What are the customs in Jilin Province?

Local customs in Jilin:

1, Yangge

The Northeast Rice-planting Song Yangge is a folk art form widely circulated among the Han Chinese in China, with a very long history.

At present, the Yangge, which is popular in Jilin, is a kind of folk art that integrates dance, singing and theater and is mainly based on dance. From the form of performance can be divided into ground rice-planting song, stilt rice-planting song, inch rice-planting song, as well as lifting pole, back pole, peg pole and other forms of expression. Usually, it is also combined with folk dances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, dry boats, carts, and whip-playing.

Di Yangge is one of the most popular and flexible of the several types of rice-planting songs. There are several theories about the origin of Jilin's rice-planting songs. One of the most widely circulated is that after Kublai Lie claimed the throne of the Yuan Dynasty and established the Yuan Empire, he organized the people into teams of every 50 households and assigned a Yuan soldier to watch over them. During the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, in order to prevent the people from mobbing for rebellion, the Yuan soldiers gathered the men of each household and let him lead the group in singing and dancing. This activity was later passed down as a form of performance and evolved into today's Yangge. The basis of this statement is that in the traditional Jilin rice-planting songs, there is the character of "Old Tart" (referring to the Yuan soldiers), who is the leader and conductor of the rice-planting team.

Jiangcheng's rice-planting song has a strong local color and local flavor, and has a simple and natural life archetype beauty. It has artistic styles and characteristics such as fiery and cheerful, bold and vigorous, simple and honest, humorous and witty, etc. It is especially famous for stilt walking, playing dragon lanterns, running dry boats and teasing lions.

2, stilt-walking

Stilt-walking is a form of folk dance widely spread throughout China, is the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, temple fairs and other traditional festivals in the masses loved a folk dance. It is also very popular in Jilin area. Popular in our Jilin area stilts content is relatively rich, traditional stilts play the role of the characters are the first stilts (martial arts as a son), the second stilts (martial arts as a dancer), fishing, woodcutting, farming, reading, the green snake, the white snake, Hsu Hsien and the general on the dress (female role), the lower dress (male role) and so on.

The stilt-walking performance artistry is very strong, requiring actors to have a good foundation, in addition to the marching and dancing on the square while walking in a variety of formations of the big field, there are two or three people in a group to perform the small field. The performances of small field Yangge are mostly based on stunts, which are also very attractive. Nowadays, stilts, as an art form popular among the masses, have been given new contents, and it is loved by the masses as it plays the role of a living newspaper drama or a role in a play.

3. Dragon Dance

"Dragon Dance" is a perfect form of dance with high artistic skills. Due to the popularity of different regions, the dragon dance performance form is also colorful, in the Northeast, the masses of the dragon dance to the category of rice-planting songs, customarily known as "playing dragon lanterns".

China's ancient people created the image of the dragon to send good wishes, people take the "dragon" as the embodiment of good luck, with the dragon dance to pray for the blessing of the gods, in order to get the wind and the rain, a good harvest. Juggling dragon lanterns is very rich in action, Jilin region is more popular "dragon manipulation of water", "dragon lying on the sand", "small flowers", "pulling out the waist of the nest "Golden Dragon Coil Jade Pillar" and other forms. Its art is characterized by grandeur, vivid and varied dance movements. However, no matter which fancy movements are performed, the performers have to start with broken steps. Today, the dragon dance has become a symbol of revitalizing the spirit of the Chinese nation, and is the most popular folk dance art during important festivals.

4, running dry boat

Popular in the Jilin region, "running dry boat" more with the activities of the rice-planting team, is a part of the rice-planting juggling. The traditional performance program of "dry boat" is generally a fisherman doing simulated actions such as unhooking the cable, a fisherwoman riding the boat forward, and the two of them swinging and dancing. Nowadays, many new elements have appeared. For example, "happy to send grain", "husband and wife to the market" and other forms, more accepted by the masses and enjoyable.

5, Lion Dance

"Lion Dance" is an animal dance, is China's folk dance treasure trove of a pearl, but also a traditional folk sports activities, which originated in the era of the North and South Dynasties. Now, we are popular in Jiangcheng, is the famous "northern lion" school, commonly known as "tease the lion", under the category of rice-planting songs. The lion dance is lively, skillful and beautiful, and accompanied by the joyful sound of gongs and drums, it is more festive and adds a strong atmosphere of joy.

Jilin festivals:

Jilin Province, there are many local festivals to "Changchun Film Festival", "Changchun Automobile Expo", "Jilin Mist Song Snow Festival Jilin Misty Song Ice and Snow Festival", "Tonghua Ginseng Festival" and so on are more influential. The biennial film festival is held in the middle and end of August, and every time the festival is attended by famous stars and big names in the movie industry at home and abroad, which attracts a lot of attention. Auto Expo and Ginseng Festival are mainly investment activities. The Fog and Song Festival is held in January, the coldest month of the year, because this is the best time to see the wonders of fog and song.

1, Freezing Mist and Ice Festival:

Time: January every year

To view one of China's four major natural wonders of the Jilin freezing mist, the festival is about 1 month. During the period held a grand Northeast rice-planting song will be released on the Songhua River river lanterns, lanterns, colorful boat tour of the river will be, fireworks, international and national ice skating and skiing and ice hockey games, a variety of large-scale merchandise ordering, trade fairs and tourism products trade fairs, as well as ice lanterns, ice sculptures, garden festivals. At present, the freezing ice and snow festival has been held five times.

2, Beishan Temple Fair:

Famous, to have "Thousands of temples in the Northeast, Jilin Temple Fair wins Thousand Hills" reputation.

Beishan Temple with Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, the three religions rounded **** at the characteristics. Every year into the summer month of April, the temple will come one after another: the eighth of April Buddha's Birthday Festival, April 18 of the Niangniang Temple, April 28 of the Medicine King Temple, May 13 of the Guandi Temple. Among them, the April 28th Medicine King Temple Fair is the most lively. Since the Kangxi thirty years to build the Temple of the King of Medicine, the gradual formation of an annual temple fair. In recent years, the temple fair is more than ever, every year visitors are more than 300,000 people.

During the temple fair, incense smoke, bells and chimes, male and female believers in worship. On the mountain and down the mountain, a sea of people. Under the mountain there are circus acrobatic performances, health knowledge exhibition publicity. State-run stores, private enterprises, individual stalls and beds miscellaneous goods. A variety of flavorful snacks abound.

Beishan temple fair has been the largest folkloric tourism festival in the northeast.

3, river fishing:

Time: annual winter season

Place: Songhua River or Songhua Lake

Introduction: to Jilin City, there is an activity worth participating in tourism, that is, fishing on the river in winter. First of all, you have to toast to the fishermen who go out to fish on the river to make a strong drink, and then follow more than 30 fishing boats to go out to fish on the river at the same time. At the fishing site, you can experience the joy of fishermen's harvest as the open river fish jump with joy. After fishing, you can set up 8 stoves at the lake side of Ailin Resort and Fishing Harbor, and make "river water stewed river fish" in the original cooking way with the fish caught in Kailiang River and clean lake water as the raw material.