What are the unique festivals in Wu Hanyou?

What are the famous traditional festivals and customs in Wu Hanyou? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao's sharing today!

1, Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first lunar month

Introduction: "Dust rises early and spring comes early. There are many lucky stars, but few bad stars ",which is a local proverb in Wuhan. "On the morning of the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, every household will raise dust, clean indoors and outdoors, and welcome the New Year. Moreover, the sooner the dust rises, the better. It is said that spring comes early and disasters can be avoided. The laid ash is not treated at will, but mixed with fire ash and sprinkled in the ground, saying that this can prevent silkworms from growing in the ground. In this way, after indoor and outdoor cleaning, light paper on the roadside, which is to send Vulcan and avoid disaster. People in Wuhan have set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival since they ate New Year's Eve at the age of 30. They first put out whips to ward off evil spirits, set off firecrackers and sat at home for New Year's Eve dinner. On New Year's Eve, a "vigil" is usually held at midnight to ring bells and set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Introduction: People in Wuhan eat Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, which is called "Tangyuan". Its ingredients and taste are different, but the meaning of eating Yuanxiao is the same. Represents reunion and beauty, and the days are getting more and more prosperous. As the saying goes, harmony and family reunion are important factors of a complete family. Therefore, we must eat "Yuanxiao" with our families during the Lantern Festival. "Sending lanterns" is short for "sending lanterns", and its essential meaning is sending lanterns to children. That is, before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family sends lanterns to the newly-married daughter's family, or ordinary relatives and friends send them to the newly-married infertile family. In order to increase good luck, because "lamp" is homophonic with "Ding". She expressed the hope that her daughter would be lucky after marriage and have a son soon. If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the big palace lantern, she should also send one or two small lanterns to wish her a safe pregnancy. In Wuhan, solve riddles on the lanterns is an interesting entertainment. Lantern riddles originated from the code words of the Western Han Dynasty and later developed into folk riddles, also known as "playing riddles".

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Time: April 5, Gregorian calendar.

Introduction: Wuhan people eat Sijimei soup packets in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Wuhan baozi stuffed with juicy pork was formed on the basis of the traditional practice of Soviet style baozi stuffed with juicy pork. This kind of soup bag has the characteristics of Wuhan flavor with thin skin, thick soup, tender stuffing and fresh taste. There are new varieties such as shrimp soup packets, mushroom soup packets, crab soup packets, chicken soup packets, assorted soup packets, etc., with various designs and unique flavors. Not only is it deeply loved by Wuhan people, but it is also quite famous throughout the country. Experienced diners eat by biting jiaozi's skin gently, slowly sucking up the soup inside, and then eating jiaozi's dough and meat. Only in this way can we truly appreciate the unique taste of steamed dumplings.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Introduction: Wuhan people like to eat Wuhan Zongzi, mung bean cake and so on. On May 5th, people in Jingchu boiled or steamed glutinous rice and threw it into the river as a sacrifice to Qu Yuan, so they threw it in bamboo tubes for fear of being eaten by fish. Later, rice was gradually wrapped in rice leaves instead of bamboo tubes, which has been passed down to this day.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar.

Introduction: The traditional Wuhan time-honored moon cake is a kind of Soviet-style moon cake, with a small diameter of about 15cm and a large diameter of 20-30cm. Most of them are filled with "five kernels", including "peach kernel, almond, plum kernel, melon kernel and pine nut". The most classic is the fat pickled with sugar, plus winter melon sugar. Now this kind of old moon cake is rarely produced by manufacturers. The traditional old moon cakes in Wuhan have gradually become Soviet-style small moon cakes. The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in old Wuhan, and it is also the custom for women to go to the suburbs to play. The description in Zhi Zhu's Ci of Wuhan Mid-Autumn Festival: "Watch the moon flowers by the fence and sit around with sparrows;" Until the end of eight laps, I went home at night ",which is about the excitement of women playing mahjong. "

6. Double Ninth Festival

Time: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month

Introduction: During the Double Ninth Festival, people in Wuhan have activities such as sightseeing, climbing high and overlooking, enjoying chrysanthemums, planting dogwood everywhere, eating double ninth cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine. Wine is brewed on the Double Ninth Festival. It is said that the wine brewed here is the clearest and will not go bad after a long time. The Double Ninth Festival in Yingcheng County is a wishing day, and even every household worships the God of Fangshe Tianzu on this day.

7. East Lake Plum Blossom Festival

Time: 65438+ every year 10 to March.

Venue: Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area

Introduction: During the Plum Blossom Festival, more than 200 varieties of plum blossoms and plum blossom piles of various schools can be seen in Meishan Meiyuan, as well as many plum blossom groups, plum blossom calligraphy and painting photography exhibitions and plum blossom art performances. Visitors can enjoy plum blossoms in Han Jie Central Pier, Han Xiu Pier, Tingtao Gorge Waterfront Pier and Moshan Meiyuan Pier, enjoying plum blossoms during the day and watching performances at night.

8. East Lake Cherry Blossom Festival

Time: March to April every year.

Venue: Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area

Introduction: From the end of March to April every year in Wuhan, Hubei Province, East Lake will hold a cherry blossom festival. During the Cherry Blossom Festival, there are a series of cultural activities besides cherry blossom viewing. In 2005, the Cherry Blossom Festival launched the first night cherry blossom viewing activity. Donghu Cherry Blossom Garden covers an area of more than 300 mu, with more than 0/000 cherry blossoms and 56 cherry blossom varieties. It is also known as the world's three major cherry blossom viewing resorts, along with Hirosaki City in Japan and Washington, USA. The whole garden adopts Japanese-style courtyard landscaping, which is a cherry blossom garden with exotic characteristics and mainly planted cherry blossoms. Visitors can enjoy brilliant single-petal cherry blossoms, elegant double-petal cherry blossoms and graceful drooping cherry blossoms.

9.tulip flower show

Time: March to April every year.

Venue: Dongxihu Tulip Theme Park and Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Introduction: There are two main exhibition areas in Wuhan Tulip Flower Show, namely, Dongxihu Tulip Theme Park (9. 1 km on Wuxin Line in Dongxihu District) and Wuhan Botanical Garden. Dongxihu Tulip Theme Park now has a total planting area of 38,000 square meters, with tulips10.5 million, red as fire, white as snow and pink as roses. It seems like a world of flowers! The Dutch style in the park complements the waterscape in the south of the Yangtze River. In addition to all kinds of delicious food, there are many recreational facilities such as children's play area, flower supermarket, farming and leisure area.

10, River Crossing Festival

Time: July every year

Venue: Wuhan

Introduction: Wuhan Yangtze River Festival is a national festival to commemorate President Mao Zedong's swimming in the Yangtze River. Sponsored by the Swimming Management Center of the State Sports General Administration, China Swimming Association, Wuhan Municipal People's Government and Hubei Provincial Sports Bureau, and undertaken by Wuhan Sports Bureau, Jiang 'an District People's Government, Hanyang District People's Government, Wuchang District People's Government and caidian district Municipal People's Government. During the festival, guests from all over the world gathered in Wuhan, toured the Yangtze River, visited three towns, enjoyed the ancient Chu culture and felt the present civilization. On the festival of crossing the river, besides the non-timed swimming activities that ordinary swimmers take part in, there is also an individual time trial, which is called the crossing the river competition.

1 1, International Tourism Festival

Time: September every year

Venue: Wuhan

Introduction: Wuhan International Tourism Festival is a large-scale international tourism activity held by Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, to show the charm of Wuhan as an international metropolis and promote the development of tourism. Sponsored by Wuhan Municipal People's Government and undertaken by Wuhan Tourism Bureau in conjunction with relevant tourism enterprises. Founded in 2002, Wuhan International Tourism Festival is a grand gathering of performing groups and artists from more than a dozen countries, and it is also a fusion of multi-national cultures. The main activities are fireworks display, snack temple fair and so on. Every session of Wuhan International Tourism Festival focuses on the fashion charm of cultural Wuhan and Happy River City with colorful activities, showing the gorgeous customs of great rivers, great lakes and great Wuhan, so that citizens and tourists can enjoy a happy and peaceful holiday during the National Day Golden Week.

12, International Horse Racing Festival

Time: every year 10 month.

Venue: Oriental Macheng, Wuhan

Introduction: Wuhan International Horse Racing Festival is a large-scale city festival sponsored by Wuhan Municipal People's Government. The aim is to create a business card of Wuhan city, with speed horse racing and equestrian competition as the guide and "horse" as the theme. National culture and horse culture complement each other, sports, tourism and culture are integrated, and high-level sports events are integrated with national art, which has a far-reaching impact on promoting speed horse racing, spreading horse culture and revitalizing China horse industry. China Wuhan International Horse Racing Festival is not only an artistic festival of horse culture, but also a blend and collision between sports and culture, tourism and economy. With the help of domestic and foreign media, Wuhan Horse Racing Festival has gained a great reputation overseas, showing the charm of the Millennium horse culture and shaping a new image of the century-old horse racing capital.

13, Shennongjia Ice and Snow Festival

Time: 65438+ from February to March each year.

Venue: Tian Yan Ski Resort

Introduction: Shennongjia Ice and Snow Festival was held in Tian Yan Ski Resort, which is located in Tianyanfeng Scenic Area in the north of Shennongjia. It is a new tourist attraction integrating skiing, scenery appreciation and exploration. There are practice places in the scenic area, as well as primary ski resorts and intermediate ski resorts. In the scenic spot, 1500 people can play here at the same time, and the total length of the snow trail is about six kilometers. Moreover, the ski resort has established an international standard for the color decomposition of snow trails, equipped with warning signs, and the supporting facilities are relatively advanced and complete. During the ice and snow festival, preferential measures are taken for tickets to scenic spots, and citizens in Shennongjia, Shiyan Xiangyang, Yichang and Jingzhou are free. During the ice and snow festival, there are also folk song and dance parties. In addition, there are many special tourism projects, such as skiing and watching wild golden monkeys. Visitors can experience the New Year folk customs in Shennongjia, especially the golden monkey cartoon characters here are very charming.