1, Spring Festival
Time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: in the northwestern Longdong area, there has always been to send the God of Wealth of the New Year. Wake up on the first day to go out to see the God of Fortune orientation, choose to go, according to the heavenly stem and earthly branches, to determine the God of joy, the God of Fortune, the God of honor is located in the direction of the God. In addition, in some places in Longdong, people believe that the second day is the God of Wealth Festival. The morning of this day, there are people going door to door to send or sell the God of Fortune statue, households are paying, do not want, can only say "already", taboo answer "do not", for good luck.
2, Lantern Festival
Time: the first month of the lunar calendar, the fifteenth
Introduction: In the past, Lanzhou City, suburbs and counties of the vast rural areas, in the first month of the sixteenth night of the fire across the custom. Across the fire is the last activity of the Spring Festival activities, intended to "drive away evil, descending blessing descending auspicious", so the people attach great importance to. After dinner on the 16th day of the first month, every family should pile up a pile of grass in front of their house, usually five or seven piles. Then one by one to ignite, the pile of grass can be turned into a blazing fire. The whole family according to the size of the generation, the age of the young in order from the fire across the past, but also across two or three times, until the blazing fire slowly extinguished until. When crossing the fire, as long as the family members cross the fire one by one, the children from the neighboring houses will also join in.
3, Dragon Boat Festival
Time: the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: Gansu Jingning State Dragon Boat Festival picking roses pickled in honey for syrup; Zhenyuan County Dragon Boat Festival to the newlyweds, incense fan, Luoqi, scarf, Ai Hu; Zhang County, the shepherd boy worship mountain gods, accumulation of pay hill, burned in front of the cock crows, commonly known as the "burn! GaoShan"; Gaoyou's Dragon Boat Festival is more special, there are tied hundreds of rope, stick five poison, sticker, put yellow smoke, eat "twelve red" and other customs, the children Xing hanging "duck eggs LuoZi", is to pick the good-looking duck eggs in the colorful thread knotted LuoZi, hanging in the chest. The children are also very excited to hang "duck eggs", which means that they pick good-looking duck eggs and put them in the colorful threads and hang them on their chest.
4, Qingming Festival
Time: around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar
Introduction: flowers, tree planting, memorial service, Internet memorial service, etc. has gradually become the fashion of Gansu Qingming Festival. In the past, the old Lanzhou people sweep the time, generally from the "Tiansha" began to the day of the Qingming, "Tiansha" is also called the first day of sacrifice. "Tiansha" in the folk there is a simple projection method: that is, "nine end ten days for Tiansha".
5, Mid-Autumn Festival
Time: 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: Mid-Autumn Festival, Lanzhou people's main activity is to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. According to China's calendar, the eighth month of the lunar calendar in the middle of autumn, the second month of autumn, known as "mid-autumn", and the fifteenth day of the eighth month is in the "mid-autumn", so it is known as "Mid-Autumn Festival", on the Mid-Autumn Festival was first recorded in the Ming Dynasty. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, there has been a custom of enjoying the moon in Lanzhou of China since ancient times, and it is recorded in the Book of Rites that "the moon is set in the autumn sunset", i.e., the moon god is worshipped. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night was held to welcome the cold and offer the moon, set up a large incense burner and set out moon cakes, watermelon, apples, plums, grapes and other seasonal fruits. Among them, moon cakes and watermelon are absolutely indispensable, and the watermelon has to be cut into lotus shape.
6, Lahai Festival
Time: the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: Gansu local Lahai this day does not drink porridge, but to eat "Lahai grits rice". In fact, Lanzhou people's "Lahai grits rice", is evolved from the Lahai congee, thicker than the congee, only Lahai congee is used to drink, and Lahai grits rice can not be drunk and can only be eaten. In fact, this "Laha grits rice" is the most characteristic Laha seasonal food. In the past, Gansu people eat "Laha grits rice", to be eaten before dawn. Legend has it that whoever ate the grits and rice on Lahai early, whoever's crops will be yellow early, ripe early. The grits and rice on the eighth day of the month, however, can not eat all eat all, to stay part of the intention is to eat the rest of the year
7, Spring Festival fire
Time: the first ten days of the first month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: Lanzhou streets of fire performances are unique. Generally from the first month of the lunar calendar around the beginning of the tenth, organized by the districts and counties of the farmers social fire team gathered in the city center, in order to form different shapes of the formation, along the main street side line dance, beating gongs and drums, lively and spectacular. When traveling to Dongfanghong Square, more around the figure, for visitors and the public performance. Social fire performances can last until around the Lantern Festival.
8, April 8 Temple Fair
Time: the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: Dunhuang "April 8 Temple Fair" is a traditional folk festival. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, local residents, especially Buddhist believers in honor of Sakyamuni Nirvana, with the old and the young, in groups, gathered in the Mogao Grottoes, the Three Dangerous Hills, Leiyin Temple to burn incense to worship the Buddha, a pilgrimage to pay homage to their ancestors. On this day, people with pious psychology to the Buddha to tell the inner pain and trouble, seek Buddha blessing, or pray for wealth, or seek to eliminate disasters, or seek children, or seek official. When all this is done, out of the caves, temples, people are relieved, doubly confident. This day the entire cave area, the temple, a sea of people, the situation is endless.
9, Langmusi first month show Buddha Festival
Time: the first three days of the first month of the lunar calendar to the sixteenth day of the first month
Location: Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Luqu County Langmusi town
Introduction: the puja from the first three nights of the first month to the end of the sixteenth day of the first month. During the period held chanting, release, show Buddha, dancing, ghee lanterns, turn Shambhala and a series of Buddhist activities, and the first month of the thirteenth held in the show Buddha is the monks and laymen *** with the participation of the largest and most solemn activities, so the summoning of the Great Dharma will be such as we are more often referred to as foreign laymen, "show Buddha Festival". During the entire period of the Great Dharma Assembly, all the monks will collectively recite sutras six times a day in the Great Sutra Hall, in order of dawn meeting, morning debate, noon meeting, prayer meeting, evening tea meeting, evening debate, the content of which is to recite the sutras and sermons, dispel calamities and pray for blessings, and to wish that the Dharma will always be present and the Buddha's affairs will flourish.
10, Xiahe Labrang Monastery Great Dharma Assembly
Time: the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the seventeenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the lunar calendar June 29 to the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar
Location: Xiahe Labrang Monastery in Gansu Province
Introduction: Xiahe Labrang Monastery is one of the six principal monasteries of Gelu sect of Tibetan Buddhism in China, and is the largest Lamaist institution in the world. Lamaism school, there are seven large-scale pujas every year. Puja activities include: sunshine Buddha, Dharma dance, chanting, praying and other Buddhist activities, examining monks exams, religious debates, and the January Tibetan Wave Mountain Festival activities.
11, Zhuanglang first month of the twelfth Cultural Arts Festival
Time: the twelfth day of the first month of the lunar calendar
Location: Zhuanglang County, Pingliang City, Gansu
Introduction: the twelfth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the birth anniversary of the famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty, General Liu Hu. Zhuanglang (Shuiluo Town) people remember when Liu Hu built Shuiluo City to resist foreign intrusion, to protect the people of Zhuanglang significant achievements, in the twelfth day of the first month of every year to hold a grand commemorative activities, so far, has been a thousand years long. Its manifestations for the folk fire into the city performances, worship temple and other activities, in recent years has evolved into a traditional festival. Zhuanglang social fire has a long history, unique style, especially the "high platform" art famous Long, 2004 was officially identified as the city's first batch of national folk culture protection projects. In order to better protect and pass on this precious folk cultural heritage, in recent years, Zhuanglang County every year in the first month of the lunar calendar, the twelfth county cultural and arts festival, attracting the people of the townships flocked to the whole county converged into a sea of joy.
12, Bathing Buddha Festival
Time: the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar
Location: Dunhuang City, Gansu Province
Introduction: Dunhuang, "April 8 Temple Fair" is a major local folk traditional festival, from ancient to modern, Mogao Grottoes year after year to hold a grand festival. are to be held every year a grand temple fair bathing Buddha Festival. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, local residents, especially Buddhist believers will come here to burn incense to worship Buddha, pilgrimage to the ancestors, in addition there will be food stalls, handicrafts stores, eyebrows to performances, and so on.
13, Linxia Songmingyan flowers will
Time: April 26 lunar calendar
Location: Linxia
Introduction: Songmingyan flowers will be also known as the "April 8 flowers will be" is an ancient traditional folk activities, originating from the Buddhist Longhua Assembly. Originated from the Buddhist Longhua Assembly. Every year in the lunar calendar April 26 to 29 in the Hezheng County National Forest Park, National 4A level tourist attractions, provincial scenic spots Songming Rock will be held in the flower, Gansu Province, one of the three famous flower venue, but also the birthplace of the Hezhou flower. Songmingyan flower will be compared with other flower will, the prominent feature is more music accompaniment, is a typical form of Hezhou flower. 2003 China Folk Literature and Artists Association named Hezheng County for the "Chinese flower inheritance base. 2006 Songmingyan flower will be approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Flowers will be during the hundred miles around, hundreds of thousands of people towards the mountain to the meeting, when the singer gathered, businessmen and businesswomen, such as a tide of people, song field like the sea.
14, Fuxi Cultural Festival
Time: the thirteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar
Location: Tianshui City, Gansu Province
Introduction: Fuxi Cultural Festival is the annual large-scale rituals of Fuxi ceremony of the Han Chinese traditional folk festivals in Tianshui City, Gansu Province, Tianshui, Fuxi Culture and Tourism Festival by the Municipal People's Government to host a public ceremony! Chinese humanities ancestor Fu Xi Ceremony and China Tianshui Fu Xi Cultural Tourism Festival.
15, wave mountain festival
Time: Tibetan calendar June 9
Location: Langmu Temple
Introduction: wave mountain festival, the Tibetan language, called "incense Luang Festival". According to the examination, is the Qing Kangxi forty-nine years (AD 1710), Labrang Monastery hundreds of monks in a specific time of the year, to the field to pick pay the continuation and development of the custom. In the Tibetan language, "Langshan" means "to collect firewood". Once upon a time, monks in the mountainous areas after logging, boredom, they will arrange a festival to play in the mountains, gradually spread into the folk, evolved into today's Tibetan wave mountain festival. Gansu Gannan Tibetan area, every lunar June, the climate is mild, sunny, between farming, families pack up pots and pans cooking utensils, food and drink items, the whole family, young and old, to the wild hillside, meadow, riverside choose a good place, set up a tent, dressed in costume, will be dining, drinking, singing and dancing. The Tibetans in the Langshan Festival set up a beautiful tent on the grassland, with flocks of cows and sheep under the blue sky and white clouds, as if in heaven and on earth.
16, Huanxian Daoxiang shadow art festival
Time: Lunar July
Place: Huanxian
Introduction: China's Huanxian Daoxiang shadow art has a long history and a long history, on behalf of the Chinese Gansu flavor of the play - Long Opera art is precisely to the unique characteristics of the Huanxian Daoxiang is authentic. Huanxian folk Taoist shadow theater has been established for more than 300 years. In the 1950s three times to Beijing performance, by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other party and state leaders of the warm reception and praise. 1960 January, Gansu Provincial Party Committee, the provincial government of the Huanxian Daoxiang formally named "Long Opera", become a unique style of Gansu flavor of the play. During the festival, held a folk Taoist shadow play repertoire competition, shadow crafts exhibition, shadow art reform and development seminars, as well as calligraphy and painting exhibition, young singers Grand Prix, large-scale Long Opera performances and other related cultural activities and trade and tourism activities.
17, Lanzhou New Year's Concert
Time: New Year's Day every year
Location: Jincheng Grand Theater
Introduction: Lanzhou New Year's Concert has been held since 1998, and it is one of the earliest cities in the country to hold New Year's Concert. Since 2003, it has been merged with the municipal government's New Year's Day reception to become an annual cultural extravaganza sponsored by the municipal government.
18, peach blossom will
Time: April every year
Location: Lanzhou City, Anning District Peach Garden
Introduction: Anning peach a long history of planting is one of the country's famous peach townships, every year in late spring, the ten miles of peach township, "everywhere peach trees, peach trees, peach blossoms, and the piece of spit The peach blossoms are spitting out in pieces". Since the late Qing Dynasty, Anning Peach Forest gradually known. Since then, Anning Peach Garden is a good place for Lanzhou citizens to enjoy flowers in spring. Every year at the end of spring to Anning Fort as the center, traffic, a lot of tourists. Numerous literati lingered under the trees, drinking and writing poems, leaving countless good stories. Anti-Japanese War period, Northwest Normal University moved ten miles store, some large, medium and small school students collective spring tour, the formation of loose peach blossom will. 1984, the city and district people's government organized by the annual peach blossom will be and material exchanges, publicity Lanzhou, publicity Anning. In addition to trekking and enjoying flowers, tourists can also visit the rich and colorful cultural activities, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, economic and trade negotiations.
19, "Dunhuang summer" cultural performances
Time: June to October each year
Location: Dunhuang Hotel Kabuki days in Dunhuang City
Introduction: "Dunhuang summer The "Summer of Dunhuang" cultural performance is a large-scale song and dance performance provided by the city of Dunhuang for tourists. The activity is organized by Dunhuang Hotel, with strong cultural characteristics of the Silk Road, reflecting the song and dance art of the Hui, Tibet, Uygur, Mongolia and other multi-ethnic groups in the northwest. The songs and dances were mainly modeled on material from the Mogao Caves murals and featured Dunhuang dances, recreating the dances, costumes and music of the various ethnic groups along the Silk Road.
20, sandboarding festival
Time: June every year
Location: Dunhuang City, Gansu Province
Introduction: "sand clearing ridge", is one of the ancient Dunhuang eight scenes. Every year on June 1, Dunhuang will hold a large sandboarding festival, when hundreds of sandboarding enthusiasts together from the top of the mountain down the slope, the whole mountain issued a thunderous roar, five kilometers away from the city can clearly hear the sound.
21, Shambhala Tourism and Arts Festival
Time: July every year
Location: Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province
Introduction: Shambhala Tourism and Arts Festival is the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture capital of the city of cooperation organized annually by the large-scale comprehensive tourism festivals, the festival during the momentum of the thousands of horsemen and horses During the festival, there is a powerful horse procession of 1,000 horsemen and a magnificent performance of 2,000 people's pot Zhuang dance; there is a graceful display of national costumes and a splendid and colorful performance of national dances; there is a blazing bonfire party and a deep performance of lama bands; there are also rich and heavy Tibetan opera, national sports competitions, musket shooting, tent displays, singing by famous artists, and folk singing and other arts and sports activities.
22, Lanzhou Waterwheel Festival
Time: July every year
Location: Waterwheel Expo Park
Introduction: A grand opening ceremony will be held, printed with the Waterwheel Festival logo of the colorful flags, colorful balls fluttering in the wind, drums and music. The large waterwheel in the Expo Park slowly rotating, high-pitched, melodious Gansu "flower" sung on the riverbank. In addition, a row of sheepskin rafts on the wide surface of the Yellow River downstream, chopping waves, constituting a unique picture of the western flavor.
23, Jiayuguan International Gliding Festival
Time: July every year
Location: Jiayuguan Gliding Base
Activities: Mainly there are the formation flights of fighter planes, flights of ultra-light planes, the flights of ballooning, and the flights of trainer planes, glider flights, parachuting at the fixed point, aerobatics, parachute jumping, and other exciting shows and competitions. competitions, as well as international gliding up to the standard, record-breaking flights and large-scale national aviation games.
24, Zhangye Horseshoe Temple Sightseeing and Tourism Festival
Time: August every year
Location: Horseshoe Temple Tourism and Tourism Area, Su'nan County, Zhangye
Introduction: Every year, in mid-August, a large-scale sightseeing and tourism activities will be held in the Horseshoe Temple. During the event, there are wonderful equestrian, singing and dancing performances, and you can also enjoy sports and athletic competitions with local national characteristics.
25, Lanzhou Silk Road Festival
Time: September every year
Location: Lanzhou
Introduction: Lanzhou China Silk Road Festival, was founded in September 10-17, 1992, and has been held annually since then. Silk Road Festival to "openness, friendship, development" for the purpose of culture, tourism, trade, science and technology exchanges as a whole, science and technology, economic and trade exchanges as the main event. Various kinds of commodity exhibitions, fairs and commodity streets arranged during the festival, famous local specialties, high-tech achievements, adding new colors and charms to the festival in Lanzhou.
26, Dunhuang Grape Festival
Time: September every year
Location: Dunhuang City, Gansu Province
Introduction: Since ancient times, Yangguan abound in grapes, as the world's most suitable for cultivation of grapes, one of the four regions, Dunhuang in recent years to grapes, "as a medium!
Introduction: Since ancient times, Yangguan produced grapes, and as one of the four areas recognized as the most suitable for planting fresh grapes in the world, Dunhuang City has in recent years taken grapes "as a medium" to strengthen foreign exchanges and promote tourism development through the organization of a set of grapes exhibition and marketing promotion, investment promotion, cultural demonstration, tourism and sightseeing in one of the Dunhuang grape festival. It is understood that the festival activities include camel riding contest, a hundred people woodblock carving contest, the national grape cooperative organization experience exchange meeting, the characteristics of fruits and vegetables exhibition and marketing, the top ten famous fresh grapes show evaluation, "grape flying fairy" float parade and other activities.