What folk culture are there in Shanxi?

In Huangzhong, the flower drum is hung upside down, the iron stick is carried on the back, the fisherman plays mussels, Master Shen sits in a sedan chair, the Jinnan Blood Society Fire, the Yellow River Lantern Festival, the Taiyuan Society Fire, the Huairen Wanghuo, and the majestic gongs and drums.

Shanxi folk culture includes lanterns, fireworks, stilts, dry boat running, bamboo horse running, chair-picking dance, lion dance, dragon dance, dragon boat dance and so on.

Folk social fire: Folk social fire is a popular folk entertainment activity in Shanxi during the Spring Festival. On May 20th, 2006, Shanxi Shehuo was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Social fire is a folk self-entertainment activity during the traditional New Year-Spring Festival, which has a long history and originated from the worship of land and fire in ancient times. Society, land god; Fire is the ancestor of fire and the legendary Vulcan. As a result, the custom of offering sacrifices to social fires has emerged among the people and has been handed down year after year.

Shanxi paper-cutting: Shanxi paper-cutting is one of the oldest traditional folk arts. As a hollow art, it gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment visually. Its carrier can be paper, gold foil, silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather and other sheet materials. Paper-cutting is a very common mass art in Shanxi, which adds color and joy to thousands of families for the people. From generation to generation, people have gradually formed a relatively complete and mature custom in aesthetic significance and artistic expression.