What is the biggest highlight of Zhouqu Lantern Festival?

Zhouqu County is a cultural county of couplets in China, and it is the "Jiangnan Couplet Poetry Society in Tibet", which belongs to a mass art group voluntarily formed by lovers of couplets. Zhouqu County, located in the southeast of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, has a long history and mild climate, and has the reputation of "Yangzhou in a Different Kind", "Zhouqu in the South of Tibet" and Lantern Festival couplets.

Local custom

Flower-picking Festival is a traditional Tibetan festival in Apollo Township, Zhouqu County.

Romantic and affectionate flower picking festival

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

The festival begins in the early morning of May 4th, and the real festival is held on May 5th.

Zhouqu Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival are traditional festivals in China. Celebrating this festival, the folk customs in different places are similar, but Zhouqu County in Gansu Province has its own style and characteristics, and is known as "Little Yangzhou" and "Sai Yangzhou". It is said that Zhouqu Lantern Festival flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties and couplets flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The activity is mainly composed of the Song Peng Couplet Congress, the 15th Temple Fair, the 17th and 19th Black Festival and "Welcome Grandma".