1. Xie Xia Every newly married bride has to go back to her natal home and be separated from her husband for about two months when summer comes.

If the bride is getting married in the second half of the year, it will be in the summer of the following year. This custom is called "the bride takes a summer break".

Then the natal family sends someone to the son-in-law's home to pick up the daughter and take her home with her. Sometimes the bride waits for a few days after sending someone to come and then returns to her natal home alone.

2. Winter Red Festival. Cixi includes many areas in eastern Zhejiang. The Dragon Boat Festival is called "Donghong Festival". It is difficult to verify. It is probably caused by the mispronunciation of "Dragon Boat Festival" in the dialect.

In addition to rice dumplings, Cixi also has the custom of eating noodles during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that "when you eat noodles in Donghong, flies will not get on your face."

3. Bayberry Festival Henghe Town, Cixi City, is the famous town of bayberry. The town has a bayberry planting area of ??25,000 acres and a total annual output of nearly 10,000 tons. Both area and output rank highest among towns and villages in the country.

In 1996, it was named "Hometown of Yangmei in China" by relevant state departments.

Cixi City has held the first Yangmei Festival since 1989. The Yangmei Festival "uses plums as a media, cultural addition, and economic results". It has not only become a major festival in Cixi City, but also attracted guests from all over China and overseas.

Extended information: The custom of summer break in Cixi: Before the new daughter-in-law returns to her parents’ home to rest for the summer, the father-in-law and mother-in-law should prepare some gifts for the bride and give them to the in-laws. They should also give the new daughter-in-law a certain number of "red envelopes" and cut them into pieces of kraft paper.

Let your daughter-in-law bring a sample of family-sized shoes.

During the summer break, the bride's main task, besides resting at her parents' home, is to make shoes for her parents-in-law and the whole family.

The bride often, with the help of her mother, makes pairs of new shoes for her husband's parents-in-law, uncles, younger siblings, commonly known as "Toudai shoes" according to the shoe patterns and sizes brought by her husband's family.

The meaning is that the shoes are made by the bride for the first time when she returns to her natal family. As a gift to honor her husband and his family, it is also an expression of the new daughter-in-law's respect for the husband's family. On the other hand, it also shows the bride's craftsmanship.