Origin of Dongkeng Songkran Festival

Dongkeng Water-splashing Festival, or "Prostitution Festival".

Origin: According to legend, 400 years ago, there was a large family named Lu in Dongkengtang Village. In order to start farming before Qingming Festival, the second day of the second lunar month is chosen as the agricultural products trading market day every year, and the enlightenment of inviting long-term farmers is posted in front of the village.

Since then, young people who have no land and no job have got used to each other. On the second day of February, they all sat on the village fence, wearing hats and coarse cloth to show their "prostitution" and sell their labor, waiting for the rich to hire them. Rich people who own fields will go to the village to choose young people who sell themselves, hence the name "selling themselves".

Extended data:

The custom of "Dongkeng Water-splashing Festival";

Over the years, the festival days must be "half sunny and half rainy". Water can make money, so in recent years, young men and women among tourists always like to shoot water with toy water guns in the streets and alleys every "sex festival".

Later, on the day of the "Prostitution Festival", visitors can enjoy shooting water in Dongkeng and bring home the blessings of the "Prostitution Festival". Nowadays, it has developed into a comprehensive traditional folk culture festival integrating labor market, traditional trade market, mass, secularity and entertainment.

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