What to eat in Chongqing on February 2

On this day, we eat noodles, spring pancakes, popcorn, pork, etc. Different regions have different foods, but most of them are related to the dragon, and it is common to add the word "dragon" to the name of the food.

The Green Dragon Festival, in some places in southern Jin called "flower tide". People carry wine and food, to the countryside, choose a place to sit around, but also singing and dancing, drinking, also known as "spring", "trekking". Southeast Jin used to use broomcorn millet powder to make pancakes to comfort women. Jinzhong children used to fly kites. Some counties are concerned about this day to play the ash cellar, sacrificial land god. Jinbei region like to eat noodles, vermicelli, called picking the tail of the dragon. And to eat cake paste wolf mouth and eat pears to defeat the fire, playing dirty gas.

Qinglong Festival, the folk in northern Jinbei region to eat Zaowang before the jujube mountain. A family of several people, the jujube mountain cut into several pieces, per capita a share, the top of the three pointed part of the parents to enjoy.

Recheng Hehe Qinglong Festival, there is a stick to more than a thousand years of ancient meeting, can be called strange custom. It is rumored to have begun in the Han Guangwu Emperor years, so far has been more than 1800 years, to commemorate the Dongyue Emperor Huang Feihu water merit and the three societies to celebrate, so it is also known as the "three societies can". On this day, the mountain people have fun and carnival, and the most precious treasures of their respective homes are on display, also known as the folk "bright treasure will be".

Take the treasure can drive away evil spirits to avoid disasters, hoping that the year is good weather and a good harvest. At that time, the women dressed in colorful costumes, singing traditional folk songs, men are playing rugged and tough gods and goddesses of the sky, the earth and the military generals and civil servants, the eight immortals, the common gods, or riding horseback in a sedan chair, ride a cow, carry a pole; or bareback, the waist tie the wild cloth; or cloth pants, the body of the guillotine, the ice ice, the rough purlin, the stone mill, the great show of masculinity.

Local theater called "Hehe two pole". The atmosphere of the social fire is composed of gongs and drums and rendering, the percussion method is simple and primitive, commonly known as "skimming gongs and drums". Traditional programs include lion juggling, dry boat running, stilt walking, and carrying people on their backs. The whole event starts from the outside of the village and ends at the old Taishan Temple.