What are the Nanjing customs?

Nanjing customs are as follows:

1. Jinling Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival is on the fifteenth day of the first month, also known as the Lantern Festival or Shangyuan Festival. Nanjing Lantern Festival lasted 10 days before and after the festival, the first eight on the lamp, eighteen down. The Ming Dynasty Lantern Festival was the most prosperous, from the Gala Bridge to the Review Street, fish and dragons, colorful. At that time, young and old watch the lanterns, ten thousand people empty alleys. Later, the centralized lantern area was moved to the area of Fuzimiao, and the area is still very lively every Lantern Festival.

2, Plum Blossom Festival.

In Nanjing's folk festivals, the most noteworthy is the Plum Blossom Festival, held in late February each year, is one of the most lively festivals in Nanjing. Every year at this time, when the plum blossom can be said to be the happiest days in Nanjing, when the eastern suburb of the plum blossom mountain thousands of plum blossoms compete to open, there are thousands of Nanjing people flocked to the plum blossom mountain to enjoy the flowers, view, Zhongshan foot of the sea of thousands of miles of people flowers, spectacular.

3, climb the city head.

Climbing the city head on the sixteenth day of the first month. Every year on this day, Nanjing people and family or three or five friends to climb the city to see the victory, commonly known as the "walk a hundred diseases", "step on the peace". In the past, tourists mainly climbed three mountains, stone city, Jubao (China), Tongji four gates. Now only the Jubao Gate (China Gate) can be climbed. The first month of Nanjing, the weather back to the sun, go out for a walk, a change of fresh air, renewed spirit, not without benefit to the body.

4, waxing moon "dusting".

The old Nanjing every Spring Festival, every family has the custom of dusting. At that time, the living conditions were poor, are the brick structure of the old-fashioned house, to the lunar calendar after the twentieth lunar month, every family should be outside the house, doors, windows and walls, nooks and crannies thoroughly cleaned once. Clothes, household goods, pots and jars should also be scrubbed clean to welcome the arrival of the traditional festivals.

5, on the Si Festival.

Shang Si Festival is the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. Nanjing has a ballad: "March 3, caper flowers race peony, women do not wear no money, women wear a grain warehouse." On this day, people pick chestnut flowers to cook eggs, and legend has it that it can cure headaches. The festival began in six dynasties in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, people hang caper flowers in the door, pots and pans on the stove or on the bed, women wear caper flowers on the head, in order to eliminate disasters and difficulties.