1, Huanglongxi Fire Dragon Festival
Time: the second day of the first month of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year
Location: Huanglongxi Town, Shuangliu District, Chengdu City
Introduction: Shuangliu County, Huanglongxi town of the ancient fire dragon lantern dance has a long history of origin, originating in the Southern Song Dynasty, the second day of the first month of the first month of every year to the first day of the 15th It is held from the second day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month every year as scheduled. Its activities include burning fire dragons, colorful dragon show, southern lion show, floating river lanterns, setting off Kongming lanterns, fireworks, listening to the Sichuan opera seat singing, and so on.
2, Chengdu Lantern Festival
Time: The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar
Location: Chengdu City
Introduction: Chengdu Lantern Festival is a traditional folkloric activity developed on the basis of Lantern Appreciation Customs in the Lantern Festival. Lu You, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, described in his poem "Ding You Shang Yuan" the spectacle of the lantern festival in Chengdu as "Suddenly the ballpark is covered with embroidered peaks, with thousands of tourists and ladies; the drums blowing all the way up to the noon gate, and the lanterns moving in the twilight with thousands of torches". Since 1962, Chengdu has resumed the Spring Festival Lantern Festival, which lasts for one month. During the festival, the park has folk music, acrobatics, juggling performances; a variety of local flavor snacks; and casting sugar man's tandem, selling windmills of grass handle, each festival visitors are more than a million people.
3, Chengdu Flower Festival
Time: the 15th day of the second month of the lunar calendar
Location: Chengdu
Introduction: Chengdu Flower Festival began in the Tang and Song dynasties, the address is in Chengdu outside the West Gate of the Qingyang Palace, at that time, Chengdu, near the state-run, collective flower gardens and the majority of flower growers, all of their own hard cultivation of valuable flowers, home planted potted flowers, bonsai, etc., transported to the city. Potted flowers, bonsai, etc. transported to the Qingyang Palace, set up scaffolding tent, set up stalls, exhibition and sale. Legend has it that the birthday of the founder of Taoism, Li Laojun, is the fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, therefore, since the Tang Dynasty, the folk held an annual temple fair here. And because February in Chengdu is the season of sunny weather, pleasant spring, and blooming flowers, it is also rumored that February 15 is the birthday of the hundred flowers. Therefore, the Flower Festival is held here again in February every year.
4, Longquan Peach Blossom Festival
Time: Lunar February
Location: Longquan Mountain, Chengdu City
Introduction: Every year in the second month of the Lunar Calendar, it is the best time for the residents of Chengdu to go out and walk in the green. At this time, the peach blossoms on Longquanshan Mountain are in full bloom, as brilliant as red clouds, and the pear blossoms at the foot of the mountain are like white snow spreading over the earth. Together with a variety of other seasonal flowers, the entire Longquanshan Mountain dressed in spring, beautiful flowers. Colorful flowers, such as weaving visitors, so that the Peach Blossom Festival should be born. Peach blossom will be during the most distinctive project is the flower farmers to start the family hospitality station, visitors in the flower farmers in the home to drink tea and enjoy the scenery, recreation and leisure, but also a delicious rural home-style meals, eat is the real green food, have some fun.
5, hemp will be
Time: the lunar calendar March 15
Location: Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Jiuzhaigou County, Zaaru Temple
Introduction: hemp will be Zaaru Temple's religious ceremonies, but also Jiuzhaigou's most important festivals. Three days before the meeting, the whole temple lamas are concentrated in the temple courtyard to eat fasting and chanting, rehearsal program. On the day of the festival, Tibetans from Songpan, Ruoergai, Baozhaigou, Dalu, Tazang, Longkang and other places around Jiuzhaigou dress up and gather at Zaru Monastery to participate in the celebration, present hatha, and watch the Tibetan opera performance. Then scattered in groups of three to five on the banks of the Emerald River, pine forests, sitting on the ground, simple toast, **** narrative friendship. Young men and women are pairs, into the deep forest dating.
6, Master Zhang will
Time: the fourth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar
Location: Leshan City, Jiejiang County
Introduction: Master Zhang will be popular in the area of Jiejiang County. According to legend, the fourth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Zhang Fei. On that day every year, butchers in Jiejiang prepare offerings and go to Zhang Fei's temple to offer sacrifices and bow to him, praying for peace in the coming year and blessing for prosperous business.
7, turn the mountain will
Time: the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar
Location: Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Kangding City, running horse mountain
Introduction: According to legend, this day for the birth of Sakyamuni day, Tibetan customs in this month of religious activities are extremely frequent, the Buddhists think that in this month to do a good thing, chanting the Buddha a sound, can get 100,000 times the merit. Buddhist believers believe that in this month to do a good deed, praise the Buddha, can get 100,000 times the merit. Therefore, the Buddhist believers take the lead in inviting neighbors and friends, with Mani flag cloth, scripture streamers, holding Buddha beads and reciting the sutra "turn the mountain", the meaning of which is derived from the Tibetan Buddhist "turn the eight corners", the purpose of which is to pray for blessings and avoid disasters. After turning the mountain, Tibetans gathered on Happy Horse Mountain, singing Tibetan songs, Tibetan opera, jumping pots and pans, pitching tents, mountain ping people, very lively.
8. Tianpeng Peony Fair
Time: Qingming Festival
Location: Pengzhou, Chengdu
Introduction: Pengzhou City, located in the north of Chengdu, is known as Tianpeng in ancient times, and it is the peony cultivation base in Sichuan. Historically, it was known as one of the four major peony production bases in China together with Luoyang in Henan Province, Caozhou in Shandong Province and Huxian in Anhui Province. The poet Lu You once said, "Peony is the first in Luoyang in Central China, and the first in Tianpeng in Sichuan", indicating that peony cultivation in Pengzhou was already quite famous during the Tang and Song dynasties. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, local people have had the custom of gathering to appreciate peonies when they are in full bloom, and the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is designated as the Flower Survey Festival every year. In order to carry forward this folk tradition, Pengzhou City is scheduled to hold an annual peony festival around the Qingming Festival every year. During the Peony Festival, in addition to the exhibition and sale of valuable peony flowers and the tour of Danjing Mountain, cultural and recreational activities rich in local folklore, exhibition and sale of local specialties, etc. are also held.
9. Dujiangyan Water Release Festival
Time: Qingming Festival
Location: Dujiangyan, Chengdu City
Introduction: The Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project is the lifeline of the Chengdu Plain, so the water release before the spring plowing every year is regarded as a sacred festival by the local residents. Historically, a grand ceremony of water release was held on the Qingming Festival in the third month of the lunar calendar every year to wish for a good agricultural harvest that year. On that occasion, local officials would personally preside over the water release ceremony, and local people would also organize themselves to worship Li Bing and his son at the Erwang Temple, and hold the Erwang Temple Fair, also known as the Qingming Fair. In recent years, Dujiangyan Municipal Government has changed the folk tradition of Qingming Hui into a government-sponsored water release festival, in which water officials dressed in ancient costumes and ceremonial teams perform the whole process of the water release festival. There are folk songs and dances performed during this time, which attracts people.
10, Xinjin Dragon Boat Festival
Time: Dragon Boat Festival
Location: Xinjin County, Chengdu
Introduction: Dragon boat racing is one of the traditional customs of the people of southern China. Although Chengdu is north of the Yangtze River, it is also a land of water, so the history of dragon boat racing is also very long. Until the 60s of this century, Chengdu's dragon boat racing activities in the river section of the Jinjiang River by the Wangjiang Park. However, after the 1970s, the river in the city was no longer suitable for dragon boat races. Therefore, the South River in Xinjin County, Chengdu, with its superior geographical conditions, will be the dragon boat event more and more red-hot. In addition to the traditional programs such as dragon boat racing, dragon boat modeling show, colorful boat night tour.
11, Wang Congzhi race song will
Time: May 15 of the Lunar Calendar
Location: PI District, Chengdu City
Introduction: PI County was the capital of the ancient Shu State, the legend says that the emperor after the passing of the throne, return to the hidden mountains, into the azalea bird, every February when the azalea blossoms flew back to Chengdu over the plains day and night crowing to urge farmers to hurry up spring plowing, straight to the mouth to call! Hurry up spring plowing, straight to the mouth spitting blood, stained red azaleas on the mountain, Shu people think it is the soul of the emperor back, this is the folklore "azalea cries blood" story. PI county city is thus known as "azalea city". Later generations to commemorate the emperor, in the annual lunar calendar before and after the 15th of May to do up azalea city race song will be, the race song will be the venue selected in the Wang Congzhi, to participate in the race song will be the singer is the local native farmers to sing songs, singing songs in Sichuan is also known as the "roar of the song", most of the self-singing, with a strong sense of the vernacular.
12, Huanglong Temple Fair
Time: Lunar June 12 to June 15
Location: Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Songpan County, Huanglong Temple
Introduction: Lunar June 15 is said to be the Huanglong real monks cultivation immortal day, are to be held in a grand temple fair, the nearby residents to bring the cooking utensils, tents Came to catch the fair. Rally held on the Tibetan opera performances, folk songs, young strong men have to wrestling, archery and other activities. June 15 is the climax of the festival, people singing and dancing with laughter, all night long.
13, burning lamp festival
Time: the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar
Location: the Tibetan villages and monasteries
Introduction: Burning Lamp Festival is to commemorate the Buddhist reformer, the founder of Gelugpa masters of the death of the activities held. On this day all belong to the sect of the various sizes of temples, villages and villages pastoralists, both inside and outside the temple on the altar, the home of the scripture hall, light ghee lamps, day and night. People dressed in festive costumes, gathered in front of the temple for the Buddhist masters and reciting prayers, chanting "six words of truth", to the Buddha's deity prayers, kowtow, the men of the villages and villages mounted on horseback, with the cypress incense sticks that have long been prepared, to the village next to the pagoda in front of the chanting of prayers, held a grand simmering ceremony, and threw to the sky with the print of the lion, tiger, dragon, peng "Dragon", "Dragon", "Peng", "Dragon", "Dragon", "Dragon", "Dragon", and "Dragon", and "Dragon". The "Longda" (wind horse) printed with lions, tigers, dragons and pengs is thrown into the sky. Young men and women dance the potshuang dance, and old people sit on the bleachers while drinking and chatting. There are also able to speak and sing good entertainers rap Tibetan folk poetry, Gesar King biography, until the full moon rises, people only help the old and young, singing and reciting the "six words of truth" to go home happily.
14, Xindu osmanthus
Time: Mid-Autumn Festival
Location: Xindu District, Chengdu
Introduction: Xindu osmanthus lake osmanthus fragrance, but also full of the lake is full of lotus in full bloom, the value of the good time and beautiful, crowded with tourists. Thus, the Xindu County Government decided to organize the annual Mid-Autumn Festival before and after the osmanthus will be. During the osmanthus, in addition to inviting people to visit the garden to enjoy the osmanthus, look up the words of Shengan, visit the cultural relics, calligraphy and painting exhibitions and other cultural activities, the city also held at the same time the exchange of materials, the exhibition and sale of local snacks, organized by the rich characteristics of the square place of singing, dancing, theater performances.
15, Cai Hou will
Time: the eighth month of the lunar calendar
Location: Leshan City, Jiejiang County
Introduction: Jiejiang is a famous paper township, there are a lot of paper workshops. The majority of papermaking artists worship Cai Lun as the ancestor, and every family enshrines the statue of Cai Lun. In August of the lunar calendar when the new bamboo is not composted, the old material has been used up in the leisure period, the artists will be funded to do Caihou will be. At that time, Caihou temple lights and colors, singing Sichuan opera, acting puppet, very lively. Artists or kill pigs and sheep, family celebration; or carry gifts, visit friends and relatives. Some parts of this custom have been passed down.
16, Pengzu Longevity Festival
Time: Every five years (September of the Lunar Calendar)
Location: Pengshan Mountain District, Meishan City
Introduction: Pengzu Longevity Festival is organized by Pengshan County in order to tap into the richness of the longevity culture, carry forward the culture of longevity of Pengzou and the Chinese people's respect for the elderly filial piety of the honorable traditions of the parents, to create a brand of longevity city of Penshan, enhance the Pengshan Longevity city brand, enhance the popularity of Pengshan festival. Since 1991, one Longevity Culture Festival has been held every five years. The success of the Longevity Culture Festival has not only enhanced the popularity of Pengshan, but also attracted many foreign investors to invest in Pengshan. Among them, the full force of the group, the southwest wind group, Dalian Hualiang Group and many other well-known enterprises at home and abroad have joined, so that the total economic output of Pengshan County continues to grow.
17, Qiang New Year Festival (Qiang calendar year)
Time: the first day of October on the lunar calendar
Location: Qiang villages
Introduction: Qiang New Year Festival is the autumn after thanking the gods of the sky to give the agricultural activities of the grain abundance, according to the custom of the Qiang, Qiang New Year, but also wishing to honor the gods, to worship the god of the sky, the god of the mountain and the land owners (Zhai Shen). The whole village should have a reunion dinner, drink sprinkles, and leave as happy as possible. During the festival, friends and relatives can congratulate each other and welcome each other.
18, Ruxi Festival
Time: the seventh day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar
Location: Muzhe Autonomous County
Introduction: Ruxi Festival is an ancient festival of the Tibetan people in Muzhe Autonomous County in Liangshan, Sichuan Province, and is held every year on the seventh day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. On the night before New Year's Eve, according to the traditional custom, each family prepares a beautiful meal for cats and dogs, i.e. meat and rice. If the cat or dog eats the meat first, then the meal, then the omen of good weather in the coming year. At night the villages and cottages of the Tibetan people, are dressed in colorful national costumes, gathered in the spacious square of the cottage, everyone around the bonfire, singing songs, jumping "potshuang", and barley wine, ghee tea to cheer. New Year's Day 15, after breakfast, men, women and children are cleaned up, with food and meat, in groups, to the scheduled place to turn the mountain.
19, Tibetan New Year
Time: January 1, Tibetan calendar
Location: the Tibetan walled village
Introduction: Tibetan New Year is according to the Tibetan calendar projected Tibetan people's New Year's festival, with the Han Chinese Lunar New Year is roughly the same. Tibetan January 1, the first sound of the rooster, the housewife will get up back "new water" (the legend is the heavenly realm of the Buddhas to give mankind to get rid of all kinds of diseases of the auspicious nectar), who can drink on the New Year's new water, it will not be infected with all kinds of diseases in the new year, health and longevity; the whole village of men go together to the village of the gods on the mountain to pray for the simmering of the sang. During the daytime on the first day of the year, each village will hold a very grand horse race or entertainment performance. Since the second day, people began to congratulate each other on New Year's Eve, invite guests to visit, and make preparations to welcome the dragon lantern lion. When the lion arrives at the door of a house, every house is decorated with lanterns and a gift - a few bottles of wine or a cigarette.
20, the Qiang Ware Foot Festival
Location: Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Introduction: "Qiang Ware Foot Festival", known in Chinese as the "Songs Festival" or "Lead Songs Festival".
Introduction: "Qiang Val Ozuzu Festival", known in Chinese as "Song Fest" or "Song Leader Festival" or "Song Leader Festival", is a traditional customary activity held by Qiang women to worship the goddess of song and dance, Salang Sister, in the sky, which is also known as the "Women's Festival" by the local people as it is mainly presided over and organized by women. "On May 20, 2006, the Qiang Val-O-Foot Festival declared by the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
21, Zigong Lantern Festival
Location: Zigong City
Introduction: Zigong Lantern Festival is a kind of folk culture with historical tradition. As early as the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Lantern Festival has been recorded in writing. Later, it developed into an indispensable event for people to send their ideals and pray for a good year once a year. "The Son of Heaven and all the people are happy together" refers to the ancient lantern festival scene. Zigong is located in Sichuan Province, the city of lights in the South China where the content, which was molded in the Qing and Ming Dynasties, and gradually developed into a relatively fixed connotation, and in a specific period of time and have a certain line of inheritance of large-scale folk cultural activities.
22, Emeishan Snow Festival
Time: January to March each year
Location: Emeishan City
Introduction: Emeishan snowy winter, and the snow is soft and suitable for skiing. In order to develop winter tourism, the first Sichuan Emeishan Ice and Snow Festival was held in 1998. The festival activities include opening ceremony, hot spring concert, masquerade ball, winter scenery photography contest, snow and ice sculpture competition, alpine skiing performance, children's snow flying saucer, snow garden, food week, closing ceremony and so on.
23, Shixianghu Tulip Festival
Time: March every year
Location: Shixianghu, Pujiang County, Chengdu City
Introduction: The annual Tulip Festival is the most important festival in Shixianghu. Symbolizing nobility and happiness, tulip is the national flower of Holland, it is colorful and rich, the flower is exquisite and lovely, from budding to full bloom, showing different gestures of beauty, so some people praise tulip is the "queen of flowers". The introduction of tulips not only makes the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, but also brings the European spring around.
24, Waya Mountain Azalea Festival
Time: April to June every year
Location: Hongya County, Meishan City, Waya Mountain National Forest Park
Introduction: Waya Mountain azalea is very rich in resources, 600,000 acres of azalea forests have more than 40 varieties, for the development of tourism in April 2001, held the The first Sichuan Waya Mountain Azalea Festival. The festival activities include opening ceremony, bonfire party, azalea viewing, photography exhibition, painting contest, poetry and prose essay contest, and closing ceremony.
25, Leshan International Tourism Buddha Festival
Time: September every year
Location: Leshan City
Introduction: Leshan Buddha for the mountain excavation of the Maitreya seat, 71 meters high, 8.5 meters wide back of the foot, the Tang Dynasty, the opening of the famous monk Hai Tong, built for the world's first Buddha, for the development of the tourism industry, organized in 1994, and the development of the tourism sector. Tourism, in 1994 organized the first Sichuan Leshan International Tourism Buddha Festival, the fourth in 2002 with the first China Emeishan a Leshan Buddha World Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection Festival held at the same time. Festivals include opening ceremonies, cultural evenings, cultural parades, tourist commodities fairs, tourist food week activities, tourism publicity and promotional meetings, open to the outside world symposium, Buddhist activities.
26, Miyaro Red Leaf Festival
Time: October every year
Location: Miyaro Red Leaf Scenic Area
Introduction: Every year in mid-October, the Li County held the Miyaro Red Leaf Festival, full of red leaves in the mountains to the Miyaro decorated into a fiery world of fairy-tale-like beauty so that tourists should be overwhelmed. The fairy tale-like scenery overwhelmed tourists. Local Tibetan and Qiang compatriots singing and dancing to welcome visitors from afar, out of the sweet butter tea, felt, barley wine dedicated to the tourists around. Its simple ethnic customs and styles, ancient and majestic stone fortresses, as well as the Qiang sheepskin coats, Tibetan coral belt, Tibetan and Qiang very distinctive catering and ethnic architecture, gorgeous costumes, strong and joyful "potshuang" dance, so that tourists enjoy Tibetan and Qiang ethnic culture and flavor. A series of religious and folk activities such as temple fairs, hunting and folk dances will be held. Wild vegetables, spices and other mountain specialties are in abundance. Let the tourists enjoy the beautiful scenery at the same time can also experience the fun of shopping.
27, Waya Mountain Ice Festival
Time: December to March
Location: Hongya County, Meishan City, Waya Mountain National Forest Park
Introduction: Waya Mountain and Emei Mountain is known as the "two best of the best in Sichuan", is located in the western edge of the Sichuan basin Hongya. Hongya County along the western edge of the Sichuan Basin, the park covers an area of 1.04 million acres, Waya Mountain in winter is the best place to see the forest ice and snow in the South. From mid-November to early May of the next year, Waya Mountain is covered with thick snow, turning into a world of silver, ice hanging on the mountain, snow hanging, freezing fog, freezing snow, icicles, ice waterfalls can be seen everywhere, two large ski slopes next to the top of the mountain Xiang'er Resort can be used for a variety of activities, sledding, snow flying saucer, skiing, shooting and other snow projects is the ideal choice for tourists. Waya Mountain's annual Ice and Snow Festival has become an important branch of the South China Ice and Snow Festival, and the white world of Waya Mountain welcomes visitors.
28, Longchi Ice and Snow Festival
Time: December to March
Location: Dujiangyan, Chengdu
Introduction: Longchi Ice and Snow Festival was started in 1995, and is one of the most important large-scale tourism activities in Dujiangyan. Longchi Ice and Snow Festival starts from December every year, and ends in March the following year, which lasts three months, spanning Christmas, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and "March 8" Women's Day, providing a wonderful place for people living in the south of the country to have a leisure vacation in winter and enjoy the snow and skiing.