Shaoxing related folk customs:

1. Dayu Ling Kite Festival, time: March 22nd - April 15th, location: Kuaiji Mountain;

2. Kuaiji Mountain Cherry Blossom Festival, time: March 25 to April 15, location: Kuaiji Mountain Cherry Blossom Forest;

3. Lanting International Calligraphy Festival, time: March to April in early March of the lunar calendar every year , Location: Lanting;

4. Shaoxing Rice Wine Festival, time: October every year;

5. Public sacrifice to Dayu, time: Qingming Festival, location: Kuaiji Mountain;

6. Celebrating Chinese New Year in Lu Xun’s hometown, Time: Lunar New Year, Location: Lu Xun’s Hometown Scenic Area;

7. Kuaiji Food Carnival, Time: Lunar New Year, Location: Dayu Mausoleum Scenic Area in Kuaiji Mountain;

8. Houshan Peach Blossom Festival, time: March-April every year, location: Houshan;

9. Keyan Xianglin Osmanthus Festival, time: golden autumn, location: Xianglin.

Shaoxing is located in the north-central part of Zhejiang Province and on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay. It is a cultural and ecological tourism city with the characteristics of a Jiangnan water town.

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Folk customs and folk arts:

Yue Opera originated in Shaoxing. Yue Opera is good at lyrical expressions, mainly singing, with clear and melodious tunes, beautiful and melodious performances, and real and moving performances, which are full of Jiangnan local flavor.

She opera is a traditional folk entertainment custom popular in Shaoxing. It is a play performed in the spring and autumn seasons in urban and rural areas of Shaoxing to worship the social gods and to reward the gods and pray for blessings. Social opera originated from the custom of worshiping social gods in the spring and autumn in rural areas.

At first, the Spring Society was used to pray for a good harvest, and the Autumn Society was used to celebrate a good harvest. Later, it developed into a performance to reward gods and pray for blessings, and then became a folk cultural and entertainment activity. The custom of performing social dramas in Shaoxing was popular as early as the Southern Song Dynasty and was still popular in the late Qing Dynasty.

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