Shijiazhuang Spring Festival Folklore
Wuji Paper Cutting
Wuji paper cutting began in ancient times and flourished in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Every festival and wedding, people use paper-cutting to make lanterns, hang colorful paper, cut yearly blessings (talisman), and stick window flowers to express their love of life and feelings. Wuji paper-cutting is rich in modeling, wide range of subjects, and rich in life, and its style is influenced by Shanxi and Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings, which has gradually formed a unique art of paper-cutting.
Chengding Changshan War Drums
Chengding Changshan War Drums have a long history, as early as in the Warring States period has taken shape, to the Ming Dynasty has been prevalent in the folk, Zhengding is the history of "Changshan County" location, so it is called "Changshan War Drums". The Changshan War Drum is a folkloric gong and drum made up of drums, cymbals, cymbals, small cymbals, small gongs and other percussion instruments, and is mainly used in plaza performances.
The Changshan War Drums are powerful, encouraging and inspiring, and produce a sense of grandeur and invincibility. So in the Spring Festival, temple fairs and other major festivals, activities are to be invited to help, in order to strengthen the prestige.
Jingfu Lahua
Jingfu Lahua originated from the street square flower fair during folk festivals, temple fairs, celebrations, and worship of gods, and it has been excavated, sorted out, and developed many times, and it has become famous throughout the country and overseas. Since ancient times, there have been the customs of performing flower show, fireworks and lanterns in the New Year in Jingfu, and the Jingfu Lahua is the main program in the flower show, with its stretching and generous dance, rigid and soft, and the music is simple and elegant, robust and deep, which brings a wonderful visual feast for the masses.
Jinzhou official umbrella
Official umbrella originated and circulated in the Jinzhou territory of the old city, acacia, east lodging and Chengguan area of the Han folk dance to dancers holding umbrellas to perform and named. The official umbrella is the ancient rulers to show off the authority, status and set up one of the ceremonial weapons, with the evolution of the times, customary changes, the role of the umbrella gradually faded, breaking through the social hierarchy and spread to the folk, the Han folk dance art, to create a festive, warm and peaceful 'New Year's festive atmosphere.
Ligao City Palace Lantern
Ligao City Palace Lantern for Ligao City specialties, began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, according to legend, the Eastern Han Dynasty Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu settled, in order to celebrate the unification of the world's achievements, in the court of lights and colorful banquets, hanging lanterns exquisite, the name of the lanterns from this, and later the lamps of the production of the technology into the private sector. According to legend, the Ming Dynasty Ligaocheng Tuntou village Li master handmade gauze lamps, beautiful and bright, wind-resistant and durable as a feature, well-known, business is thriving, the art of heirloom and uninterrupted.
Nowadays, Ligustrum Palace Lantern as Hebei Province intangible cultural heritage protection project, in recent years can be said to be a household name. Its exquisite shape, simple structure, colorful, auspicious, has become the New Year festivities decorate the home, the best gift to friends of the ornaments.
Chengde
The Spring Festival begins on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year
The Spring Festival in the Chengde area actually begins on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. On the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, all monasteries and households are required to make congee, which is called Laha congee, to commemorate the day of the attainment of enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, and to celebrate the abundance of the five mundane valleys, and on this day, New Year's paintings, firecrackers, and meats start to be listed on the market. Lunar New Year 23 this day, every family to sweep the courtyard, this day is known as "over the small year", generally every family to set up a banquet, sacrifices Zaowang. On the 25th day of the Lunar New Year, spring scrolls start to be posted, and the festive atmosphere becomes stronger and stronger.
New Year's Eve night, the whole family ate a reunion dinner, wrapped dumplings, prepared cold spell, to 12:00 a.m., the firecrackers went off to welcome the new year. The first day of the New Year to pay homage to each other, *** happy with the same music, the second please aunt, the girl back to the door, the third will be in-laws, the fourth will be friends, the climax of the Spring Festival on the fifth end. The first month of the 15th on the Yuan Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, people play dragon lanterns, dance rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, playing lions, day and night to enjoy. After the sixteenth day of the first month, all walks of life began to press on, resumed business, the Spring Festival to this end.
Hengshui
To honor the gods, incense is burned and statues of the gods are posted
In the folklore of Hengshui, some people start to buy new year's goods as soon as the month of Lunar New Year begins, in preparation for New Year's. As the Spring Festival draws nearer and nearer, the people of Hengshui begin to make preparations. As the Spring Festival draws nearer, the "flavor of the year" is getting stronger and stronger, to the 23rd day of the lunar month, the prologue of the New Year's Day was unveiled, this day to "live a small year", families to send the stove in the evening.
According to the old Hengshui folk custom, the 24th day of the Lunar New Year to sweep the house, the symbol of sweeping away the year's dust and filth, clean to meet the arrival of the New Year. Households will be cleaned inside and out, the habitual home furnishings to change the location, move the place. Colorful New Year's paintings are pasted on suitable places indoors, and the door is decorated with a portrait of the god of the door, spring couplets, and the word "blessing" is pasted on the wall of the shadow wall.
Xingtai
First five firecrackers broken five do not strings
Since ancient times, five days is the day of evil, the fifth day of the first month of the first five is known as "broken five". This day is also hate the poor day, to firecrackers and do not string door, to prevent to other people's homes to bring the poor gas. In some places, this day to do some light labor, hoping that through this day of symbolic labor to get rich. After "breaking five", some people start to prepare for the Lantern Festival program, some stores in the city will be open for business.
Handan
Throwing Sorrowful Hats at Spring Festival
Handan has a strange custom of throwing sorrowful hats during New Year's Eve celebrations. Throwing sad hats are in the New Year's Eve when the night is quiet. Each family before going to bed, the head of the old hat or old scarf, quietly thrown into the street. The next day, when cleaning the streets, and then sweep them into the nooks and crannies of the wall, to the night of the fifteenth of the next month to roast "afraid of the spirit of the fire" when burned. It is said that you can throw away a year of old worries, usher in a year of new joy.