What are the characteristics of Tianjin festivals

1, Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: Tianjin Spring Festival time period broadly refers to the Lunar New Year from the beginning of the Lunar New Year Lahai Festival began, and has been to the end of the second day of the second month of the dragon head. Tianjin folk "not out of the first month even if the New Year", but narrowly speaking, Tianjin Spring Festival day only refers to the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. The main value of Tianjin's New Year's custom is "family joy", the social significance of which is to ensure the reunion of patriarchal families in a patriarchal society. The Laha Festival on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year is known as "Laha'er" in Tianjin, and many people in Tianjin drink Laha congee and soak garlic in vinegar on this day, thus preparing Laha garlic and vinegar for the first month of the lunar calendar. From the 15th day of the Lunar New Year's Eve, Tianjin's New Year's Eve vendors will be "on the whole street", that is, the stores will be on the New Year's Eve goods all together, all the food and drink and entertainment merchandise are put on sale. Tianjin's Lunar New Year's Eve market is mainly concentrated in the center of Tianjin Tianhougong Gongnan, Gongbei Street, which is today's Ancient Culture Street area.

2, Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar

Introduction: the fifteenth day of the first month of the Shangyuan Festival, the people of Tianjin call it the "Festival of Lights," which is a day when every family eats soup yuan, but also offerings to the gods and the Buddha's noodle made of hedgehogs and rats. Before and after the Lantern Festival, Tianjin city stores from the 13th day of the first month to the 17th day of the first month, five days of lights. Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, tianjin families and customs across the country are generally the same in order to eat the lanterns. The 25th day of the first month in Tianjin is the festival of filling the warehouse, the proverb "filling the warehouse filling the warehouse, dry rice and fish soup", reflecting the custom of Tianjin people to eat rice and boil fish on this day. On the night of the 24th day of the first month, every family in the rural areas of Tianjin also draws a small hoard and a small ladder with white powder on the ground in their own courtyard or house, and puts grain and copper coins on top of them to symbolize the abundance of food and grain in the coming year.

3, Dragon Head Raising

Time: the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: In Beijing and Tianjin, there is a folk proverb that says, "February 2, light the beams, scorpions and centipedes have nowhere to hide," the people want to drive away the pests on this day, lighting candles, shining beams and walls to drive away scorpions, centipedes, and other insects. The people would light candles and shine them on the beams and walls to get rid of scorpions and centipedes, which would fall down and be eliminated as soon as they saw the bright light. The custom of driving away insects on the day of Dragon Head Carrying is mainly popular in the northern part of China. On February 2, all kinds of insects, including poisonous insects, begin to move frequently, and in order to avoid the harm of poisonous insects, people hold some activities that contain the meaning of repelling insects. For example, they use sticks, brooms or shoes to beat on beams, walls, portals, beds and kangs to avoid snakes, scorpions, centipedes, rats and other insects, and they usually recite chants and sing songs, such as "February 2, the dragon raises its head, scorpions and centipedes do not show their heads".

4, Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: more than a decade, Tianjin every year, the professional sector to organize the dragon boat race, obviously the introduction of the folklore of the Jiangnan, and increased the heavy atmosphere of the festival, participating units of men and women as Jiangnan players. Heavy Jiangnan attire, drums and gongs, a warm scene, as if in the Jiangnan water town of Zeguo. After the Dragon Boat Festival, people will be inserted in front of the door and the back of the house on the Ai are removed, the old ladies will be dry Ai installed in a cloth bag in the courtyard, a little spray a little water will be able to waft out a strong aromatic odor, drive away mosquitoes ushered in a peaceful night's sleep. Mosquito bites in the summer, with mugwort leaves, toadstools, ice chips, edible vinegar-soaked solution, a good wipe, very effective. Cold and cold shoulder pain cut fresh ginger slices placed in the affected area, and then dry moxa leaves pinched into a cone-shaped small pieces placed on the ginger slices lit, to get rid of the disease in addition to the pain is wonderful.

5, Lahai Festival

Time: the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: in the "Lahai" this day, the Buddhist temples are doing the meeting, and with rice, beans, fruit porridge for Buddha, called "Buddha porridge! ", but also to the poor porridge. In the early years of Tianjin temple is very much, good men and women, rich and wealthy gentry, every year, the wind of porridge is extremely prevalent. Some charitable organizations, merchants, the Riemen, public offices, large families in this day a large number of congee to give to the poor, called "Karma congee". Laha Festival is the prelude to the Spring Festival, Beijing and Tianjin proverb "wife wife you do not want, after the Laha is the year", Laha means that after the Spring Festival stage. On the day of Laha, people should eat the festival food Laha porridge

6, Fangte lantern festival

Time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Address: Fangte

Introduction: At that time, the entire park will be transformed into a sea of lights, bringing visitors an excellent visual feast. During the Lantern Festival, visitors can not only enjoy many creative large-scale lanterns in Tianjin Fantasia, but also participate in colorful Chinese New Year special activities in the park. The Chinese New Year Temple Fair, lantern riddles, red packet wall and other activities will bring visitors a joyful experience with a rich flavor of Chinese New Year, and a New Year full of joy and blessings. Tianjin Fantasia Spring Festival Temple Fair gathers hundreds of kinds of food to satisfy the taste buds of tourists from all over the world; the lantern riddle guessing game is very interesting, and the whole family can use their brains together; the red packet wall hides many prizes, which will make the tourists surprised constantly. At the same time, Tianjin Fantasia's carefully prepared New Year's Eve performances are not to be missed. The Wa compatriots celebrated the New Year with passionate dances, and there were also "all kinds of gods and goddesses" parading around to send their blessings, which made every place full of New Year's flavors.

7. Taiping Flower Drum Festival

Time: 19th day of the 2nd month of the lunar calendar

Address: Xigu's temple fair

Introduction: It is said that the first time appeared in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, and it was spread by the people of Fengyang to Xigu, and so it was dipped in the name of "Fengyang Flower Drum". The name of the show is "Feng Yang Flower Drums". The guild by eight thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenagers based on the Water Margin story performances, four people on the stage for a class, taking turns to sing, the tune to the Fengyang flower drum tune or Kunqu-based, and sometimes also sings a new compilation of the lyrics, the meaning of the word novelty and interesting; behind the stage is accompanied by two gongs, three gongs, flute masters and protection of the teenage congregation of martial arts congregation; guild of the four pairs of musical instruments for the king whip, a small drums, a small gongs and flower drums.

8, the Royal Society

Time: March 23 of the lunar calendar

Address: Ancient Culture Street

Introduction: to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Queen of Heaven and the activities held by a long time ago, and later because of the Qing Emperor Kangxi visited Tianjin to appreciate the Queen of Heaven Palace Flower Festival, and the flag, and thereafter renamed the "Royal Society". The name was then changed to "Huanghui". As Tianjin is located at the sea, there are many people who have been living by the sea for generations, and sailing is a very dangerous thing, so in the ill-fated sea, people only have to pray for the blessing of the gods. Tianhou Niangniang, known as "Mazu" in the south, is the god of the sea, which is very popular in Tianjin, and there are a lot of rituals for the activities of the flower fair. Every legendary Tianhou Maiden's birthday, in the Tianhou Palace as the center of these places are all over the drums, lions, Chinese streamers, flower drums and other performances, sometimes all night long.

9, Happy Valley Fantasy Light Festival

Time: January to March every year

Address: Happy Valley

Introduction: Happy Valley to the "famous intangible cultural heritage-Zigong lanterns "as the core, in the inheritance of ancient Chinese art and culture at the same time combined with the current popular fashion cultural elements, constantly creative innovation, incorporating popular elements and interactive experience. This is the Tianjin old traditional meeting, Tianjin Happy Valley invited more than a hundred Zigong lantern craftsmen, pure hand carved, the application of 16 kinds of colorful and gorgeous colors to create more than a hundred groups of lanterns, *** about 80 million lights, will be a combination of traditional and fashionable, science and technology and interactive into the integration of a set of craftsmanship, modeling, color, interaction, scale in one of the fantasy light festival, presenting a light and scenery mingled, layered The festival will be a light feast with a mixture of lights and scenery and distinctive layers.

10, Tianjin Moonflower Festival

Time: May every year

Address: Tianjin

Introduction: Tianjin Moonflower Festival was founded in 1984, the Tianjin Municipal Government will be the year the moonflower as the city flower, the planting of the moonflower and the cultivation of the moonflower in Tianjin has been a great development, the season of the seasonal flowers in full bloom in May each year, flower viewing, flower appreciation Every year in May, the season of blooming moonflower, flower watching, flower appreciation has become an important activity, and now, it has evolved into an international tourism festival with local characteristics.

11, Tianjin Beer Festival

Time: July every year

Address: Nanshi Food Street or Water Park

Introduction: Tianjin Beer Festival is held in July every year, the venue is generally in the Nanshi Food Street or Water Park, there will be a number of well-known beer companies will be exhibiting. During the festival, a variety of activities are colorful, both novel and chic opening ceremony, traditional drinking contests, beer exhibition and sale, lucky draw, mass photography contest, calligraphy and pen, as well as modern song and dance, rock and roll, opera, beer dishes competition, as well as beer culture seminars and various forms of beer trade transactions.

12, Golden Autumn Tourism and Leisure Shopping Festival

Time: October every year

Address: Tianjin

Introduction: promotional activities during the festival colorful. The city's commercial streets (centers), major retail malls, chain supermarkets will make full use of commercial streets, commercial centers, tourist outlets, organizing and carrying out industrial and commercial hand in hand, farmers and businessmen join hands, businessmen and businessmen join hands and business tourism, business and cultural combination of thematic promotions, displays and publicity activities. Among them, Heping District, the Tourism Bureau and the Golden Street Service Company will be in Heping Road, the Golden Street to carry out tourism project promotion, cell phone festival, clothing and apparel, wedding photography show, Mid-Autumn Moon Cake exhibition and sales activities; Hexi, Hedong, Tanggu will use their own commercial streets to vigorously create a festive atmosphere, to carry out all kinds of recreational and cultural promotions; Nankai District, the use of the ancient culture street, Gulou Commercial Street and other tourism and trade centers for domestic and foreign tourists to travel, Shopping for domestic and foreign tourists to travel, provide a good environment and quality service.

13, Tropical Style Tourism Festival

Address: Tianjin

Introduction: Visitors can view and participate in the three tea, bride kidnapping, bamboo dance and other ethnic minority ethnic singing and dancing stunts and customs, watch the Mayan period of porcelain, stoneware, murals. Catch peak mountain tourism temple fair, you can learn about the culture of national medicine; visit the largest ostrich garden in North China, enjoy the national songs and dances, folkloric flower fair, live in a farmhouse to experience the characteristics of folklore. To Xinkou Town, the sixth port village agricultural high-tech demonstration park can participate in the picking, to understand the famous new vegetable planting, Boer goat breeding, and local farmers to work in the field, to appreciate the rural landscape.