What are the unique folk customs of Henan Province What are the unique folk customs of Henan Province?

1, the unique folk customs of Henan Province are the ancient temple fair in Joon County, February 2, Beggar's Day, Ghost Festival, Zao Festival and Fried Noodle Festival.

2, the ancient temple fair in Joon County, Joon County's annual "first month of the temple fair" is famous, is the living fossil of the Central Plains folk culture, is the epitome of the original culture, a German folklore scholars strolled through the temple fair called the Joon County temple fair for "the Chinese people's carnival". 2004, a folklore scholar called the Joon County temple fair as "the Chinese people's carnival". "In 2004, the ancient temple fair in the first month of the lunar calendar of Joon County was included in the pilot project of China's national folk culture protection project; in 2007, the "Joon County Ancient Temple Fair" and "Joon County Folk Fireworks" were included in the Intangible Cultural Heritage List of Henan Province, and at the same time were recognized as one of the most important folk cultural assets in Henan Province. In 2007, "Joon County Ancient Temple Festival" and "Joon County Folk Fireworks" were listed in the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Henan Province, and at the same time, they were honored as Henan Folklore Classic.

3. February 2 is the "Dragon Head Raising Festival" or "Green Dragon Festival". On this day, women in rural Henan generally do not move the scissors, do not do needlework, for fear of moving the knife cut the dragon body. In this festival, people go to the fields to pick wild vegetables, dumplings, fried pancakes, fried soybeans, fried bacon, steamed jujube buns, to improve the life of the festival has become an important content.

4, Begging for coincidence festival, Xinxiang, Henan, the custom of begging for coincidence in the evening of the sixth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, the local unmarried girl seven people into a group, each person into the face of things, for the weaver to prepare offerings.

5, Ghost Festival, the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar, is the Festival of the Middle Ages, folk commonly known as: "Ghost Festival". Farmers in the Central Plains also call this day "animal festival", this day there are many activities to worship the plow ox.

6, Zaosi, the lunar calendar, the twenty-third, is "Zaosi Festival". Henan Lunar New Year's Day 23 custom, every Lunar New Year's Day 23, the Central Plains cities and towns cracking and blazing the first round of New Year's firecrackers. Townspeople are busy purchasing food for the stove, such as sugar and fire. In Henan Province, the typical food for Zaozao is Zao sugar. Stove sugar, is a kind of sticky mouth and teeth of malt sugar. The reason for offering zaosugar is to stick to the mouth of the master zaos. In Henan, people regard Zao Festival as a reunion festival second only to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

7, Fried Noodle Festival, the sixth day of June, the folk said "Fried Noodle Festival", "look forward to the summer festival", "girl festival", etc., rural households, in the first to the sixth of June between, are to put the girl married to the first day of the month. In the period from the first to the sixth day of June, every household in the countryside has to take the married girl home and send her back to her in-laws after hospitality. The saying is: "June 6, please aunt." "June 6, hanging hoe hook, called the big aunt called the little aunt."