Where is the hometown of social fire in China?

"China's Hometown of Shehuo" is Longxian County, Shaanxi Province.

This activity is called "Carnival on the Yellow Land". The villagers participate collectively, and the whole people revel, which makes people excited. It is famous for causing social fires in Longxian County, Shaanxi Province, both inside and outside the province. My hometown, Longxian County, Shaanxi Province, was called Longzhou in ancient times. Shehuo entered this land with my ancestors in my hometown. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the present, it has spanned more than 2200 years.

As a folk ritual activity of ancestor totem worship and praying for happiness in heaven, social fire is not only rich in content and grand in scale, but also magnificent and full of folk customs. Nowadays, the social fire in Longxian County, Shaanxi Province has developed into a mass folk art and entertainment activity with fixed faces, costumes, props and performance process.

Some activities related to social fires

Every Spring Festival, every village, factory, enterprise and institution should dress up as a social fire. From the second day of the New Year's Day, the well-dressed social fire went from village to village and toured to give people New Year's greetings. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of this activity. All the social fires were staged in the county, with more than 200 social fire teams and more than 5,000 participants.

It not only attracted people from all towns and villages in the county to watch, but also attracted hundreds of thousands of people to watch in Qianyang County, Fengxiang County, Baoji City and Pingliang City of Gansu Province around Longxian County. At this time, the streets and alleys are crowded, gongs and drums are loud, colorful flags are flying and colorful, which has become a big landscape.