1. Lion dance: It is more popular in Ninghai County, Ningbo City. Usually in the first month of the lunar calendar or Buddhist-related festivals, dozens of farmers form teams and go to each village to take turns dancing lions to show respect for their ancestors and welcome gods. , ward off evil spirits and dispel demons.
Lion dances include solo dances, duet dances, and group dances. Most of them are three lion dances, one male, one female, and one cub. They dance while beating gongs and drums, and the most exciting performance is "grabbing five lanterns" , that is, a lamp is placed in the middle and four corners of the venue, and the lion dances wildly in the middle, playing, biting, and grabbing the lamp, etc., with the crowd watching all around. ?
2. Dragon boat racing: Urban and rural dragon boat racing is mainly held in ponds, rivers and lakes. Dragon boats are divided into green dragon, yellow dragon, white dragon, etc. Dragon boat racing is usually held on the fifth day of the fifth month and the sixteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year. held. The former is said to be the day when Qu Yuan, the patriotic poet and Sanlu official of the Chu State, threw himself into the Miluo River. He rowed a dragon boat to represent people racing to rescue him.
The latter is the Mid-Autumn Festival in Ningbo. In addition to holding temple fairs, dragon boat racing can add to the festive entertainment atmosphere. When the race started, the rowing crew raised their heads high, and one person stood in front of the dragon boat and beat the gongs to direct. The costumes were the same color as the dragon boats. Firecrackers sounded, the dragon boats fired in unison, and the sound of gongs and drums and the shouts of the crowd watching on the shore were endless. The scene was very exciting. It’s fun, whoever reaches the finish line first wins. The dragon boats at Dongqian Lake in Ningbo are the most famous.
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Ningbo’s urbanization process continues to accelerate, and infrastructure construction has been further intensified. The new round of urban master plan revision work has been basically completed, and the planning of key areas such as the Eastern New City, Yuci Group, and Hangzhou Bay New Area continues to deepen. The fixed asset investment in environmental and public infrastructure was 9.04 billion yuan throughout the year, of which 5.43 billion yuan was invested in urban areas.
The urban area focuses on the construction of urban skeleton road and bridge projects such as the South Outer Ring, North Outer Ring, Ningjiang Road, Dazha Road, Yucai Road, and Tongtu Road, and the construction of Binjiang Avenue and Landscape Phase II, and Rihu Park. , Fuming Park, South Station Square renovation and landscape improvement project, renovation of non-commercial suites and other popular projects.
120 kilometers of urban roads were newly built and expanded throughout the year, including 40 kilometers in the urban area, and 266 hectares of new public green space were added, including 136 hectares in the urban area.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ningbo