Beijing folk food, a kind of thinly baked bread, is also called pancake. Every year on beginning of spring Day, Beijingers eat spring cakes, which are called "biting spring". On the second day of the second lunar month, it is the day when the dragon looks up, as an old saying in China says. On this day, Beijingers also eat spring cakes, which is called "eating Long Lin". Spring cakes are bigger and more resilient than pancakes with roast duck, because there are many dishes to roll.

2. Peking Opera

Known as the quintessence of Chinese culture, Beijing Opera has a history of more than 200 years. Its predecessor was Hui Diao, commonly known as Pihuang Opera. Pay equal attention to singing and dancing in performance, melt martial arts skills, use virtual movements with strong sense of rhythm, and create many procedural performance movements. When singing, pay attention to articulation, and chanting is musical. It has gradually formed a complete artistic style and performance system in singing, reading, doing and playing.

3. dough modeling

Dough figurines are commonly known as dough figurines and Jiangmi figurines. In history, there are folk customs such as kneading "moon cake" and "noodle fish" with flour on holidays, which leads to the art of dough sculpture. After several generations of folk artists' inheritance and development, Beijing dough sculpture art has absorbed the essence of other arts, learned from others and constantly explored, and gradually formed a dough sculpture art school with Beijing characteristics. "Mianrenlang" is one of the schools.

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Characteristics of folk customs in Beijing;

Beijing is rich in folk cultural resources, ranking first in China in terms of quantity, variety and unique content. Beijing, the ancient capital, has always been a gathering place for immigrants. It is not only inhabited by residents of dozens of nationalities from all over China, but also by diplomatic envoys, business guests and cultural exchange messengers from all over the world, as well as international students and cultural tourists.

For thousands of years, the quaint and unique ethnic customs have made Beijing's social landscape rich and colorful. Among them, the most distinctive is the life customs of Yanzhao's hometown, with its handicrafts, textiles, printing and dyeing, clothing, diet, festive customs, wedding and funeral customs, business customs and Liyuan guild hall customs, all of which have distinct regional characteristics.

Source of reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing