Cixi customs are winter red festival and Yangmei Festival. Cixi folk "winter red festival" this day will be filled with male yellow, camphor, sandalwood incense incense bag and other ornaments hanging on the body of small children. Cixi Yangmei Festival "to plum as a medium, cultural boost, economic results", is a major festival in Cixi City. Cixi, jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo City, county-level city, because of the rule of the south of the stream, Dong An Dong Han "mother of mercy and filial piety" and so named. Cixi is located in the East China Sea, Hangzhou Bay south coast, 60 kilometers east of Ningbo, 148 kilometers north of Shanghai, 138 kilometers west of Hangzhou, is the Yangtze River Delta region, the southern wing of the Greater Shanghai Economic Circle, an important industrial and commercial city.

Donghong Festival

Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is the traditional Chinese folk festival - Dragon Boat Festival, in Cixi, but people commonly called this festival "Donghong Festival", not called the Dragon Boat Festival. Winter red festival folk sayings: a, winter red flower cake summer solstice noodles, eat the elephant like the cattle in Jian. Second, winter red prunes hanging basket head, summer solstice prunes full of red. La snail toad (toad) to avoid winter red. The first thing you need to do is to eat the winter red dumplings, and then freeze them.

Yangmei Festival

Cixi City from 1989 began to organize the first Yangmei Festival, Yangmei Festival, "plum as a medium, culture, economic results," not only become a major festival in Cixi City, but also attracted guests from all over China and overseas. As the origin of Chinese plums, the plum picking tour is one of the most distinctive tourism programs in Cixi.

Cixi is a national civilized city, national garden city, national sanitary city, China's happiest city, China's county economic informatization pilot counties (cities), the national comprehensive reform of small and medium-sized cities in the pilot area, Zhejiang high-quality development and construction of **** the same affluent demonstration area pilot area. The top 100 counties and cities in the comprehensive strength of small and medium-sized cities in the country, fifth in 2017, sixth in 2018, seventh in 2019, eighth in 2020 and sixth in 2021.