What are the holiday customs in Shanghai?

1, Shanghai Spring Festival: Shanghainese like to set off thousands of rings and "Gao Sheng", while children mostly set off some fun fireworks such as "Night Pearl" and "Scud". I used to stand on the balcony. As soon as the "Night Pearl" is lit, colorful paintballs are sprayed out, which is the children's favorite. Every new year, there are accidents in which the night pearl burns the clothes on the opposite balcony, and later it is less and less. Setting off firecrackers is generally concentrated at zero point, and there is also zero point to meet the god of wealth on the fifth day. Generally speaking, there are many more days to meet the god of wealth than the Chinese New Year.

2. Shanghai Lantern Festival: The customs of Shanghai Lantern Festival include dancing dragons and lions, hanging lanterns in the field, stringing lanterns, walking on the third bridge and carrying three girls. That night, deep in the streets and lanes inside and outside Shanghai, children turned down the rabbit lights, while older children held up the small red lights, shining like meteors, some mysterious, like dreams! The poem says: "Mistaking the Yaochi is not true, the flowers and willows in the garden are timely and new. Guests gather in the breeze, half spring and half spring. " "Ten-mile bead curtains don't roll, and the lamp watcher looks at the lamp watcher."

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Shanghai: The main activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Shanghai are grave sweeping and hiking, and nearly 10 million people travel around Tomb-Sweeping Day every year. Due to the reform and opening up, cemeteries have flourished, and related sites are mainly distributed in Suzhou and Jiaxing in other provinces. Therefore, the number of people going to the above areas is more than one million, which often causes traffic congestion in the province for several days before and after Qingming. In addition, the Youth League is a seasonal snack in Jiangnan. Its main body is glutinous rice flour, mixed with green wormwood (grass head juice) to make green cake balls, which are usually red bean paste or sesame seeds. Keep the habit of cold food when eating. For Shanghainese, the Youth League is an indispensable offering for Tomb-Sweeping Day to worship his ancestors.

4. Shanghai Dragon Boat Festival: Shanghai is a traditional water town in the south of the Yangtze River, so water sports are almost indispensable during the Dragon Boat Festival. Some people even decorate boats with colorful flags, make them beautiful, and then shake them on the water. There are people singing and duets on board. Finally, let's judge which ship is decorated best and who sings best.

Shanghainese call it sachet, also called sachet, sachet and purse. They are made of five-color silk threads or rags. It is filled with spices (prepared from Chinese herbal medicines such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Scutellariae Radix, Herba Paicao, Rhizoma Kaempferiae, Gan Song and Rhizoma Kaempferiae). They are worn on the chest and smell delicious. In addition to sachets, many Shanghainese hung small net bags crocheted with glass ribbons on their chests when they were young, which just contained an egg wrapped in colorful silk thread or painted with colors, which also meant to ward off evil spirits and seek happiness.

5. Shanghai Mid-Autumn Festival: "Osmanthus fragrans on August 15th". On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, it is another beautiful thing for Shanghainese to look up at osmanthus flowers and drink osmanthus honey wine in the middle of the month. Osmanthus fragrans is not only an ornamental flower and aromatic tree species, but also has edible value. In addition, Shanghainese like to eat glutinous rice and osmanthus wine.

The customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in Shanghai include offering sacrifices to the moon and burning incense. Traveling on Mid-Autumn Festival night to enjoy the moon, Shanghainese call it "walking on the moon". A night outing with women is called "stepping on the moon". Lujiashi Bridge outside Xiaodongmen, Shanghai, the reflection of the bright moon rippling in the water under the bridge forms a wonderful contrast with the bright moon in the sky. Therefore, tourists are weaving in the Mid-Autumn Festival night, scrambling to watch. This "Liang Shi jathyapple" is very famous in Shanghai, and it is called one of the "Eight Scenes of Shanghai".