Dunhuang Customs and Folklore

April 8 Temple Fair Dunhuang "April 8 Temple Fair" is a traditional folk festival. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, local residents, especially Buddhist believers, in honor of Sakyamuni Nirvana, with the old and the young, in groups, gathered at the Mogao Grottoes, the Three Dangerous Hills, Leiyin Temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha, pilgrimage to the ancestor.

Sandboarding Festival Every year on June 1, Dunhuang City Tourism Bureau, Bureau of Culture, Sports Commission and other units jointly organized a large sandboarding festival. Sandboarding is a way to play on the lower part of Mingsha Mountain.

Tanning waist and legs Mingsha Mountain sand grains are pure and dust-free, and hot sand baths treat rheumatoid arthritis. June 6 every year, there are waist and leg disease patients, boiled chicken soup, ready to old yellow wine, after noon, to the sand beams under the Mingsha Mountain, drink soup, drink wine, and then buried in hot sand waist and legs, the head of the umbrella to cover the cool, so that the body in the scorching sun exposure for about three hours.

Silk Road Festival Starting from Lanzhou, the festival travels west along the foothills of the Qilian Mountains, passing through Wuwei, Zhangye and Jiuquan, crossing the Jiayuguan Pass and finally arriving at Dunhuang. There will be camel rides and sand hill climbs. Time: Around mid-September each year