Folk Customs of Guanghan

Guanghan Baobao Festival

The Baobao Festival evolved from the traditional folk custom of "swimming for a hundred diseases" and pulling "Baobao". It is held on the sixteenth day of the first month of every year in two parks in Guanghan. The BaoBao Festival is held in two parks in Guanghan on the 16th day of the first month of every year, i.e. Fanghu Park and Jinyan Lake Park. With this way of pulling Baobao to beg for children to grow up safely. Is a very influential local folk customs, every day to this day are going out to play, for the child to worship godfather, knot dry relatives, that is, pulling the BaoBao. "BaoBao" is the godfather.

The BaoBao Festival is a very influential festival in the western Sichuan plains. At this time of the year, tourists from all over the country and even overseas come to Guanghan to attend the Baobao Festival Sacred Meeting.

Peach Blossom Festival

Guanghan Lianshan (including present-day Songlin Township and Shuangquan Township) was rich in fruits, with many peach trees at the foot of shallow hills and flat dam areas below the slopes, and a few plum trees in between. Every year after the hibernation festival, peach blossom, and plum blossom contrast. Peach and plum, known as the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, attracting many tourists, in the Republic of China, the formation of peach blossom will.

Dragon and Lion Light Competition

The Sanxingdui dragons in Guanghan are mainly of two types: dancing dragons (commonly known as "playing dragon lanterns") and burning dragons (commonly known as "burning dragon lanterns"). There are also water dragons, fire dragons, gold dragons, pendulum dragons and other four classifications. Water dragon is a dragon dance on the water, must use the boat, and later with the "dragon boat" combined into another form of folklore, fire dragon that is burned dragon lanterns, gold dragon and pendulum dragon is the form of dragon dance, props and dance technique changes, in fact, is a dragon dance is the result of the continuous evolution of the dragon, such as the rise of the 50-meter-long dragon in Guanghan.

On February 26, 2002, the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Horse, the first "Guanghan First Dragon Lantern, Lion Lantern Competition" was held in the Dale Plaza.