2. Xunxian Ancient Temple Fair, Xunxian's annual "First Month Temple Fair" is well known. It is a living fossil of the folk culture in the Central Plains and a microcosm of the original ecological culture. After visiting the temple fair, a German folklore scholar called it "China People's Carnival". In 2004, the first month ancient temple fair in Xunxian County was included in the pilot project of national folk culture protection in China; In 2007, "Ancient Temple Fair in Xunxian County" and "Folk Shehuo in Xunxian County" were listed in the intangible cultural heritage list of Henan Province, and were also rated as folk classics in Henan Province.
February 2nd is "Dragon Head-raising Festival" or "Dragon Festival". On this day, women in rural areas of Henan generally don't move scissors or do needlework, for fear of cutting off the dragon's body with a knife. On this festival, people go to the fields to pick wild vegetables, make jiaozi, fry pancakes, fry soybeans, fry bacon and steam jujube buns to improve their lives.
4. Begging for Qiao Festival, the custom of begging for Qiao in Xinxiang, Henan Province is that every year on the evening of the sixth day of the seventh lunar month, seven local unmarried girls form a group, each of whom changes her face and prepares offerings for the Weaver Girl.
5. Ghost Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, is the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as "Ghost Festival". Farmers in the Central Plains also call this day "Cow Festival", and there are many activities to sacrifice cows on this day.
6, offering sacrifices to the stove, the 23 rd day of the twelfth lunar month, is the "Festival of Offering Sacrifices to the Kitchen". The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in Henan Province, the first round of firecrackers was set off in urban and rural areas of the Central Plains. City residents are busy buying sesame candy, fire and other food for offering sacrifices to stoves. In Henan, the typical food for offering sacrifices to stoves should be the first stove candy. Kitchen candy is a kind of maltose that sticks to the mouth and teeth. The reason for offering sugar to the stove is to stick the mouth of the stove owner. In Henan, people regard the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves as a reunion festival after the Mid-Autumn Festival.
7. The sixth day of June is Zhou Mian Festival, which is called "Zhou Mian Festival", "Looking at Summer Festival" and "Daughter's Day" by the people. Every household in the countryside should take the married girl home from June/kloc-0 to June 6, and then send her back to her husband's house after the reception. As the saying goes, "June 6, please ask your aunt." "On June 6th, I hung up my hoe and called my aunt and sister-in-law."