What folk customs are there in Shanxi?

Shanxi folk customs include: lanterns, bustling, stilts, dry boat running, bamboo horse running, car dancing, chair-picking dancing, lion dancing and so on.

1, lantern

Lantern Festival is the most brightly lit season in a year, which can be regarded as "the fire tree never sleeps". Folk lanterns in Shanxi are no exception. Of course, there is a distinction between light and fire. Lights are lanterns; Fire means setting off fireworks

2. Make a splash

The fifteenth day of the first month, also known as the Lantern Festival, is a folk cultural activity of the Han nationality with a long history. In all parts of Shanxi, the forms of noise are different, but they are all on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Some quarreled from the 14th to 16th of the first month, some quarreled from the 15th to 17th of the first month, and some quarreled only on the 15th night of the first month.

3.stilts

Also known as the kidnapper, performers perform on wooden stilts. Because the performer is a little taller, the audience needs to look up or stand on a high place to watch, so some people call stilts "a high-profile drama."

This kind of activity is very popular in Shanxi Province, and it is a popular form of folk art activities.

Step 4 drive a dry boat

Dry boat is one of the folk performing arts. On holidays, this kind of folk dance is very popular all over Shanxi Province. It is a folk dance that simulates boating in the water.

5. run a bamboo horse

Running bamboo and horse is a popular folk activity of Han nationality in urban and rural areas of Shanxi, which has a history of at least 600 years. Generally, when the Lantern Festival is busy on the fifteenth day of the first month, they are active in squares or streets. The number of people participating in the bamboo horse race performance varies from place to place in Shanxi Province, and the forms of activities are also different.

6, car dance

Car dance, which is popular all over Shanxi, is one of the more common folk dance art forms. It is usually performed on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but it is also performed in other time series festivals.

7. Pick up chairs and dance

Chair-picking dance is popular in Xiquan Town, Xiaoyi County, with strong ethnic customs and local characteristics. According to legend, the origin of this dance comes from the folk story of "a fool plays with his wife" in the Qing Dynasty.

8. lion dance

On the land of Sanjin, lion dance has a deep origin, and it already existed among the people around the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Lion dance, originally a form of folk literature activities in the western regions, only flowed into the Central Plains in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and is an indispensable part of the folk "social fire" and "prosperous fire" on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Lion dance is one of the indispensable forms of folk cultural activities, just like running dragon lanterns and walking on dry boats.