1. Qingdao Sugar Ball Club: Qingdao Sugar Ball Club is held in Haiyun Temple, Qingdao. It basically starts around the 16th day of the first lunar month and lasts for one week.
The main venue is Haiyun Temple, Haiyun Plaza, Jiahe Road Street Center Garden as the center and surrounding roads radiating from it.
Haiyun Nunnery is located in the North District of Qingdao City, also known as "Dashi's Nunnery". It was built in the late Ming Dynasty. The main hall is dedicated to Guanyin, and is commonly known as "Old Mother Temple". After Qingdao was established as a city, the street in front of the temple was called Haiyun Street.
It is a commercial center located in all directions.
There are workers and fishermen in the Sifang area. Haiyun Temple worships many gods, including Guanyin, Guan Gong, Dragon King, Bigan, Luban, Taishang Laojun, etc.
In the old days, incense was very popular, and most of the worshipers were fishermen. Therefore, the 16th day of the first lunar month, which is the first high tide day in the new year, is designated as the temple fair day.
At every temple fair, the incense becomes more prosperous. At the same time, there are many entertainment activities such as singing, donkey racing, stilt walking, land boat racing in front of and behind the temple. Food and toy vendors also gather here one after another, including selling sugar balls (called "candied haws" in Beijing).
There are especially many sugar balls made from hawthorn, soft dates, yam, tangerine, etc., and they are on the market one after another, selling and competing, each with its own characteristics.
After a long time, the masses began to call the Haiyun Temple Fair the Sugar Ball Club.
2. Weifang Kite Festival: The Weifang Kite Festival (Convention) is held in Weifang on the third Saturday of April every year. More than 30 countries and regions from all over the world participate. It is the first in my country to be named "International" and recognized by the international community. Recognized large-scale local festivals.
Since 1984, it has been successfully held for thirty-three times. The model of "kite stringing, cultural and sports setting, economic and trade singing" created by it has been widely used for reference across the country.
Weifang, known as "Weixian" in ancient times, is also known as "Kite City". Its specialty products include kites, New Year pictures, etc., which are well-known at home and abroad.
Weixian has been a famous city in Beihai since ancient times, with prosperous literary style, consecutive top rankings and prosperous economy.
During the Qianlong period, there was a saying that "Suzhou in the south and Weixian in the north". The origin of Weifang kites can be traced back to the first "Wooden Kite" made by the great thinker Mo Zhai of the State of Lu. It has a history of more than 2,000 years.
, but it was in the Ming Dynasty that it really began to flourish and go among the people.
By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, folk artists specializing in kite making began to appear in Weifang.
Along the Bailang River in Weixian County, there are many kite artists making kites. They are novel and beautiful, take off high and stable, and are famous far and wide.
There are private or government-organized kite competitions every year, and many kite vendors and kite artists from other places also come here.
This is the prototype of the Weifang Kite Competition that originated from the Bailang River Fair in Weifang City.
3. Tianheng Sea Festival: Tianheng Sea Festival is mainly a festival celebrated by fishermen. It originated from the local traditional folk activities in Zhougezhuang Village, Tianheng Town, Shandong Province.
It has a history of more than 500 years.
Through careful planning, packaging and promotion by the local government, this ancient festival has developed into a well-known folk festival brand in Shandong and even the country. It is also a carnival that fascinates modern people, attracting countless Chinese and foreign tourists and folk customs from all over China every year.
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The day before the seaside sacrifice, the fishermen cleaned up the Dragon King Temple on the seaside, hung red lanterns, placed incense burners, sacrifice tables, pasted couplets, and wore red colors.
At the same time, a pine and cypress dragon gate was built on the beach in front of the Dragon King Temple, a plaque was hung on it, lanterns were hung, and red couplets were posted.
The owners of each boat were busy driving the colorful flag hunting fishing boats to the bay in front of the village. The bows of the boats faced the sea, arranged in a straight line, arranged the fishing gear and nets neatly, and then anchored and waited for the official sea sacrifice ceremony to be held the next day.
On the day of the sea offering ceremony, fishermen began to place offerings in boats on the beach in front of the Dragon King Temple.
Bundles of "standing tassels" several meters high tied with bamboo poles stand in the wind. Tables are filled with dough-shaped holy insects, longevity peaches, fish, various candies, snacks, etc. The red-lacquered low table in front of the table is filled with
The black-haired boars raised their heads forward, and the big red roosters were full of energy.
The fishermen arranged the yellow paper to be burned, set up the incense burner, and raised thousands of red firecrackers into the sky.
4. Tai'an Dongyue Temple Fair: The Taiyue Temple Fair began in the late Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is an enduring Chinese folk culture event that integrates religion, folk customs, folk art and business activities.
Taidongyue Mount Tai is the first of the five mountains and is a sacred mountain where Buddhism and Taoism coexist.
The Dai Temple at the foot of Mount Tai worships the God of Mount Tai - Emperor Dongyue.
Legend has it that the 28th day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Mount Tai, and many emperors in the past dynasties held consecration ceremonies at Dai Temple on this day.
The emperor's celebrations, Buddhist and Taoist religious activities, and people's pilgrimage activities formed the Dongyue Temple Fair in the Dai Temple area, with trade activities and entertainment activities as the main content.
During the Republic of China, during the annual temple fairs, devotees came all the way to the mountains to offer incense. Residents in the mountains mostly sold incense wax paper, and the business was booming.
There are many beggars along the way.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, temple fairs were transformed into material exchange conferences and were interrupted during the "Cultural Revolution".
In 1986, Tai'an City resumed the Taishan Temple Fair, and the location was changed to Taishan Huanshan Road, with Hongmen and Queen Mother Pond as the center.
The new temple fair retains some of the contents of the traditional temple fair, but also enriches new content and new features. It integrates tourism, entertainment, eating, entertainment, economics and trade, and its scale and influence are expanding year by year.