I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it.

Hometown Festivals (1)

The day before the Dragon Boat Festival, my mom made dumplings. First of all, we have to prepare the fillings for the dumplings, which are of various kinds, including peanuts, jujubes, vegetables, and meat; we have to prepare the banana leaves, wash the leaves, and cut them into well-proportioned leaf strips. Mom will be steamed glutinous rice, the banana leaf a roll, into the cooked glutinous rice, with a little pressure on the hand to stick together, out of peanuts, red dates, vegetables and meat filling pressed into the inside of the rice ball, and then wrapped into a diamond shape, with a bundle of silk thread, a small rice dumplings were born in the hands of the mother. Packed rice dumplings a steam, take out can be eaten. Tear open the leaves, which reveals the white rice balls, but also can be seen vaguely filling the slightly red. At this time the dumplings, not only the flavor of the rice ball, but also mixed with the banana leaf light fragrance. Eating in the mouth cool and slightly sweet, is the best after dinner snacks.

Hometown festivals (2)

On the fifteenth day of the festival, every family has to eat Lantern Festival. The mothers of the families have already made the dumplings, and they are lined up on the cutting board or the table, which is small and exquisite, and very beautiful. Into the pot, the snacks in the water like a naughty doll up and down. Cover the pot, three or two minutes later, turn off the fire, and then open, Lanterns like a smiling doll face, lying happily in the water. With a bowl to serve the snacks, the mouth can not wait to bite up, sweet sesame juice flow out, taste great. Not only that, mom also want to put a coin in a certain Lantern, who ate it, it means who this year, who this year, who is in charge.

Hometown Festivals (3)

My hometown is Kaifeng, and there are a lot of festivals and folklore in Kaifeng, so let me tell you about them.

Cockfighting: a traditional folk opera activity favored by the people of Kaifeng. Cockfighting is a fierce, exciting and interesting competition. Cockfighting selection, feeding, conditioning, training, have a set of strict, scientific methods, extremely fun. Kaifeng Cockfighting Association will hold cockfighting competitions every tourism and cultural festival, the scene is very lively.

Pan drums: Spring Festival, festivals, playing pan drums, is a traditional folk cultural activities in Kaifeng. Kaifeng pan drum rhythmic, set of varied, grand. At present, Kaifeng has more than 30 pan drum team, every New Year's Day, Spring Festival, National Day and cultural festivals, chrysanthemum flower fair, temple fairs, are to be held in pan Xi performances and competitions. The sound of the rumbling drums and the boldness of the drums are very inspiring. Kaifeng Pan drum team has gone to Japan to perform, widely praised.

Kites: April spring breeze kite flying, Kaifeng people's favorite household activities. Kaifeng kites have a long history, many patterns and elaborate production. Every spring, kites fly over the ancient city and compete with each other. Craft kites and miniature kites made by folk artists are the best products for Chinese and foreign kite lovers to collect and appreciate.

Night Market: Kaifeng night market has long been famous, located in the center of the Drum Tower night market is the largest, the most varieties of snacks. Here the flavor of the snacks, modulation fine, elegant flavor, loved by Chinese and foreign guests. "Fried cold noodles", "almond tea" has also traveled across the ocean, to perform in Singapore, is very popular. Nowadays, the night market, snacks, taste of the ancient capital folk customs, has become a tour of Kaifeng a great pleasure.

Chrysanthemum: As early as in the Northern Song Dynasty, chrysanthemums were very popular for a while, and the trend of raising chrysanthemums was more prevalent in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which has a history of nearly 1,000 years of cultivation, with nearly 1,000 kinds of varieties, and is known as the Chrysanthemum City. In late fall, the city is full of golden chrysanthemums in full bloom, and there is an endless stream of tourists, forming a traditional chrysanthemum flower fair.

Bird Market: Bird keeping is a custom in Kaifeng, the ancient capital of seven dynasties,(m.taiks.com) a feature that other ancient capitals are not as good as. Tracing the history of Bianjing Bird Market, it is recorded in Tokyo Dreaming Book. From the antiques left behind by the bird-keeping families in Kaifeng, it can also be seen that bird-keeping and bird-buying in Kaifeng had a new development in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, Kaifeng bird breeding reached its heyday, bird market in the Daxiangguo Temple.

Lantern Festival: The Lantern Festival in Kaifeng has stretched over a thousand years since the Song Dynasty. The Lantern Festival in the ancient capital has inherited the historical tradition and continues to develop. There are many kinds of lanterns, novelty design, grand scale. Whenever the night of the Lantern Festival, colorful lanterns of different shapes abound in the city. The entire ancient city is ablaze with colorful lanterns. The annual Lantern Festival often attracts a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists to come and watch. The annual Lantern Festival allows people to fully appreciate the "fire trees and silver flowers all night long," the splendor of the style.

Temple: The annual Tokyo Yuwang Temple Fair is a great stage for displaying Kaifeng folk art, but also a good place to taste Kaifeng snacks In 1993, Kaifeng resumed the "Tokyo Yuwang Temple Fair", a traditional folk cultural activities, welcomed by the general public. During the temple fair not only folk rituals, but also lion dance, pan drums, dry boat, stilts, suona, Yu opera, Beijing opera and other colorful folk art performances and snacks, tourist commodities exhibition and sale activities.