Customary activities on the 16th day of the first month of the lunar calendar: running for 10,000 diseases, dancing with the flag flower, going to the temple, walking on the 100 spirits, climbing the city.
1, run a million sick
Central region has a "first month 16 run a million sick" legends and traditional customary, the way most of them and walk a hundred similar, just call it different. In other words, on the sixteenth day of the first month, after breakfast, basically every family has a hand lock on the front door, the whole family sent out to all around to "run a million diseases".
According to everyone: after the first month of the sixteen this tour, will make "all the disease" in the warm and enjoyable short route vacation tourism in the whole process, all the "legacy" on the road, "legacy" in the wilderness, prompting "all the disease", "all the disease" in the wilderness. "in the field, prompting the" disease "all eliminate; no disease no disaster will be better, more healthy physically and mentally; get sick with a disaster just "left" off, in trouble, turn the tide!
2, dance flag flower
Dance flag flower preparations must be carried out a few days in advance, to the cemetery forest slopes to pick up sweeping cypress, looking for waste pots and pans pounded with a mortar, choose the base of the street planing tundra, repair the ground mortar. In addition to the hard work of doing these things, you have to prepare wheat straw, sawdust, flag poles, sheep tethering wire and chiseled eyes of the scrap metal barrels.
3, the temple
Penglai local old tradition, the sixteenth lunar calendar for the god of the sea Poseidon days after the birth of the local people as a traditional festival to celebrate. Everyone from all directions to the Penglai Pavilion Tianhou Palace, incense worship, sign prayers, donations of incense money, incense and candles are very prosperous.
Local people competing institutions theater troupe, rice-planting team to the Queen Mother of Heavenly Palace directly across from the ancient theater building, the city square to the Queen's opera, dedication to slang theater performances and rice-planting songs.
4, go Bai Ling
In the southwest of Shandong is very popular. The flavor of the year is already far away, and the early spring is coming. Crops are in the agricultural season is idle situation, the nest hold a winter of women is the world to step in the spring, healthy sports fitness. "Get rid of the lintel, inner hand spirit", in the Jining area, earlier they went to Confucius Temple, Meng Temple, Zeng Temple to incense and pray, mothers blessed their children to become a dragon into a phoenix, smart and capable.
5, climb the city head
It is to the Ming Dynasty prevailed in the Nanjing region distinctive folk activities, the fashionable "climb the city head, step peace, go away from the disease" called. Around the 1960s, because of the destruction of the old city wall, this folk culture is in decline.
Nowadays, along with the Taicheng, Stone City, Zhonghua Gate, Zhongshan Gate, Hanzhong Gate and other sections of the ancient city walls have been restored and opened to the public, this theme has been continued. Today can be seen, walk up the ancient city wall is mainly some 70 to 80 years old, many people struggling to help the wall after climbing, only to walk on top of it down.