What are the customs of the Spring Festival in Gansu?

The customs of the Spring Festival in Gansu are:

1, Fuxi Temple Association

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, Fuxi was born according to legend. On this day, it is the famous Fuxi Temple' Renzu' temple fair in Tianshui. For Tianshui people, this day every year is a day to offer sacrifices to Fuxi, the ancestor of mankind, to remember his grace, to carry forward Fuxi culture and to promote social unity and progress.

2. Go to Jiuchao

Every year on the ninth day of the first lunar month, Tianshui citizens will go out of the city to see' Chaoguan' in Yuquan, which is one of the biggest mass cultural activities in Tianshui. On the eighth night of the first month, citizens flooded into yuquan temple. At zero o'clock, the crowd was almost full.

3. New Year's ball club fire

Shehuo, which is widely popular in all parts of Gansu, is a comprehensive performing art, with many genres and dances, mostly performed in the first month of the lunar calendar. In the folk social fire performance, heroes in history, good men and filial daughters and various characters in folklore are taken as roles.

4. Zhouqu welcomes her mother-in-law

"Welcome Mother-in-law on the 19th day of the first month" (called Mother-in-law in Zhouqu) is a folk activity with strong local color left over from Zhouqu County, and it is the climax of the whole first month activity, just like the carnival in Zhouqu County. It has a history of 500 years, which has expanded from simply welcoming children and begging to today's folk activities that bless one party's peace and disaster.

5, playing vinegar altar

Playing vinegar altar before and after the Spring Festival is not only a very old custom, but also contains the scientific truth accumulated by our ancestors through countless years. According to the traditional view, the activity of playing vinegar altar means praying. The room smoked with vinegar altar is relatively clean, which is convenient for welcoming immortals and can also achieve the purpose of disinfection and sterilization.