Litchi Dog Meat Festival is a spontaneous folk festival in Yulin City, Guangxi Province, and a traditional folk custom to celebrate the summer solstice. Every summer solstice, generous and hospitable locals are used to getting together to eat dog meat, get together with friends to celebrate the summer solstice and drink wine with fresh lychee. In addition to Guangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places also have the custom of eating dog meat, while North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam and some European countries also have people who eat dog meat.

Yulin city officials have never organized a dog meat festival, and the real "litchi dog meat festival" does not exist. Dog meat festival is not a simple ceremony organized by the government, but a spontaneous behavior related to local food culture.

Holiday spirit

According to textual research, people in Yulin eat litchi dog meat from summer solstice, which has long been rumored by the people and recorded in Yulin local chronicles. Listening to folk stories, this thing has existed since ancient times, and it is a traditional culture. But such customs in ancient times should not be as famous as they are now. There is a simple reason. In the past, the economy was not so developed and the material was not so rich. In recent years, with the reform and opening up, the economy has developed.

Material is extremely rich, so it rises. In Yulin, just these years. Litchi stalls on the street started to set up stalls at 6 pm, and the whole city was boiling and brightly lit. Men and women drank and punched together, and the wine was fragrant and fragrant until the evening 10. So litchi shells are everywhere, all red, covering the whole city like a carpet.

Like the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, it is mostly a gathering of relatives. On the solstice of summer, it is mainly a gathering of friends and drinkers. The streets and alleys are full of people who guess horses and fight boxing. When it is really lively, the whole city is immersed in a bouquet of wine and meat.

According to incomplete statistics, 1.5 million Yulin people were drunk on this day! In recent years, this trend has spread to the surrounding counties and cities, and there is a spark that can start a prairie fire.

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