What are the traditional folk cultures in Henan?

There are some folk customs in Henan, such as offering sacrifices to gods, lion dancing, Huiji paper-cutting, Lantern Festival riddles, picking wild vegetables and wrapping jiaozi in the dragon head festival. In short, a kitchen god should be sent during the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Local people will go to the market to buy candy, and at night they will go to worship the kitchen god. After the new year, the flavor of the year will get stronger and stronger. You will start cleaning the stove, cleaning the house, buying all kinds of new year's goods and so on.

Xiaoxiang village with traditional ethnic characteristics is a cultural and artistic village named by Henan Provincial Department of Culture. It is a famous hometown of lion dance. Xiaoxiang lion dance has a long history and superb skills. He has participated in many important festivals and competitions in provinces, cities and counties, and all of them have returned with favorable comments. The little lion dance was born in the folk, innovated in the folk and developed in the folk. It is a wonderful work of folk art cultivated in this fertile cultural soil of Luzhuang.

The main style of paper-cutting art in Huiji District is festive, warm and auspicious. Its colors are mainly red, green and colorful, and it is most suitable for dressing up for Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and weddings, and also for embroidered tiger hats, lark shoes, flower bellies, pillows and skirts. Its skills continue and are passed down from generation to generation. For thousands of years, elders have taught their younger generations and sisters have learned from each other.