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The first town in Guangxi is?

The No. 1 town in Guangxi - Binyang Litang.

The town of Litang belongs to Binyang County, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Geographic location is south of the Tropic of Cancer, between latitude 23 ° 06 ′ ~ 23 ° 15 ′, longitude 109 ° 01 ′ ~ 109 ° 17 ′ between the central part of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Binyang County, east of the city of Nanning, 93 kilometers away from the city of Guigang, 50 kilometers away from Guigang, from the city of Liuzhou 99 kilometers. Litang Town covers an area of 219 square kilometers.

Litang Town is a national key town and an autonomous region well-off demonstration town, a transportation hub and an industrial city in Guizhong.

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The main folk traditional festivals unique to Litang are the Lantern and Wine Festival and the Victory Festival. In the folk traditional festivals, families offer sacrifices to their ancestors, set off firecrackers, and in some festivals, such as March 3 and Victory Festival, people dance dragons and lions, do the board-shoe dance, and snatch firecrackers and colored lanterns.

Victory Festival

In the first month of the lunar calendar in 1945, the Japanese invaders repeatedly to Litang Township Division Village to recruit men, women, and pay 20,000 catties of rice. 6:00 a.m. on the ninth day of the third month of 1945, the ghosts of more than 100 people into the north cliffs of Shilong River. Division village men, women and teenagers and the ghosts fought to the next day at 00:00, the ghosts are still unable to attack the Division village, they returned to Litang Wei overnight.

The first ten days of March, the Division Village slaughtered three pigs, in the Wang's old house ancestral hall set up a banquet to celebrate, the whole village people *** with the celebration of the victory against the Japanese devils. Since then, the village people decided, the first nine days of March on the lunar calendar for the Division Village anti-Japanese victory anniversary, every year on this day, the village slaughtered chickens and killed ducks, feasts prepared food and wine, and widely invited the four sides of family and friends, VIPs, guests and neighbors of the village fathers and mothers *** with the feast, in order to educate the future generations do not forget the day of the victory.

Light Wine Festival

Litang Township people in the first month of the 11th day of the Lunar New Year, every house lights, kill chickens and ducks, placed on their own tables, sacrifices to the ancestors, the gods, in order to pray for the ancestors to bless the family fortune, peace and a good harvest. The village also find people to take the head, go from house to house, according to the head to collect money, buy back the wine, food, offerings, the village shrine, the temple worship some, the whole village will be concentrated together to eat a meal.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Litang Township