1, Spring Festival
Time: The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: Shanghai people like to put a thousand ring, put "high rise", and most of the children put some "night pearl", "scud" and other fun! ", "Scud" and other fun type of fireworks. Most of the previous stand on the balcony to put, "night pearl" a lit outward spray colorful paintballs, children like the most, every New Year's Eve there is a night pearl to put the opposite balcony of the sun clothes burned accidents, and then fewer and fewer. Firecrackers are generally concentrated in the zero hour, and the zero hour of the first five days to meet the God of Fortune, in general, to meet the God of Fortune days to put much more than the New Year.
2, Lantern Festival
Time: the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar
Introduction: Shanghai Lantern Festival customs are dragon and lion dances, hanging the Wangtian lanterns, string of horse lanterns, walk the three bridges, carry the three girls. This night, Shanghai City, inside and outside the streets and alleys, the little girl pulled the rabbit lamp, the big children held up the small red lamp, brilliant lights, such as the shooting star flashes, a few mysterious, as if in a dream world! Poem: "Mistakenly recognized as the Yao Chi, but not true, full of flowers and willows in the garden in time for the new. Test lamps in the wind tourists set, half play spring half explore spring." "Ten miles of pearl curtains are not rolled, look at the lamp people look at the lamp people." Late at night, Yuyuan Jiuqu Bridge and other places to set off large flower tube, nine dragons, flowers and butterflies and other fireworks
3, Qingming Festival
Time: April 5 calendar
Introduction: the main activities of the Qingming Festival in Shanghai is to sweep the graves, trekking, every year before and after the Qingming festival sweeping travelers nearly ten million. As a result of reform and opening up, cemeteries are flourishing, and the relevant sites are mainly located in Suzhou and Jiaxing in the provinces. As a result, the number of people traveling to these areas reaches more than one million, which often causes traffic congestion in the provinces in the days before and after Qingming. In addition, green dumplings are a seasonal snack for Qingming in the south of the Yangtze River. Its main body is made of glutinous rice flour, tempered by green moxa (grass juice) and green cake, usually with bean paste filling or sesame filling. It is usually filled with bean paste or sesame seeds. It retains the custom of cold food. For Shanghainese, green dumplings are essential offerings for ancestor worship at Ching Ming.
4. Dragon Boat Festival
Time: The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: Shanghai is traditionally a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, so water activities are almost indispensable at every Dragon Boat Festival. Some of them also dress up the boat with colorful flags, make it very beautiful, and then swing it to the water, and there are people on the boat singing, singing songs, and finally by the crowd to assess, which boat is the most beautifully decorated, who sings the best song. Shanghainese people call the incense bag is also known as incense bag, scented bag, purse. They are wrapped with colorful silk threads and sewn with rags, filled with spices (mostly made of the Chinese herbs Angelica dahurica, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Scutellaria baicalensis, Paixao, Sannai, Gansong and Gao Benxing), and are worn on the chest for a pleasant aroma. In addition to the incense bag, there are many Shanghainese, childhood are hung on the chest with a glass ribbon crocheted into a small net pocket, the inside of exactly one egg, with colorful silk thread winding, or painted with color, but also to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck.
5, Mid-Autumn Festival
Time: 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar
Introduction: "the 15th day of the 8th month smells like osmanthus flowers", on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the moon in the laurel, drinking some osmanthus honey wine factory is the people of Shanghai in the Mid-Autumn Festival dietary customs is another beautiful thing. Osmanthus not only as an ornamental flower and aromatic tree species, for people to enjoy and enjoy the value, but also has food value. In addition, Shanghainese people love to eat glutinous rice osmanthus sweet wine brew. Shanghai's Mid-Autumn Festival customs include moon worship and burning incense. Shanghai people call it "moonwalking" when they go out to enjoy the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Women traveling together at night are called "moonwalkers". The Lujia Stone Bridge outside the Xiaodongmen in Shanghai has a wonderful contrast between the reflection of the bright moon rippling in the water below the bridge and the white moon in the sky. Therefore, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the bridge is crowded with tourists competing to see it. This "Shiliang Night Moon" is very famous in Shanghai and is called one of the "Eight Scenes of Shanghai City".
6, Chenghuang Temple Fair
Time: the first month of the lunar calendar, the fifteenth
Address: Huangpu District, Shanghai
Introduction: every year before and after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the old Chenghuang Temple stores of all sizes and households hang up the production of sophisticated, colorful lanterns of a wide range of styles, which are made of glass or with the Mingjiao and other materials such as the Yuanbao Among them, there are colorful lanterns made of glass or materials such as glass, jubao basin, wind boat, lotus, bat, butterfly, golden toad, Liu Hai playing golden toad, etc., and there are colorful lanterns such as horse lanterns, rabbits, crabs, carp, mussel shells, embroidered balls, windmills, etc., which are made of materials such as silk or paper. In the Yuyuan Garden, there are lantern riddles hanging under the colorful lanterns in the Simei Xuan Tea Room, Yueyue Lou, and the Fan Shop. People also hold "Wen Lantern" and "Wu Lantern" performances on the street. The "Wen Lantern" performance team is led by the Jiangnan silk and bamboo, followed by colorful lanterns in the shape of umbrellas made of hand-held colorful paper cut-outs, marching along with the music played by the silk and bamboo. The "Wu Lantern" performance team, with a strong rhythm of the drums and gongs to start, followed by the dragon dance, tuning the lion's team, the side of the tumbling, the atmosphere is warm.
7, Shanghai Peach Blossom Festival
Time: March-April
Address: Nanhui District, Shanghai
Introduction: People are similar every year, and the flowers are different every year. Shanghai locals have always had the custom of enjoying peach blossoms in the spring, Shanghai Nanhui District, more peach trees, in order to show the beautiful rural scenery and simple folk customs, since 1991, in the peach blossom season, organized the Shanghai Peach Blossom Festival, in order to further carry forward the peach culture, and promote the development of tourism. During the festival, there are opening ceremonies, cultural performances, drilling yurts, horseback riding, racing, stepping on waterwheels, driving oxcarts, spreading nets and catching fish, weaving and pushing mills, breaking into the sea, etc., China Peach Blossom Culture Development Symposium, merchandise exhibitions and sales, visiting safari gardens, peach gardens, visiting ecological forests, tasting farm snacks, tasting seafood, and closing ceremonies.
8, Shanghai Tourism Festival
Time: Every year in September on a Saturday to start
Address: Shanghai districts and counties
Introduction: Shanghai Tourism Festival to the "people's festival" as the positioning, in order to "enter the beauty and joy". "Into the beautiful and joyful" as the theme, through the rich and colorful, distinctive Shanghai districts and counties festivals, to promote the "Belt and Road" strategy for the development of the tourism industry, attracting strong support from all sectors of the community and extensive participation. Shanghai Tourism Festival has become a symbol of Shanghai's construction of a world-famous tourism city festival, in which the traditional activities include Shanghai Tourism Festival Float Parade and Grand Prix Competition, micro-tour of Shanghai, etc.; combined with sightseeing, recreation, entertainment, culture and sports, exhibitions, food and shopping in one of the tourism experience, as well as nearly one hundred of public participation in festivals and activities, to the domestic and foreign focused on the four seasons of Shanghai's urban scenery, urban culture and urban humanities of the endless charm. The festival will be held in Shanghai, China, in the fourth quarter of 2012, and will be held in Shanghai, China.
9, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
Time: April - May
Address: Shanghai International Dance Center, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Culture Square, etc.
Introduction: The predecessor of Shanghai Spring International Music Festival is the Shanghai Spring Music and Dance Month, which was founded in 1960s, and the Shanghai Spring Music Festival, which began in the 1960s.
Introduction: The predecessor of the Shanghai Spring Music and Dance Month and the Shanghai International Radio Music Festival, which were founded in the 1960s, were formally merged in 2001 to form the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. The festival is held annually in Shanghai. Shanghai Spring International Music Festival takes "Peace, Friendship, Integration and Harmony" as its tenet, and selects the participating programs with the "Golden Chimes Award". The main activities include the exhibition of Chinese and foreign radio music programs; the selection of the Golden, Silver and Bronze Chimes Awards; radio music academic exchanges; demonstration and evaluation of outstanding music program hosts; and the exhibition of domestic and foreign audio-visual materials.
10, Shanghai International Film Festival
Time: June
Address: Shanghai Film City
Introduction: Every June, the nine-day film festival comes as promised, and has become an important landscape of Shanghai's cultural life. With the aim of presenting and encouraging diverse artistic creations, the festival has been recognized as the "fastest growing international film festival in the world" due to its rapid growth in terms of professional structure and services, and social influence since its inception. The opening red carpet of SIFF not only gathers famous filmmakers from all over the world, but also presents the latest style of Chinese film industry, which becomes the best window to show the power of Chinese films in a year, and more and more filmmakers take attending SIFF as an important opportunity to promote their films.
11, Shanghai Art Fair
Time: November
Address: Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center
Introduction: Shanghai Art Fair was founded in 1997, under the support of the government has been successfully held thirteen times, the formation of the curatorial and organizational team with professionalism, and will be the show Successfully become a collection of internationalization, boutique, standardized in one of the international art event, not only in the world and Shanghai, between the public and the art of the bridge between the very affinity, but also for the domestic art fair under the paradigm. Since its inception, more than 1,000 galleries or art agencies from more than 40 countries and regions, such as France, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Italy, etc., have participated in the Shanghai Art Fair; many original works of world-famous masters have made their debut through the huge platform of Shanghai Art Fair in China and even in Asia, such as the masterpieces of Picasso, Matisse, Rembrandt, Chagall, Dali and so on.
12, Shanghai International Tea Culture Festival
Time: April or May
Address: Jing'an District, Shanghai
Introduction: Shanghai International Tea Culture Festival is organized by the People's Government of Zhabei District, Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the Shanghai Municipal Tea Society, and it is a tea culture festival with a theme of tea culture, which has been approved by the Ministry of Culture of the State Council. Tea culture as the theme of the festival. Shanghai International Tea Culture Festival has been held once a year since 1994, and each session of Shanghai International Tea Culture Festival has attracted people from all walks of life in domestic provinces and municipalities, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and international friends from Japan, South Korea, the United States, France, Morocco and other countries as well as people from all walks of life and citizens in Shanghai to actively participate in the festival with its unique form, content and charm, and has become a famous cultural brand and festival in Shanghai. become a famous cultural brand and festival in Shanghai.
13, Shanghai National Fitness Festival
Time: November
Address: Shanghai districts and counties
Introduction: To advocate the daily fitness, health for all, in 1996 organized the first Shanghai National Fitness Festival. A number of large-scale activities will be held during the festival, hundreds of thousands of people enthusiastically participate, during which the Shanghai International Marathon is the focus of the National Fitness Festival.