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Customs in Jinan

There are four special customs in Jinan:

The fifth day of the first lunar month, commonly known as the "Broken Five" Festival. On this day, women are not allowed to visit, which is unlucky. On this day, all families eat jiaozi for good luck. Nowadays, although people don't pay attention to visiting women, eating jiaozi on this day has become the habit of all families.

Lantern Festival The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, commonly known as "Lantern Festival", is also called "Lantern Festival". In Jinan, the annual Lantern Festival is extremely spectacular. At this time, all kinds of lanterns are hung in parks, factories, mines, enterprises and streets. At night, palace lanterns, gauze lanterns, fish lanterns, basket lanterns and racing lanterns are radiant and beautiful. Especially the annual Baotu Spring Lantern Festival is unique. All kinds of lanterns, bird and beast lanterns, lantern lanterns, story lanterns, riddle lanterns, etc. Or magnificent, or simple and elegant, or original, with distinctive local color. On this day, it is popular for every household to eat Yuanxiao. In addition, around the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys of Jinan are full of stilts, roller coasters, dragon lanterns and lions. People put some myths and legends, historical stories, strong love and hate and good wishes into this folk art rich in national traditions, adding a festive atmosphere.

"Dragon Head Up" is the Spring Dragon Festival on the second day of the second lunar month, commonly known as "Dragon Head Up", which means that the dragon is prosperous and controls the rain, and the weather is good. On this day, citizens get up early and fry "scorpion claws" (that is, beans are pickled and fried) to prevent insects from biting scorpions; Old people and children have haircuts to see if they can avoid disasters; In rural areas, it is popular to "smash" with furnace ashes to wish a bumper harvest. These customs have been continued by people to this day.

Qingming is the fifth of the 24 solar terms in China. The ancients attached great importance to this solar term and left many interesting customs. In Jinan, there are "hiking", "sweeping graves", "swinging", "inserting willows" and "planting trees". Hiking: It was also called hiking or hiking in ancient times, but now it is called spring outing or outing, which is the main custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In ancient times, on this day, people got together to make friends, help the old and bring the young, play in the spring suburbs, then sit around for a picnic and return at dusk. Jinan has beautiful scenery and beautiful scenery. Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring is bright and the weather is sunny. People climb the Qianfo Temple in the south, visit Huming Lake in the north, Shan Ye and spring, and tourists are everywhere. Grave-sweeping: Tomb-Sweeping Day visited the grave. On the fifth and sixth day of April in the solar calendar, citizens bring paper, incense and offerings to pay homage to their ancestors, add soil to the graves and remember their ancestors.

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