What are the Spring Festival customs in Nanjing?

Nanjing folk in the Spring Festival, in addition to the Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year's paintings, the New Year's Eve, lion dance, the New Year's Day and other customs like the whole country, there are also jumping Wuxan, the big horse lanterns, playing stove fire and other traditional customs.

1, jumping five rampant

Jumping five rampant is a Spring Festival custom in Gaochun, Nanjing. Every Spring Festival, the local rural areas to celebrate the harvest and pray for good luck in the coming year, will organize colorful folk activities, in which jumping Wuxan is a more distinctive custom. During the performance, the venue is circled with colorful flags, and the onlookers are all over the place. Squeeze through the bustling crowd, the empty field of a group of people or line, or dance, or leap, hideous masks, peculiar costumes, heavy action, odd speech, full of mystery. Baskets, flags, gongs, drums, firecrackers, a cheerful scene.

2, big horse lamp

Damascus lamp originated in the Tang Dynasty, prevalent in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is a kind of folk dance imitating the shape of a war horse, currently popular in Gaochun area of Nanjing, known as one of the best in the south of the Yangtze River. For locals, this is a "New Year's dish" that must be ordered during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival.

3, play stove fire

The social fire is a kind of folk cultural heritage in Lishui, Nanjing, which is characterized by double drums, drums and drums, and rich in performances. The so-called "playing social fire" is a kind of folk recreational activity carried out in the rural society during the Spring Festival in the old days when the gods were rewarded and prayed for, in order to celebrate a good harvest and pray for the people's safety and health in the coming year.