Traditional Festival Customs in Zigong City

Residents wrapped glutinous rice in zongzi leaves to form a diamond, which is called zongzi. They give gifts to each other and eat them with sugar. Some people also take beans and meat as stuffing. Every family hangs Ai Chen and Acorus calamus on their doors, calling them "Pujian Ai Hu" to ward off evil spirits. And take all kinds of herbs to decoct and bathe, which is called avoiding poison. Women make monkeys and zongzi out of silk, cloth scraps wrapped in spices and cotton, and hang them on children to show that they can avoid soldiers. At noon, the table dishes are particularly rich, and there must be amaranth, because the color of amaranth is red, which means good luck; Be sure to eat realgar wine and apply it to the child's forehead, so as to avoid the plague. 2 H) a0 [！ t5 W5 S； M# p- b7 h

On that day, there were dragon boat fairs at the docks of Fuxi River and Tuojiang Town, and there were dozens of boats, each with several to dozens of sailors. There is a dragon tail at the fore and aft of the ship, and there are two people who beat gongs and drums to shout their songs. In addition, there are floating objects in the river and ducks fall. Dragon boats compete, gongs and drums are loud, and people are jubilant. The winner of the duck prize will get a bride price. And racers and bride price. Wealthy families like to hold banquets with colorful boats in the river, which is called swimming in the river. 6 d2 P！ V3 Y/ V I) }0 x

After liberation, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival remained. The Dragon Boat Festival is held irregularly and is sponsored by the government sports commission. # [.N & ampm" ]# d- Q/ l+ J/ {

Zigong people are simple, hardworking and hospitable, and the traditional food culture is very distinctive. Whenever there are weddings, funerals and Chinese New Year holidays, it is shameful to invite friends and relatives in the neighborhood to get together. Banquets generally have eight bowls, nine bowls and ten bowls. But there must be Baba meat, stewed chicken soup, salted boiled water, bacon, Sichuan-style pork, caviar, etc., and the rest are wild meat and cold dishes.

Zigong cuisine emphasizes salty, spicy and hemp. This is because the local salt price is low, and the working people (salt workers and farmers) work hard, sweat a lot, and the climate is humid. With local characteristics, there are semitransparent spicy beef jerky made of yellow beef eliminated from saltworks, such as fire flat beef, Baba meat, wrapped patties, crispy meat, boiled beef, seasonings, beef slices, spicy and smooth soup, lotus dishes, tofu and other soybeans rich in Zigong area. People in cities and rural areas have always been.

Dinosaurs, well salt and Yuanxiao are called the "Three Wonders" in Zigong, and the "Little Three Wonders" are Gong Fan, tie-dyeing and paper-cutting, and they are well-known at home and abroad for their reputation as "the Millennium Salt Capital", "the hometown of dinosaurs", "the lantern city in the south" and "the hometown of Jiang Jie".

Zigong Lantern Festival was designated by the National Tourism Administration as "China Folk Art Tour", "China People's Life Tour" and a large-scale folk cultural activity overseas. Zigong Lantern Festival attracted nearly 65.438+0.5 billion Chinese and foreign tourists, and was praised as "high-taste art", "mobile cultural tourism resources", "pride of national traditional culture" and "second in the world" in the 15th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival.