What are the traditional festivals and customs in Foshan?

Foshan's traditional festival customs;

Tongji 1

Every year on the 16th day of the first month, there is a custom in Foshan called "helping the poor". There is a Tongji River near Nanpu Park in Foshan, and there is a bridge on the river called Tongji Bridge. Foshan people believe that "there is no harm in doing good." On this day every year, people come here to cross the bridge, burn incense, throw lettuce and spin windmills. The crowd was in an endless stream and very lively.

2. Dragon Boat Race

Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are folk dragon boat races all over Foshan, and all towns and villages send dragon boat teams with a prosperous lineup to participate.

3. Autumn colors

Also known as "Autumn Night" and "autumn scenery", it is a large-scale folk culture and entertainment activity unique to Foshan. In the past, autumn colors were mostly held in the evening of the autumn harvest season, and the forms of expression were divided into seven categories: light color, car color, horse color, ground color, water color, floating color and scenery. A variety of exquisite handicrafts were exhibited in the form of a parade, and entertainment programs such as dragon dance, lion dance, ten fans and gongs and drums cabinets were performed.

4. Love flowers complex

Before the Chinese New Year, people had a strong love for flowers and had the habit of "walking the flower street". On the streets of Foshan, many people will visit Flower Street, buy a peach tree in this shop and a pot of daffodils or kumquat in another shop. Shopping in Flower Street is a traditional custom of Foshan people.

Step 5 dance and wake up the lion

In the traditional Spring Festival custom in Foshan, lion dancing is an essential program to celebrate the Spring Festival. From the beginning of the Lunar New Year, gongs and drums can be heard in front of ancestral halls in many villages or on the streets of small towns, and lion dances can be seen jumping up and down.