How do the southerners celebrate the Spring Festival ah?

Sichuan: "Qiang New Year Festival"

The Qiang people are one of the ethnic groups with a long history in the Chinese family. The Qiang now live mainly in Mao County, Wenchuan, Li County and parts of Songpan in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.

The Qiang New Year Festival is celebrated on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year, usually for 3-5 days, and some villages have to celebrate it until the tenth day of the tenth month. According to the folk custom, the Qiang New Year also wishes to honor the gods, to worship the god of the sky, the god of the mountain and the owner of the land (Zhai Shen). The whole village should have reunion dinner, drink smack, dance Shalang, until all the fun is over. The whole ceremony is presided over by "Xu", and the smacking wine is opened by the respected elders in the village. During the festival, friends and relatives can congratulate and invite each other.

Sichuan Hakka Spring Festival Customs

The continuous migration of the Hakka people has made them more attached to their homeland. Nostalgia for their native landscapes and customs makes them unite tightly and overcome difficulties and hardships again and again, and traditional customs have become a strong link between the Hakka people. Among the Hakka people of Sichuan origin, the traditional customs and habits of the Hakka people have been maintained for two or three hundred years.

The Hakka people attach great importance to the Lunar New Year. Every household hangs colorful lanterns, pastes door gods, and writes auspicious language on grain silos and poultry and livestock pens to indicate an auspicious harvest for the coming year. Conditional Hakka townships from the first month to February to play the lamp dance, the types of lamps are dragon lamps, lion lamps, clam lamps, etc., which is the Hakka people in the origin of the colorful lamps of the custom handed down to this day. In addition, large-scale celebrations will be held - dragon dance, there are colorful dragons, fire dragons, water dragons, off-season dragons and and on the Chuan dragon points. Among them, especially the Shangchuan Dragon is the most distinctive. Shangchuan dragon is the early Qing Dynasty Liu immigrants from Jiangxi Province brought to the west of Sichuan, by the Liu clan year after year to tie the dragon, year after year to dance the dragon, for the New Year's Day, pray for the wind and rain. The Shangchuan Dragon is huge and majestic, operated and danced by thirty to fifty people, with a dragon head weighing thirty to fifty pounds, and is skillful and versatile.

Chengdu people do not eat on New Year's Day, because "rice" and "criminal", homophonic, in order to avoid, then eat dumplings or noodles to pray for family reunion, longevity. Liu Ge and other places on the seventh day of the first month "people day" but also "a small year", in addition to honoring the gods, ancestors, but also ate New Year's dinner. Chengdu people are in the western suburbs of Du Fu Cao Tang tour. Longevity County on New Year's Day in the door burning nine wax candles, known as "nine candles" to honor heaven and earth.

Sichuan people love to watch the New Year's Eve "lights" in Sichuan, a light scene

This side of the room, the "exotic style" as the theme of the Zigong Lantern Festival only to send out bursts of "foreign flavor!

On this side of the Zigong Lantern Festival with the theme of "exotic flavor", a burst of "foreign flavor" is emanating; on the other side of the traditional Chengdu Lantern Festival for the thirty-fifth time, a fascinating light.

And in Jianyang in central Sichuan, Jiangyou in northern Sichuan, and Yibin in southern Sichuan, three different styles of Chinese New Year lanterns were also lit. In the New Year of the Sheep, the land in Sichuan is ablaze with lights.

Lantern fair is a traditional folk cultural activities of the Chinese people, every New Year festivals in many places have hung lanterns, the tradition of lantern fair. And for the love of lively, peaceful Sichuan people, the New Year can not be without "lights", lanterns will become the Sichuan people for the New Year's indispensable "New Year's goods". For this reason, Sichuan Lantern Festival has a long history, high level, known as "the world's first light", "China's first Lantern Festival". Especially Chengdu Lantern Festival and Zigong Lantern Festival, the momentum of the majestic, the conception of the strange, exquisite craftsmanship, local flavor of the rich, into the Chinese local Lantern Festival of the best.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Sheep, Zigong Lantern Festival, which has a history of nearly 1,000 years, "changed face" to sing "foreign drama" to "exotic flavor" as the theme of the first lanterns lit up in Sichuan! In the lantern show, Greek, Roman, and Chinese artists were invited to perform in the lantern show. Lanterns, Greece, Rome, Egypt, the three great civilizations of the classic story fragments and attractions, such as the Battle of Troy, the Egyptian pyramids, Swan Lake, etc., through the form of traditional Chinese lantern art, has been a wonderful and image of the "interpretation". Lanterns set Robin Hood, Spider-Man, Snoopy and other thirty foreign cartoon characters, animals and other funny projects, so that people frequently show their smiles. In addition to the strong "foreign flavor", Zigong Lantern Festival also introduced for the first time in the north of the ice lanterns, northern ice lanterns and southern lights in the same time and space for the combination, attracting countless people to see the fresh.

In the provincial capital of Chengdu, this year's Lunar New Year Lantern Festival has been the thirty-fifth. In the first night of the first month of the official opening of the lights, bright bloom, stream of light, shining the sleepless New Year's Eve in the city of Chengdu. Culture Park, the water, mountains, buildings, trees are all draped in beautiful lights, light spectators such as crucian carp; outside the park, only last year, the repair of the Qintai Trail, in the night interpretation of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun "phoenix" love story, the same is brilliantly illuminated, people like weaving.

The Chengdu Lantern Festival in the Year of the Sheep is full of "sheep", and in the forty-two groups of large and medium-sized lanterns and six groups of pagoda lanterns, a large proportion of the lanterns show the joy of the Year of the Sheep. From the west gate and the east gate into the park to watch the lanterns, touching that is the strong flavor of the Year of the Sheep New Year. West gate, "three suns, phoenix and sunrise," the auspicious atmosphere to the face; East gate, three sheep in half relief in the lanterns on the door, beautifully decorated, look at the lanterns like the year of the sheep into the "Ruyi door. Lantern viewers in groups of three or five, the sound of laughter, have in front of the lantern group to take pictures. As usual, Chengdu's delicious people always forget to watch the lanterns, to the snack show to feast, what barbecue meat kebabs ah, fat sausage noodles ah are delicious, food stalls surrounded by people.

"The lanterns are looking at the stars," he said. In the rippling lake, mountain color exquisite jianyang three branches of the lake for the first time held "water lanterns", paddle accompanied by lights a different beauty. On the first day of the first month of the Year of the Goat, six islands and three peninsulas connected to the Sanqiao Lake, with a land and water area of two square kilometers of water, the lanterns will be officially unveiled. Its viewing route up to six kilometers long, the vision of the broad for this year's Sichuan Lantern Festival of the crown, there are more than two hundred various types of tourist boat lights on standby. Lanterns, the current domestic independent light sets the highest "air rose" (eighty meters) let people look up and marvel.

Tai Bai Park in Jiangyou City, the hometown of the poet Li Bai, Jiangyou Electricity Light Large Lantern Festival is being staged. The lantern will be more than one hundred and fifty Zigong lantern makers design and production, the scale and number of Jiangyou calendar year lantern will be the most. In Yibin, South Sichuan Shunan Bamboo Sea, the country's only one to the bamboo landscape of the national scenic area, this year's Spring Festival for the first time organized a large-scale lanterns to attract tourists. Shunan Bamboo Sea Lantern Festival highlights the characteristics of the bamboo sea, almost all the lanterns are made of bamboo, unique, which "bamboo Oriental Dragon", "shake the bamboo lady" and other large-scale lanterns is a masterpiece. Ten thousand hectares of bamboo sea in the light of the reflection, a unique flavor.