What are the customs in Chengdu for the New Year?

After the reunion dinner, Chengdu people like to help the old and take care of the young. The whole family went to Daci Temple to ring the New Year bell to make the children fragrant.

On New Year's Eve, monks from Daci Temple gathered in Ursa Hall to hold a grand New Year blessing ceremony. At midnight, with the cries of tens of thousands of citizens counting down, the abbot of Daci Temple personally rang the New Year's prayer bell of 108. According to legend, when the old and the new alternate, it is the most prosperous time of Yin Qi's year. The bell rang 108, which means that the mysterious Lao Yang Qi woke up from the depressed place of the earth and air, and the shock filled the whole city.

2. "Man Day" Caotang Sacrifices Du Fu

The custom of visiting the thatched cottage on "People's Day" (the seventh day of the first month) originated in the Tang Dynasty. The annual "People's Day" has become a special day for Chengdu people to visit the thatched cottage and remember the poet Du Fu.

3. On the fifteenth day of the first month, couples "steal youth"

According to the traditional custom in Chengdu, young people who like the girl next door can steal some vegetables from their aunt's vegetable field on the fifteenth night of the first month to show their love. When a girl discovers that her vegetables have been stolen, she knows that a young man has fallen in love with her, and her heart will be filled with joy and longing.

4. The Great Temple will gather Chengdu folk skills.

People's favorite place to go is Wuhou Temple, and Wuhou Temple is also the most lively place to visit the Temple. Temple fair is both a religious ceremony and a market. Face changing, fire spitting, lantern rolling, hand shadow play, puppet show and other Sichuan opera unique skills, shadow play, clay sculpture, sugar man, Tang Hua, paper cutting and other folk unique skills can be seen at the temple fair, rolling iron rings, spinning top, riding a chicken car, pulling springs and ringing springs. ...

5. Fire Dragon and Huanglongxi

In ancient times, "burning dragons" here was a large-scale backbone activity in the ancient "Dragon Lantern Festival", which lasted from the second day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month. From 65438 to 0994, huanglongxi town established the "Huanglongxi Fire Dragon Team" and successfully applied for the patent of "Special Fireworks for Huanglongxi Fire Dragon Performance". Every year from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, there is a lion dance performance during the day and a dragon performance at night.