Customs of Kaifeng

The customs of Kaifeng are as follows:

The traditional folk culture of Kaifeng has a long history, is colorful and rich in characteristics, and is loved by the general public. Kaifeng Folk Culture Festival is to carry forward the excellent traditional culture, focusing on the display of local characteristics of the important festival of folk activities, held once a year. During the festival, all kinds of folk performance team will gather together, there are lion dance, pan drums, stilts, dry boat, suona and other colorful folk art.

Flying kites in the spring breeze of March is a favorite activity of Kaifeng citizens' families. Kaifeng kites have a long history, many patterns and elaborate production. Every spring, kites fly over the ancient city and compete with each other. Craft kites and miniature kites made by folk artists are the best products for Chinese and foreign kite lovers to collect and appreciate. In recent years, Kaifeng has hosted the Second National Kite Competition and the International Kite Festival, so that this traditional folklore activity continues to flourish.

Bird-keeping is a custom of Kaifeng, the ancient capital of seven dynasties, which is a feature that is inferior to other ancient capitals. Tracing the history of the bird market in Bianjing, it has been recorded in Tokyo Menghua Lu.

From the antiques left behind by the bird-keeping families in Kaifeng, it can also be seen that in the Ming Dynasty, bird-keeping and bird-buying in Kaifeng had a new development. By the Qing Dynasty, bird raising in Kaifeng reached its heyday, and the bird market was in the Daxiangguo Temple (tickets). In recent years, Bianjing Bird Market, spontaneously formed on the west side of Bianjing Park, is a unique landscape in Kaifeng City.

The Lantern Festival in Kaifeng has stretched over a thousand years since the Song Dynasty. The Lantern Festival in the ancient capital has inherited the historical tradition and continues to carry it forward. Lantern will be a variety of new design, novelty, scale. Whenever the night of the Lantern Festival, colorful lanterns of different shapes abound in the city. The entire ancient city is ablaze with colorful lanterns. The annual Lantern Festival often attracts a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists to come and watch. Every year, the Lantern Festival allows people to fully appreciate the splendor of the "night sky of fire and silver flowers".

The Spring Festival, festivals, playing drums, is a traditional folk cultural activities in Kaifeng. Kaifeng pan drum rhythmic, set of varied, magnificent, by the general public and Chinese and foreign tourists love. At present, Kaifeng has more than 30 pan drum team, every New Year's Day, Spring Festival, National Day and cultural festivals, chrysanthemum flower fair, temple fair will be held in the pan drum performances and competitions. The sound of the rumbling drums and the heroic posture of the drummers are very inspiring. Kaifeng pan drum team has been to Japan, Hong Kong performance, widely acclaimed.