One, Tongliang - China Dragon Lantern Festival
The Dragon Lantern Festival in the People's Park, Anju Ancient City and Longcheng Tianjie shopping district and other places. Among them, Tongliang People's Park has more than 60 lanterns on display, which is the most magnificent chapter of this Dragon Lantern Art Festival. In addition, the park plaza also has a large-scale light sets, the artificial lake on the big creeping dragon is more domineering.
Address: People's Park, Anju Ancient City, Longcheng Tianjie shopping district and other places
Time: January 22nd - March 8th
Driving route: the main city - Shuangbei Tunnel - Chengdu-Chongqing Loop Expressway - Tongliang Interchange -Tongnan-Shuangjiang Lunar New Year Cultural Festival
Shuangjiang Ancient Town was once one of China's first ten famous historical and cultural towns, with courtyards and gardens featuring the Qing Dynasty.
The festival is held every year and this year it lasted for nearly a month. In addition to good-looking singing and dancing performances, you can also experience the non-legacy culture of the ancient town and enjoy programs such as the traditional Han-style wedding show, which is unique to the town.
Address: Shuangjiang Town, Tongnan
Time: Jan. 22-Feb. 19
Driving route: main city-Yusui highway-Tongnan off-road-Shuangjiang Ancient Town, Shuangjiang Town < /p>
Three, Nanchuan - Tianxing Town Blessing Lantern Festival
Today's Tianxing Town has long been covered by a lively atmosphere, with lights, songs and dances everywhere. Red lanterns and colorful lanterns, reflecting and shining. In addition, Tianxing Town can also buy New Year's goods, watch traditional opera and face-changing, exuding a strong New Year's flavor everywhere. Of course, you can't miss the hot springs here.
Address: at the foot of the west slope of Jinfo Mountain in Nanchuan
Time: Dec. 28th, 2012 - Feb. 28th, 2012
Driving route: Main city - Chongqing-Xiangzhou Expressway - Nanwan Expressway - Jinfo Mountain West (get off) Jinfoshan West Gate
Four, Jiangjin - Zhongshan Ancient Town Thousand-meter Banquet
One pair of chopsticks and one bowl, free to taste hundreds of tables of banquets, watch kung fu shows, walk through the "Qingming Riverside" style of life in Zhongshan, and try a Song Dynasty style of catching up with the market
This is the first time for the festival to be held in Zhongshan. The Long Street Banquet is a traditional event for the residents of Zhongshan Ancient Town to celebrate the New Year. On the day of the feast, families move their tables to the stone streets outside their doors and put on bowls of well-cooked specialty farm dishes.
This year's "Thousand-Meter Banquet" is very different, not only blessing rituals, folk worship, "playing pots" stunt performance, but also a pair of chopsticks to eat all over the street. At the same time, also added to the singing, dancing, storytelling way of serving scenarios to interpret the love theme of cultural dining, show selenium-rich love feast of cultural connotations.
Address: Jiangjin Zhongshan Town
Time: January 26, 2012
Driving route: the main city - Inner Ring Expressway - Chongqing Roundabout Expressway - Jiang Xi Expressway - Zhongshan Ancient Town
Fifth, Beibei - pig and sheep Ding Folk Culture Festival
Beibei's second Pig and Sheep Ding Folk Culture Festival will be held on the sixth of this month in the ancient town of Yiyan. Sacrificial pig in red and colorful, held by the sacrificial procession parade to pray for good luck, hoping for the coming year, good weather. The most traditional "Chongqing New Year's Taste" has been restored here, and the neighbors are treated with authentic pork soup, which should not be missed by those who like to taste pork soup.
Address: Beibei biayan town
Time: January 26
Driving route: downtown - Jinshan Avenue - Yinkun Expressway - Beijin Road - biayan ancient town
In addition to the Chinese New Year period, the general in the Magnetic Weapon Port, Huayan Temple, Republic of China Street will also hold a variety of Chinese New Year temple fair activities, let's wait and see.
Things to do in Chongqing
1. Wake up early and eat small noodles
To say that Chongqing small noodles in the hearts of Chongqing people and hot pot weight, that is a bit too much! In Chongqing, in the morning in the street to eat a bowl of hot noodles is really a kind of enjoyment, no beef, as long as with a few slices of vegetables, a few spoons of chili oil, that is a comfort.
2. Take a ride on the light rail that runs through buildings
The light rail rushes down the hill, emerges from the ground, and runs through the middle of the buildings!!!! Right, we weren't mistaken. Chongqing LRT Line 2's Liziba station is housed in a 20-story building, and nearly 10 floors above the stand are residential housing.
3. Take a ride on the Yangtze River Cableway
Once a must-have mode of transportation for the mountain city's citizens, the only remaining cableway across the river is still working today. Sitting in the old cable car, you can watch the night view of the mountain city rise and fall at your feet, as if you were in a fantasy world.
4. The Longest Escalator
Only in Chongqing will you feel the elevator, who is actually a means of transportation! 30 ° angle of inclination, very characteristic of the mountain city. This escalator connects Crown Tower at one end and Caiyuanba Railway Station at the other end, with a total length of 112 meters, which is one of the characteristic transportation means in Chongqing.
5. Visit Hongyadong at Night
Remember, you must go at night! Hongyadong is a great place to stroll around the old streets of the mountain city, view the scenery of the two rivers and taste the food of Chongqing. It is brightly lit and lively at night. Order a cup of coffee, looking at the riverside twilight, through which it is like being in a cartoon.
6. Wandering Magnetic Weapon Mouth
Chongqing literary young people must go to the place; find an afternoon, taste the old Magnetic Weapon Mouth ancient town of a thousand years of vicissitudes. Tread on the green stone road, taste the local specialties, find a person less teahouse swing Dragon Gate, feel the old Chongqing customs. Even the soil has a humanistic flavor.
7. Jiefangbei walk
Jiefangbei is Chongqing's busiest commercial circle, where department stores, high-level hotels, exquisite restaurants are countless; in the pedestrian street to all kinds of Western-style food, as small as the dumplings copied you can find, where you can really feel the charm of the metropolis of Chongqing.
8. Pacing the Hill City Trail
With the large-scale renovation of the old city, many of the Hill City Trail has slowly disappeared or has been deserted; occasionally strolling in it, to experience that wonderful sense of alternation of time and space, to see the leaves lying on the side of the road, moss roaming through the stone steps, each section of the trail has his story.