What are the traditional festivals and customs in Liaoning? Let's take a look at the sharing in Xiaobian!
1. Spring Festival
Time: the first day of the first lunar month
Introduction: In rural Liaoning, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, every household begins to prepare for the New Year, making rice cakes and steaming sticky bean bags. Many people will also kill pigs and treat them, invite their neighbors, relatives and friends to have a banquet, and after eating and drinking well, the enthusiastic host will also give the stuffed blood sausage to the guests to take home. Children will try their best to help at home these days, but married daughters can't spend the New Year at their parents' home, otherwise this year will be bad for their parents' brothers. That's what the so-called "Don't look at the bride's lamp" means on New Year's Eve. Of course, this custom with feudal superstition has been gradually forgotten with the progress of society and the changes of the times. Many people in Liaoning light longevity lanterns on New Year's Eve, which are lit all night. On New Year's Eve until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, every family hangs red lanterns, lights lanterns on New Year's Eve, and lights should be lit overnight, which means longevity and longevity.
2. Lantern Festival
Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month
Introduction: Around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there are two important programs in the traditional folk customs of Manchu people: "Worship the Taiping Drum" and "Catch the Son". Taiping drum was called wax drum in ancient times, and the ceremony of worshipping Taiping drum originated from the worship of sun god in Shamanism. The Taiping drum in western Liaoning is octagonal with iron wire as the frame. It is about 1.7 to 1 meters in diameter, covered with leather paper, decorated with colorful paintings, and has a handle running through more than a dozen iron rings, which makes a rushing sound when hitting vibration. It is also a street scene during the festival that worshippers of Taiping Drum parade in the market. "Catch the child" is a boudoir game. "Zier" is to dye the hoof bones of sheep or pigs in variegated colors, which are used by young women to throw, pick up or bear, which is called "catching". The game is usually played on the indoor kang. The "warehouse filling day" on the 25th of the first month is also called "Tiancang Day" in western Liaoning. Manchu people "fill the warehouse" and have the custom of putting cooked sticky sorghum rice in the granary. They also put ponies and hoes tied with straw poles into the rice basin to express their desire to work hard and have plenty of food and clothing.
3. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Time: around April 5th, Gregorian calendar
Introduction: Folding willows in Qingming Festival is a custom that has lasted for thousands of years. There is a folk proverb that "Don't wear willows in Qingming Festival, and the beauty will turn into a head". There is also a record of "inserting willows in front of the door" in Yingkou County Records of Liaoning Province. In the old days, people in southern Liaoning got up early on Qingming Day, and people folded willow branches into circles and put them on children's heads. Women use peeled wicker to weave a string of small and exquisite rings to wear at the hair edge; Some large willow branches are coiled into rings and inserted in eaves, doors, windows and water tanks to pray for peace and prosperity. There is also the custom of planting trees in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The Gaiping County Chronicle, which was compiled during the Republic of China, states: "Since the era of the Republic of China, Tomb-Sweeping Day was taken as Arbor Day, so that students from all schools planted trees in the next place, that is, the tree was marked as so-and-so and it was also flourishing. In a few years, the Woods are shaded and the trees are lush. This move is not only to ease the minds of students, but also to cultivate forestry and plant trees to cultivate good children. This statement can be used. " On that day, every household planted trees and flowers in the vacant land in front of and behind the house, and institutions and schools also collectively planted trees. This custom continued until the birth of the new Arbor Day after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
4. Dragon Boat Festival
Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month
Introduction: The way to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Fuxin and Montenegro, Liaoning Province is very special, and the tradition of "fighting against stones" has been preserved so far. "Fighting against stones" is a traditional stone-fighting activity in which two villages throw stones at each other for fun. It was originally an entertainment activity within the village, and later it gradually developed into an important custom of people's Dragon Boat Festival. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, twelve or thirteen-year-old children from two villages stood on the hill and shouted at each other and threw stones at each other. After a while, in the morning, older elders came forward to call for battle, and continued to throw stones at each other while calling for battle; At around 11: 11, all parties went home for lunch. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the "Fighting against Stones" officially began. At this time, farmers stopped planting, small traders stopped selling goods, and every household closed the doors and windows and ran to the hills to watch the fun. Everyone was excited. The two sides threw stones at each other, and on this day, people who were injured or disabled by stones could not report to the official, claim compensation or resent.
5. Winter Solstice
Time: February 21, 22 or 23 every year
Introduction: There is a custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors on the winter solstice in Liaoning, and there are still some places celebrating the festival on the winter solstice. At the same time of offering sacrifices to ancestors, some places also offer sacrifices to gods and land gods, and worship the gods in order to pray for good weather, family and prosperity in the coming year. The winter solstice in Liaoning is also characterized by "three phases", that is, the earthworm knot. It is said that the earthworm is a creature with yin bending and yang stretching. At this time, although the yang has grown, the yin is still very strong, and the earthworm in the soil is still curled up. Elk horn solution, elk and deer belong to the same family, but yin and yang are different. The ancients thought that the elk horn was facing the afterlife, so it was yin, while the winter solstice was born in the sun, and the elk felt the yin gradually retreat and solved the horn; Water springs move, because the yang is born, so the spring water in the mountains can flow and be warm at this time
6. Fireworks and firecrackers in Dalian welcome the spring
Time: the second day of the first lunar month
Location: Xinghai Square in Dalian
Introduction: Dalian Fireworks and Firecrackers Welcome the Spring Festival, which is held in Xinghai Square in Dalian on the second day of the first lunar month every year. The festival activities are rich and colorful, including lantern ice sculpture exhibition, fireworks display, flavor food tasting, flower and stone exhibition, interesting amusement and unique skills, acrobatics and folk arts, etc. Visitors can also set off fireworks and firecrackers by themselves, and other recreational activities such as famous snacks street, handicraft street, tourism and commerce are welcomed by Chinese and foreign guests and Dalian citizens.
7. Haicheng stilt yangko
Time: January to February of the lunar calendar
Location: Haicheng
Introduction: Haicheng stilt yangko belongs to the drum stilt, which is a branch of southern Liaoning stilt. After more than 311 years of continuous evolution, it has formed a folk art integrating dance, acrobatics, music and drama. Folk artists in Haicheng improved the artistic forms and skills of traditional stilts, moved traditional folk dramas from China to stilts, and gradually formed a unique performance style of violent, cheerful, provocative and rough in Haicheng stilts.
8. Chaoyang Phoenix Mountain Culture and Art Festival
Time: July 31th, Lunar New Year
Location: Chaoyang City
Introduction: The festival is rich in content and innovative in form. There are grand comprehensive cultural performances, elegant exhibitions of paintings, calligraphy and photography, intense and wonderful qigong, martial arts and breathtaking performances of impurities, as well as popular operas and Northeast yangko dance performances. The business and marketing negotiation activities of internal introduction and external communication, which are a gathering of talents, are unprecedented, and Buddhist activities are a grand event for local Buddhist disciples. During the whole art festival and temple fair, the Phoenix Mountain Scenic Area brought together artistic celebrities, monks, masters, literati and ordinary people from all over the world, and gathered various forms of festivals of Yangchun Baixue and Xialiba people. There are more than 11,111 tourists every day, and the perfect facilities and rich entertainment content in the scenic area provide a comfortable amusement environment for tourists, which makes people linger.
9. Imperial Temple Fair
Time: during the Spring Festival, May Day and Eleventh holidays every year
Location: No.216, huang temple Road, Heping District, Shenyang
Introduction: Shenyang Imperial Temple Fair is one of the four major temple fairs in China, which are as famous as Beijing ditan temple fair, Shanghai Chenghuang Temple Fair and Nanjing Confucius Temple Fair. The Imperial Temple Fair will be held during the Spring Festival, "May Day", "Eleventh Day" and other holidays. The temple fair is crowded with people and very lively. The most popular visitors are all kinds of unique performances and local flavor foods. During the temple fair, famous snacks from all over the country will gather here, so that visitors to the temple fair can feast their eyes. As the highlight of the temple fair, the stage performances include duet, unique skills, magic, instrumental music and so on, which are popular among the masses. In addition to stage performances, folk programs such as Manchu dance, "Emperor's outing", "Gege wedding", Xibe dance and "Wedding in a sedan chair" will also attract many people's attention. In addition, there are many folk crafts on display at the temple fair, such as tanghua, Sugar Blower, Sugar Squeezer, Gourd Carving, Egg Carving, On-the-spot Painting and Handicraft Exhibition.
11. Anshan Qian Shan International Tourism Festival
Time: April to May every year
Location: Anshan City
Introduction: Qian Shan is a famous tourist attraction in Liaoning Province. It not only has a unique natural tourist landscape, but also has always been a concentrated place of Liaodong Buddhism and Taoism culture, with rich historical and cultural landscape, with a thousand-day embroidered lotus platform and "Thousand-Mountain Maitreya Buddha". Anshan Qian Shan International Tourism Festival is a local festival integrating tourism, economic and trade negotiations, cultural performances, sports events and leisure shopping, which has won the favor of tourists at home and abroad. Through the holding of this large-scale festival, the great achievements made in Anshan since the reform and opening up, the local characteristics and urban personality of Anshan are fully displayed, and the images of Qian Shan, the king of jade Buddha, the hometown of hot springs, the city of Baoyu and the capital of steel are displayed to the world. During the festival, hundreds of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists gathered in Anshan, which promoted the development of holiday economy, enriched the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, and promoted the development of the tertiary industry in Anshan.
11. Yalu River Mouth International Wetland Bird Watching Festival
Time: April every year
Location: Dandong Yalu River Mouth Wetland
Introduction: It is held in Dandong Yalu River Mouth Wetland every April, aiming at calling for the protection and construction of Yalu River Mouth Wetland National Nature Reserve, and making contributions to wetland protection and ecological improvement. During the Bird Watching Festival in April and May every year, tens of thousands of migratory birds gather in the wetland bird watching garden at the mouth of Yalu River in Donggang, and you can see the spectacular scene of 1.2 million migratory birds soaring in Qi Fei. These migratory birds spend the winter in New Zealand and Australia, and will fly to West Burleigh to breed their offspring. During the migration, we will stop at the mouth of Yalu River in Donggang to replenish food and restore physical strength. During the festival, a large number of domestic and foreign tourists, birdwatchers and photographers will come for sightseeing and photography creation.
12, Longwangtang Reservoir Cherry Blossom Festival
Time: April every year
Location: Longwanghe, Guanfang Village, Longwangtang Street, Lushunkou District, Dalian
Introduction: Every year in the middle and late April, the cherry blossoms in Longwangtang Reservoir are competing to open, which indicates the coming of spring in Dalian. Longwangtang Reservoir is located in the north of Guanfang Village, Longtang Town, Lushun. The cherry blossoms in Longwangtang are very famous. It is rare to plant such a large area of cherry blossoms in such a dense way in China. It is said that one of the cherry trees was once verified by Guo Moruo as the largest in China, and there is also a rare magnolia flower in the garden. The common magnolia in the north has only six oval petals as white as jade, which are single flowers. This magnolia flower has 18 to 21 petals, which are like stretched chrysanthemum filaments. The front is milky white, and there is a lavender fine line in the center of the back, which is very strange.
13. Jinzhou Antique Festival
Time: April every year
Location: Jinzhou Antique City
Introduction: The first China Jinzhou Antique Festival was held in 2116 and will be held once a year thereafter. The city was built in 2111, and now it is the largest professional antique collection trading market in Northeast China. During the Antique Festival, exhibitors from more than a dozen provinces, including Beijing, Fujian, Inner Mongolia and Liaoning, as well as famous antique associations in Beijing, Tianjin and Zhejiang, came to the exhibition. The participating projects are generally antiques, calligraphy and painting, furniture, cultural relics, various handicrafts, jade carvings, fish fossils and miscellaneous items. In order to set off the festive atmosphere, in addition to the exhibition of antiques, there are also activities such as antique art trading, antique knowledge lectures, economic and trade project promotion and negotiation, and Jinzhou folk culture display, which are well received by antique lovers and the general public.
14. Peach Blossom Festival in Dandong Estuary
Time: April to May every year
Location: Dandong Estuary Scenic Area
Introduction: It is held in Dandong Estuary Scenic Area from late April to early May every year. The Yalu River is rippling with blue waves, and the 11,111-mu peach garden is covered with pink. At the Peach Blossom Festival, you can enjoy both the peach forest and the sea of flowers and experience the Korean customs. During the festival, there are activities such as Dandong Tourism Resources Exhibition, Peach Blossom Photography Exhibition and Photography Competition.
15, Benxi Yanjing Mountain Flower Festival
Time: April every year
Location: Benxi Manchu Autonomous County
Introduction: From late April to mid-May every year, Benxi Manchu Autonomous County will hold a mountain flower festival with the theme of "going into the countryside to enjoy mountain flowers", promote spring tourist routes, and hold a series of cultural performances in Tianlong Cavern.
16. Dalian Sophora Appreciation Club
Time: May every year
Location: Dalian
Introduction: In 1992, the National Tourism Administration officially designated the "Dalian Sophora Appreciation Club" as a national local tourism festival. Dalian is a city surrounded by Sophora japonica, and is known as the "Oriental Sophora City". Every year in late May, at the turn of spring and summer, Sophora japonica is in full bloom, with green patches, white flowers and overflowing fragrance, and the whole Dalian is picturesque. Taking advantage of this natural resource, the Dalian Municipal Government began to hold the Huai-Hui Festival in 1989, and gradually turned it into a grand tourism festival integrating tourism, culture and sports. The outstanding characteristics of the Huai-Hua Club are: firstly, it is international, and many countries and regions participate, such as Japan, South Korea, Russia and the Philippines. Second, the participation of the masses is strong, and motorcycle parades and folk art exhibitions also attract many citizens and tourists to participate; Third, the cultural content is high. Cultural activities such as square cultural activities, Huai Culture and Art Week, Oriental Huai City Music Song and Dance Concert, painting and calligraphy art exhibitions and pottery exhibitions have all increased the cultural content of the festival.
17, Dalian International Marathon
Time: May every year
Location: Dalian
Introduction: Track and field, like football, is a favorite sport of Dalian people. Dalian is a famous "hometown of track and field" in China, where many world champions were born. Dalian International Marathon has attracted more and more foreign marathon runners and become a representative project of sports tourism in Dalian. In 1997, approved by IAAF, Dalian International Marathon has officially become an international competition.
18, Dalian International Beach Culture Festival
Time: June to August every year
Location: Dalian
Introduction: Dalian International Beach Culture Festival, sponsored by Dalian Municipal People's Government, has been held once a year since 2114. It is an international tourism festival that best reflects the "3S" characteristics of Dalian in summer (sunshine, sea and beach) and has unique coastal cultural characteristics.
19, North Putuo Mountain Mulberry Picking Festival
Time: June every year
Location: North Putuo Mountain
Introduction: North Putuo Mountain successfully held a folk cultural activity with the characteristics of North Putuo Mountain by using special resources, so as to show the tourism image and products, and to establish a regional tourism economic cooperation network, further tourism exchanges and cooperation, and realize resources * *.
21. Panjin International Wetland Tourism Festival
Time: July to September every year
Location: Panjin City
Introduction: China Panjin International Wetland Tourism Festival is an international tourism festival sponsored by Liaoning Provincial Tourism Bureau and Panjin Municipal People's Government, and hosted by Panjin Tourism Bureau. It is held in Panjin City from July to September every year. Over the years, the "Wetland Tourism Festival" has demonstrated the fascinating charm of the "Northern Wetland Capital" green reed red beach to domestic and foreign tourists through a variety of activities.
21. Korea Week in Shenyang
Time: July every year
Location: Shenyang
Introduction: Korea Week in Shenyang, China every year.