What are the unique customs of Anqing Spring Festival?

The unique customs of Anqing Spring Festival are as follows:

1, lion throwing

"Lion-throwing" is a custom formed by working people in their long lives, based on Feiximen songs, lion dances and sacrificial activities. Among them, the lion's head is separated from the lion's body, and the lion's head dancer lifts the lion's head before going to the stage and puts it on her upper body. There is an upward throwing action between the sleeves, so it is called "throwing the lion's head".

2. Go roller-boating

On the fifteenth day of the first month, you can often see the custom of playing with dry boats in urban and rural areas of Hefei. The wick of the roller boat is a woman, and the protagonist of the roller boat is Gong Li. She twists her body with the roller boat and hums a tune with the rhythm of gongs and drums from time to time. The lyrics are full of charm, improvisation and humor, which is the most interesting scenery of local festivals.

3. Bozhou class meeting

Bozhou large class meeting is a rare folk dance, which is very wonderful and unique, and because of the development of the plot, it has the same effect as traditional Chinese opera. The actors dressed in costumes and painted faces came on stage one after another, making a lot of noise. Although the large class meeting has a strong color of karma in form, it intensively expresses people's desire to punish evil and promote good.

4.stilts

Stilts, also known as "Stilts Yangko", is a form of Han folk dance. Artists dance with their legs tied on stilts, accompanied by music, and the dance is mainly vigorous and thrilling.

5. Yingzhou Elbow Pavilion

Elbow Pavilion is one of the outstanding folk dances in Yingzhou area, which was reformed and innovated by Mr. Wang Xing, a generation of folk dance master whose ancestral home is Yuanji, Yingzhou, on the basis of the ancient folk dance Tuoge. In the process of performance, actors should complete actions that pay equal attention to skill and difficulty, such as scissors step, running flower field, backflip, backflip, free swing and so on.