What are the customs in Shandong?

1, Jiaozhou Yangko

Jiaozhou Yangko has a history of more than 300 years, which is mainly spread in Jimo, Huangdao, Jiaonan, Gaomi and other areas in Shandong. Jiaozhou Yangko used to be called "Diyangko", "Running Yangko", "Three Bends" and "Twisting Waist". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was called "Jiaozhou Yangko" because it was mainly active in the suburbs of Jiaozhou.

2. "Shi Gandang" custom

The beliefs and customs of "Shi Gandang" are widely distributed, centering on Mount Taishan in Shandong, and gradually spread to Japanese and Koreans in all parts of the country (including Taiwan Province Province and ethnic minority areas), East Asia and Southeast Asia, and overseas Chinese communities around the world.

Its main manifestation is a small stone tablet (or small stone man) standing on the bridge or built on the wall of the house, engraved with the words "Shi Gan Dang" or "Taishan Dang Gan" to suppress the ominous.

3. Kite custom

Weifang, Shandong Province is a famous place of kite production in China, and there were kite-tying artists in the Ming Dynasty. Later, with the popularity of the custom of flying kites, the art of flying kites reached its peak.

Weifang kites have three basic shapes: rope shape, hard wing shape and simple shape, among which centipede shape is the most prominent. On the basis of inheriting the essence of tradition, modern kites have been constantly renovated and won the reputation of "kite art, Weifang first". Now Weifang has become a fixed venue for the International Kite Festival.

4. Jiaodong flower Bobo

Shandong Jiaodong Flower Cake is a folk custom with strong local flavor, which is popular in Jiaodong area. Jiaodong flower cake is made of flour and shaped into various images with simple tools. After centuries of evolution, Jiaodong Flower Cake not only inherits the traditional culture, but also shows the spirit of the times.

5. Jinan dough sculpture

Jinan dough figurines are vivid in color and exquisite in craftsmanship. The figures made by twisting fingers with knives, grates and needles are lifelike, especially in shaping the characters in ancient costume dramas in China.

Director Liu of Jinan Folk Art Museum introduced that the birthplace of modern dough sculpture is Shandong, and the representative figure is Dong Fengqi, who is especially good at figure painting. "The highest limit of dough sculpture is microplasticity, and the minimum microplasticity of Dong Fengqi characters is only one centimeter high."