together. The souvenirs in the heartfelt accompaniment are an extension of the delicacies along the Taihu Lake source.
Time: December 31-January 31
05Longmen Mystery Village Scenic Area:
Longmen Mystery New Year's Eve Bazaar (Year of Yearning)
[Longmen Mystery Village Scenic Area, Longshan Village Block]
Time: December 31-January 31
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Sagami Village: Sagami Sealing Ceremony
[Sagami Village, Lin'an]
Activities
Playing mochi and making sweet wine brewing New Year's Eve activities are held every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Visitors can participate in the experience free of charge.On Jan. 13, 2019 (Lahai Festival), the village's New Wine Sealing Ceremony will be held, where villagers will take out their own year's freshly-brewed rice wine, and, under the auspices of village elders, write in pen and ink, and then write the new wine with a brush, ink and paper. Under the auspices of village elders, they write down their good wishes for the coming year with pen and ink and seal them on the bottle caps.
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Shuangmiao Muren: West Zhejiang Style Campfire Festival
[Sun Town Shuangmiao Village Muren Camping - Sun Valley - Glean Wood]
Activities
The campfire festival covers the homemade wine dumplings, golden rice dumplings (grey water rice dumplings), hometown feasts, such as the local specialties of Lin'an, and guests can participate in making their own. Guests can personally participate in the production, from the source to experience the food. At the highlight of the festival: the bonfire party, guests will mingle quickly through ice-breaking games, and then follow the teacher to learn the enthusiastic Bamboo Dance or the She Lotus Lantern Dance, which is full of ethnic minority flavors, music and dance steps that will be even more charming in the light of the fire. After the bonfire dance, everyone can bake bread by the bonfire, enjoy a hi-fi party in the valley and watch an open-air movie under the starlight.
Time: Every Saturday night from January 26 to March 2, 2019
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River Bridge (Xinggong Yanlou)
Activities:
At the sound of a gong, the 30-member bride-welcoming team sets off. Two people carrying a "gong" on their shoulders to open the way, the golden girl holding two lanterns printed with the words "Palace" and "Yanlou". Matchmaker with flowers in hand, followed by the "___" welcoming plaque held high. The most beautiful of course is the sedan chair, carried by four people. Behind the sedan chair, there are those who carry green bags, those who carry red and green peanuts, those who are ready to carry the dowry, as well as the waist-drum dance team and the gongs and drums team departing for the bride's home.
Activity time: 13:30-15:00 from the first to the sixth day of the Lunar New Year (suspended on rainy and snowy days)
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Minwu Village
Taochuotou dips into the joyous air
Minwu Joyful Year
Activity
Meet at the Tianmu Welcoming Village-Minwu Village. There are pleasant mountain songs, delicious village feasts, and a joyful village year. Playing New Year's cake, drawing New Year's paintings, let the children experience the flavor of the year once; wearing Chinese dress, taking pictures, leaving you the most beautiful memories of the countryside; walking through the streets and drinking wine, eating and drinking is not enough, the villagers presented the characteristics of the countryside accompanied by gifts to make you return home full of.
Activity time:
January 20, 2019 to February 19, 2019
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Baiyuan Village
Activities:
There are many characteristic gardens in Baiyuan Village, and the vernacular research group led by instructor Huang Sunquan of China Academy of Fine Arts will be on display at the garden tour, and you You can visit them one by one;
There are many craftsmen living in Baiyuan Village, such as Mr. Zhao who makes sugar, Mr. Jiang who makes rattan weaving, and Auntie Luo who makes soymilk, who show their unique handcrafts and prepare a lot of Lin'an's traditional snacks at the same time.
The village market will be open at the festival, inviting people from all walks of life to come and celebrate the New Year; and the New Year's Eve theater team from the village is also ready with surprises for everyone.
Come to Baiyuan Village to experience the New Year's festivals integrating art, culture and folklore, and celebrate the New Year together!
Event Time: January 15 - January 20, 2019