What are the folk activities in Shanxi?

1, Tim Cang Festival

Fill Cang Festival, for the twenty-fifth day of the first month of each year, is said to be the birthday of the Cang King, which is a Chinese folk festival to symbolize the New Year grain harvest. "Fill the warehouse festival" because "fill" and "day" homophonic also known as "day warehouse festival", the folk have the old days warehouse and small day Cang of points. The twentieth day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the small sky warehouse, the twenty-fifth day of the first month for the old sky warehouse, is a traditional folk festival. Some say that Tiancang Festival is the day of sacrifice to the stars, some say it is for the sacrifice of the land or the sacrifice of the mill god. By filling the barn, it means filling the barn.

2, June 6 Festival

June 6, Jinnan region known as "back to the mother's family festival". Around June 6, wheat has been harvested, is in a stage of agricultural idleness, is the perfect time to visit relatives, the folk have "June 6, walking strike wheat" proverb. June 6th, in many places in Shanxi evolved into a temple fair.

3, the temple fair

Shanxi people through the temple fair on the trade transactions, the excess of agricultural products for sale, for their own can not produce items such as farm equipment and so on, but also to participate in the gongs and drums, rice-planting songs, car and boat sedan chair, stilts, lanterns, and other kinds of folk arts and cultural performances. Shanxi folk ancient temples on behalf of: Taiyuan Zoo Temple; Jinzi ancient temple; Xiangning County, the eighth of April "oil cake will be"; Hongdong Guangsheng March 18 ancient temples; Ruicheng County, March 3 ancient temples.

4, make a fire

Make a fire, an ancient Chinese folk culture. When the New Year comes, lighting torches, fires, or charcoal fire pans in the yard is known as "Tingliao", "residue basin", "burning fire basin", and "burning pine basin" in ancient times. The ancient names for these fires were "庭燎", "籸盆", "烧火盆", "烧松盆"(《帝京景物纪略》), and "旺相", and the modern Chinese folklore name for these fires is "生旺火", or "点发宝柴", In modern Chinese folklore, it is known as "making a fire", or "lighting the firewood", or "burning Qin Hui" (on New Year's Eve in Shaanxi, and on the Lantern Festival in the 1980s in Luoyang, Henan). In the ancient times, the court prairie fire was used to drive away evil spirits or to offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. Later, the raw and prosperous fire has been developed to symbolize the prosperity of the whole family and to express good hope.

5. Kangwai Paintings

The formal composition of kangwai paintings has a set of fixed programs. The two sets of sidewalks above and below are arranged according to certain specifications to form the main frame, and various paintings are arranged at equal distances in the center. It has the decorative form of complete symmetry and the expressive connotation of simplicity and complexity. The part on the kang is the main part, and the potting table painting, stove painting, and wall painting are the extended parts.