Sichuan: "Qiang Year Festival"
The Qiang nationality is one of the ethnic groups with a long history in the big family of the Chinese nation. Now they mainly live in Maoxian, Wenchuan, Lixian and parts of Songpan in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
the Qiang festival is celebrated on the first day of October of the lunar calendar every year, usually for 3-5 days, and in some villages it lasts until the tenth day of October. According to the folk custom, it is also necessary to worship God during the Year of the Qiang, and to worship the gods of heaven, mountains and site owners (village gods). People in the whole village will have a reunion dinner, drink Zasa and dance Sharon until they are all happy. The whole ceremony was presided over by "Xu", while Zajiu was opened by the venerable elders in the village. During the festival, relatives and friends can congratulate each other and welcome each other.
Sichuan Hakka Spring Festival custom
The constant migration of Hakkas makes them more attached to their native land. The nostalgia for the landscapes and customs of their hometown has enabled them to unite closely and overcome difficulties and hardships again and again, and traditional customs have become a strong link between Hakka people. Among the Hakka people in Sichuan, the traditional customs and habits of Hakka people have been maintained for two or three hundred years.
Hakka people attach great importance to the Lunar New Year. Every household hangs colored lights, sticks door gods, and sticks auspicious words on granaries and poultry and livestock pens to show the good harvest in the coming year. Conditional Hakka towns and villages should play lantern dances from January to February. The types of lanterns are dragon lanterns, lion lanterns and clam lanterns, which are the custom of colored lanterns handed down by Hakka people in their original places. In addition, there will be a large-scale celebration-dragon dance, which can be divided into colorful dragons, fire dragons, water dragons, disjointed dragons and Shangchuan dragons. Among them, Shangchuanlong is the most distinctive. Shangchuan Dragon was brought to western Sichuan by Liu immigrants from Jiangxi in the early Qing Dynasty. The Liu people tied dragons and danced dragons every year to celebrate the New Year and pray for good weather. Shangchuan Dragon is huge and majestic. It is operated and danced by 3 to 5 people, and its faucet weighs 3 to 5 kilograms. It is skillful in playing dragons and has many ways.
Chengdu people don't eat on New Year's Day, because "rice" and "crime" have the same pronunciation. In order to avoid taboo, they eat glutinous rice balls or dried noodles to pray for family reunion and live a long life. Liu Ge and other places will have a "off-year" on the seventh day of the first month, and besides worshipping the gods and ancestors, they will also have a reunion dinner. Chengdu people visit Du Fu Cottage in the western suburbs every day. On New Year's Day in Changshou County, nine candles were burned outside the door, which were called "Nine-grade Candles" to respect heaven and earth.
Sichuanese love to watch "lights" in the Spring Festival. The land in Sichuan is full of lights.
On this side, the Zigong Lantern Festival with the theme of "exotic customs" gives off bursts of "foreign flavor"; On the other side, the traditional Chengdu Lantern Festival is changing with charming streamers for the 35th time.
In Jianyang in the middle of Sichuan, Jiangyou in the north of Sichuan and Yibin in the south of Sichuan, three New Year Lantern Festivals with different styles are also lit for the second time. The land of Shu in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Sheep is full of lights.
Lantern Festival is a traditional folk cultural activity of the Chinese nation, and there is a tradition of hanging lanterns and holding lantern festivals in many places during Chinese New Year holidays. For the lively and peaceful Sichuanese, the Lantern Festival is indispensable, and the Lantern Festival has become an indispensable "new year's goods" for Sichuanese. Therefore, the Sichuan Lantern Festival has a long history and a high level, and is known as "Yi Deng in the world" and "the first of the China Lantern Festival". In particular, Chengdu Lantern Festival and Zigong Lantern Festival, with their majestic momentum, ingenious conception, exquisite craftsmanship and rich local customs, have become the leaders of local lantern festivals in China.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Sheep, the Zigong Lantern Festival, which has a history of nearly a thousand years, sang "foreign operas" with the theme of "exotic customs" and was the first to light lanterns in Shu. At the Lantern Festival, the classic story fragments and scenic spots of Greece, Rome and Egypt, such as the Battle of Troy, the pyramids of Egypt and Swan Lake, were wonderfully and vividly explained by the traditional lantern art in China. The lantern festival set up 3 funny projects of foreign cartoon characters and animals, such as Robin Hood, Spider-Man and Snoopy, which made people smile frequently. In addition to the strong "foreign flavor", Zigong Lantern Festival also introduced the northern ice lantern for the first time, combining the northern ice lantern and the southern colored lantern at the same time and space, attracting countless people who look fresh.
In Chengdu, the provincial capital, this year's Spring Festival Lantern Festival is the 35th. On the first night of the first month of the first month, the lights were officially turned on, blooming brightly and shining brightly, shining on the sleepless New Year night in Rongcheng. In the cultural park, the water, mountains, buildings and trees are all covered with beautiful lighting, and the viewers are like crucian carp; Outside the garden, the old piano platform was renovated only last year, and at night, the love story of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun's "seeking for the phoenix" was interpreted, as brightly lit and crowded.
The Chengdu Lantern Festival in the Year of the Sheep is full of "sheep". Among the 42 groups of large and medium-sized lights and six groups of memorial lanterns, the light groups that show the jubilation of the Year of the Sheep account for a large proportion. Watching the lights from the west gate and the east gate is the strong breath of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Sheep. At the west gate, "Sanyang Kaitai, Danfeng Chaoyang", the auspicious gas comes on the face; At the East Gate, three sheep stand on the gate of the Lantern Festival in semi-relief, beautifully decorated, and watching the Lantern Festival is like entering the "wishful gate" of the Year of the Sheep. The people watching the lights were in groups of three or five, laughing and taking pictures in front of the light group. As usual, the delicious Chengdu people will never forget to eat at the snack exhibition after watching the lights. What kebabs and pork intestines are delicious, and the food stalls are full of people.
"Hua Deng looks at the stars high". The "Water Lantern Festival" held for the first time in Sancha Lake, Jianyang, where the lake waves are rippling and the mountains are beautiful, the sound of paddles accompanied by lights is unique. On the first day of the first month of the Year of the Sheep, the Lantern Festival was officially unveiled on the water surface connecting the six islands and three peninsulas of Sancha Lake, covering an area of two square kilometers. Its lantern viewing route is six kilometers long, and its vision is the highest in this year's Sichuan Lantern Festival, and more than 2 tourist boats are on standby at any time. At the lantern festival, the "Rose in the Air" (8 meters), the highest independent light group in China, made people look up and admire.
In Taibai Park, jiangyou city, the hometown of poet Li Bai, a large lantern festival of Jiangyou Electric Power is being staged. The lantern festival was designed and produced by more than 15 Zigong lantern makers, and its scale and quantity were the highest in Jiangyou over the years. In the Bamboo Sea in southern Sichuan, Yibin, the only national-level scenic spot with bamboo forest landscape, a large-scale lantern festival was held for the first time this Spring Festival to attract tourists. The Bamboo Sea Lantern Festival in southern Sichuan highlights the characteristics of bamboo sea. Almost all lanterns are made of bamboo, which is unique, among which the large-scale lantern groups such as "Bamboo Weaving Oriental Dragon" and "Shake Bamboo Niang" are even more unique. The vast bamboo sea has a unique charm against the lights.