January 1 (Spring Festival),
February 2 (Bogong Festival),
March Chingming April 8 (Buddha Bathing Festival);
May Festival (Duanwu),
June 6 (Birthday of the Sun),
July 14 (Festival of the Ghosts) August 30 (Mid-Autumn Festival);
September (Chung Yeung), October (Ox God's Birthday);
November (Winter Solstice), December (New Year).
The above-listed festivals are, of course, the most important traditional festivals in Huizhou. But in fact, there are some other important festivals, such as "the first half of the first month (Lantern Festival)" on the 15th of the first month, "Guanyin's Birthday" on the 19th of February, "the 7th of July" on the 7th of July, etc., which are all popular traditional festivals in Huizhou. These are some of the popular traditional festivals. As for festivals, Huizhou folk have a jingle:
The first half of the month, set the lanterns, a doll, set a few layers;
February 2, Bohonghui, go to drink sprinkles, a large handful of vegetables;
March, is the clearing of the Ming Dynasty, go to mow the grass, burn paper money;
April 8, the peach is good to bite, the fresh fish store, salted fish night bazaar;
May Festival, rowing the Dragon Boat, the dragon drums ringing, by the Great River;
May Festival, dragon boat, Dragon Drums, the dragon drums, the dragon drums, the dragon drums, the dragon drums, the dragon drums, the Dragon Boats.
June 6, sunbathing clothes, steaming water and candles;
July 7, ding ding ding ding, water on the eve of July, a few Cheng;
August 30, Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes and fun;
September 9, Chrysanthemum Day, Harriers and Harriers,
October, patties and patties, and a half a basket of rice;
November Winter, December, new patties and patties, and new patties and cakes, and a half a basket of rice;
November, Winter, and December, new patches and cakes,
These are the most popular ones. In December, we wear new clothes and go to pay respect to the New Year.
The Dragon Dance and Lion Dance of the Spring Festival
The Dragon Dance of the Huizhou folk has a typical Guangdong style. The dragon dances are made by themselves. The main skeleton of the dragon's head is made of bamboo,
The exterior is covered with paper and lacquer, and colored cloth is used for the body of the dragon, and the whole dragon is 13 zhang long, which is about 42 meters. Dragon dance, the front by the sun and moon
board, plaques, lanterns, color team (disguised as folk tales through the ages), arowana, phoenix, lion, miscellaneous water (by the people
dressed fish, shrimp, crab, mussels, etc.) in the front of the road, and finally is the living dragon. All the way to the drums and music, all the way to the drums and music,
Number of people from the more, voluminous, through the streets and alleys, the city sensation. Dragon through the place, from time to time there are elders with children and grandchildren in the dragon's stomach
drilling under the drilling to drill, so-called "drilling dragon frame", meaning that the hope of the son of the dragon, dragon dance "drilling dragon frame", "hunting dragon public
"Dragon Dance", "Dragon Hunting",
"Pai Dragon Stickers" and other folklore, quite Huizhou's local characteristics.
Huizhou folk lion dance activities and dragon dance have the same characteristics. After the lion tied up, the first to Yuanmiao Guan "open eyes", and
"grab green" activities. Early in the morning on the first day of the new year, the lion team by the master with a box to lead the way, lions, drums, cymbals and cymbals, holding a variety of cold weapons martial arts team in order to perform, wherever you go, shopkeepers, households, firecrackers to welcome, and seal the red envelopes, lively and bustling, and has been extended to the first month of the fifteenth only to come to an end.
Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Racing
Dragon Boat Festival, Huizhou folk called "May Festival". Racing dragon boats, Huizhou folk called "picking dragon boat May Festival". In Huizhou, there is a folk song circulating: "May Festival, picking the dragon boat, dragon drums sound, the big river". Every year, the first to the sixth day of May on the lunar calendar, Huizhou are held in the traditional dragon boat racing activities, after a thousand years, often flourishing.
Every year on the lunar calendar, "May Day", Huizhou is mostly full of river water, "dragon boat water" so that the streets (villages) of the dragon boat fleet interest doubled. May Festival in the past, in the Dongjiang River, completed the pre-race ceremony of the dragon boat team along the river in batches to hold a dragon boat race. The participating dragon boats first went down the river, then up against the water, and finally sprinted to determine the winners and losers. The prizes are mostly huajiang (bamboo skewers hanging the whole cloth with tissue paper pasted all over it), and those who set up the prizes are mostly local merchants and tycoons. The winner puts the "huajiang" in the bow of the boat and travels up the river as an honor.
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Every year on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Huizhou said: half of the eighth month.
The Huizhou folk Mid-Autumn Festival is second only to the Spring Festival, a large-scale celebration of the festival.
In order to have a good Mid-Autumn Festival, Huizhou folk from the festival sheep a month from the start of the festival preparations, buy moon cakes (a kind of white glutinous rice flour with white sugar made of white cake), wind corn, Lingjiao, table elephants, red persimmon, taro, pomelo, peanuts and other eatables, of course, every family is essential to the moon cakes and lanterns.
Chongyang Festival climbing, kite flying
Every year, the first nine days of the ninth lunar month for the Chongyang Festival. Huizhou folk have the custom of climbing up and flying kites on the Chongyang Festival.
According to folklore, the Chongyang Festival ascent can bring good luck to the climbers, and three consecutive years of ascent will bring good fortune. From the sense of physical exercise to shield, Chongyang Festival climbing does have its unique benefits. Chongyang Festival when the early autumn, autumn high cool, this time to climb, physical and mental gains are not usually comparable to both exercise, enhance physical fitness, to the top of this mountain, lifting the eyes far away, the mountains and rivers in full view, people's spirit, mood.
Now, every year, the most spectacular Chanyang Festival climbing Luofu Mountain, Jiulongfeng, Xiangtou Mountain, the city's high list of mountains, Fengshan, etc., especially located in Boro Luofu Mountain, every year, the night before the Chanyang Festival (the eighth of September on the Lunar Calendar) more than 100,000 people from the city's counties and Dongguan, Zengcheng, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, the ascension of the Luofu Mountain's peak one after another to the top of the top of the fly to the top of the mountain, the people waiting for the sunrise of the night at the top of the mountain to sit around, each other! Blessing. Sunrise, fireworks, firecrackers ringing to the sky, and the rising sun mingled together, quite spectacular, according to the relevant departments of statistics, the number of people in recent years to Luofu mountain climbing every year there are more than 100,000 up to more than three hundred thousand, so that Luofu mountain climbing to become the Lingnan Chung Yeung Festival event.
The release of paper harriers on the Day of the Chrysanthemum is a more unique custom in Huizhou. Huizhou folk ballad sings: September 9, is a heavy sun; release the harrier, line love long. According to China's traditional habits, kite flying is generally more in the clear time. Due to climatic reasons, Huizhou people are using the Chongyang Festival during the moderate wind, and will not rain, autumn high, so, to the Chongyang Festival, kite flying enthusiasts with a variety of kites to the open space to show their skills, now more favored by the kite flyers preferred place is the city's Binjiang Park and is located in the north of the sports park.