New Year's Day is a miniature version of the Spring Festival in China, the biggest festival in China, and the Spring Festival is coming soon! This New Year, will you just play mahjong at home and catch up with the drama? I also want to recommend a fun place to you today. The first folk culture temple fair and Spring Festival Lantern Festival in Xinyang, Henan Province will be held from the first day of the first month to the sixteenth day of the first month. The first Jigongshan Folk Culture Temple Fair and Spring Festival Lantern Festival

Time: the first day of the first month to the 16th day of the first month

Location: Xinyang, Henan

Activity: Jigongshan Scenic Area in Xinyang

Traffic Guide:

Jigongshan is 38km away from Xinyang, and Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and Beijing-Hong Kong High-speed Railway (Zheng Wu High-speed Railway) stop at Xinyang Station and Xinyang East High-speed Railway Station. Generally, you can take a bus from Xinyang to visit Jigongshan. If you go by train, you can get off at Jigongshan Station, and then transfer to a bus to go up the mountain. However, Jigongshan Station is only a small station. Generally, the express train does not stop, so you should pay more attention when choosing a car. There are two hiking routes. One is to go up the mountain by car along the Pan Highway, with a total distance of 9 kilometers. The other is to climb the mountain on foot, the whole journey is only 4 kilometers. The mountain is flat, with hotels, restaurants, department stores, post offices and other service facilities.

Tickets: 72 yuan

Opening hours: 24 hours

Location of scenic spots:

Introduction to the temple fair in Jigongshan National Scenic Area near No.171 Administrative Middle Road, Hexian District, Xinyang City

This is the first time that Jigongshan, Henan Province has held the Spring Festival temple fair.

The temple fair has always been an excellent place for China to take relatives and friends to climb the mountain and pray for blessings in the New Year. Jigongshan Scenic Area has integrated the resources of the scenic spot this time, and Qi Li has created a cultural feast for tourists in the New Year.

There will be hundreds of delicacies and wonderful Henan classic folk performances at the temple fair.

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Visiting the temple fair in the first month, playing while walking and eating must be a very important content.

This year's Jigongshan Folk Culture Temple Fair and Spring Festival Lantern Festival not only retains the China characteristics of the tip of the tongue: more than 111 kinds of delicious foods such as Yunnan Flower Cake, Guizhou Flower Powder, Taiwan Province A Zai Jian, etc., but also adds world-wide delicacies, exotic flavors such as Japanese sushi dishes, Brazilian barbecue, magic ice cream, etc., so that tourists can enjoy a hearty meal without leaving the country.

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Folk performing arts, it must also be brilliant, with bright spots

The first Jigongshan Folk Culture Temple Fair and Spring Festival Lantern Festival will be accompanied by delicious food, dragon and lion dances and acrobatics, as well as banging gongs and drums to lift sedan chairs, throwing hydrangeas, walking on stilts and changing faces in drama. All kinds of traditional folk performing arts will be presented here one by one.

The most amazing night performances, the Millennium stunts-striking iron flowers, changing the face of Sichuan Opera, and gorgeous lantern shows, create a sleepless night for tourists in Jigong Mountain.

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The last highlight is behind, that is, the activity of striking iron flowers.

In the Spring Festival Lantern Festival, folk masters are invited to perform the Millennium stunt.

The fire is like gold, and the stars are like electricity. Winter nights are really glittering and translucent, with thousands of flowers and trees.

In the first month, Jigongshan welcomes the new lantern festival, and it is romantic together to the end.

This year's Jigongshan Folk Culture Temple Fair & Spring Festival Lantern Festival has a large-scale Spring Festival theme lantern exhibition combining the cultural characteristics of Jigongshan: Golden Pig Spring Festival theme lantern, beautiful Jigongshan theme lantern and Page Paradise theme lantern

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The dreamy and colorful lights reflect the strong New Year flavor of Jigongshan. In the Spring Festival, if you want to be more prosperous in a year, how can you lack New Year's blessings? Seek peace in the living Buddhist temple and pray for luck in the Linghua Temple. When you come to Jigongshan in the New Year, you must bring your own New Year wishes and cheer for the coming year together.