Where is Nanchong Frog Festival?

Nanchong Flying Festival was held in Xichong Valley, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province (Jialing District, Shunqing District, Xichong County and some towns in nanbu county).

Frog Festival has changed from a traditional festival to a modern folk festival, from a regional festival to an alternative carnival activity in urban and rural areas on the premise of maintaining unique regional customs and strong local feelings. It is a "local product" of Nanchong folk culture. "The epidemic will eventually pass, and the frog festival, a folk festival deeply rooted in northern Sichuan, will definitely come back.

Because it is on the fourteenth day of the first month, the Frog Festival also has a name: "Fourteenth Festival". Nowadays, in Xingxing Town, Shunqing District, the frog festival in Sanhui Town and Jishan Township, Jialing District is the most lively. Some towns and villages in Pengxi and Shehong, Suining City, which are adjacent to Nanchong, also have frog festival folk activities.

Three contents of frog festival activities

The first item is to make and send away the "frog lamp". Every household makes "frog lanterns" in advance. A few days before the Frog Festival, local people began to make frog lanterns.

The second item is to worship the dragon god and pray that the dragon god will bless the good weather and good harvests in the coming year.

The third item is that children shake tender bamboo and pray for happiness. Before or after the frog lamp came, the children shook the tender bamboo at home and sang "Fourteen nights, shaking the tender bamboo." Tender bamboo is tall, so am I, and I am as tall as tender bamboo; Fourteen nights, shaking the tender bamboo, tender bamboo grows, I grow, I grow with tender bamboo. "