Customs of Anping Town

According to the custom of Anping Town, Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Winter Solstice Festival are the four major festivals in a year, and the rest are New Year's Day, People's Moon Festival, Lantern Festival, Zhengpin Festival, Zhejing Festival, Shangsi Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Bath Buddha Festival, early May, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Lunar New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. Traditional folk arts and crafts include Niuniang Opera, Dragon Dance and Lion Dance. Generally perform on festivals or festive occasions.

Niuniang Opera, also known as Xiniu Opera, Xidi Opera and Changzhuang Opera, is a local opera with strong local characteristics in Cenxi City. Niuniang Opera has a duet system, with a few vocals and simple gongs and drums such as "tea picking tune", "Spring Cattle tune" and "New Year tune". Niuniang Opera is a kind of drama full of talking, singing and playing, which is very entertaining and deeply loved by local farmers.

Lantern Festival is held on the 10th day of the first month of each year, and newborn boys after the full moon will hang lanterns on the 10th day of the next lunar month to celebrate. On the sixteenth day of the first month, please "light the lamp".

On April 8, people take a bath on this day, and people of the same clan also hold a "small church sacrifice"

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Ghost Festival, folk clans ask monks to put a fire in the temple, and every household burns incense under the eaves and beside the water tank to make a "July and a half meal", and burns gold and silver paper to offer sacrifices to the gods, give alms and send ghosts.

Lunar New Year's Eve, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, is the day to send the kitchen god. Every family sacrificed chickens, placed offerings, lit incense sticks, set off firecrackers, burned "kitchen books" and sent them to the kitchen god, asking him to say more good things and bring back good luck.

Festivals of folk beliefs include Yingzi Valley, Baishiqiao, Huachao, Ge Xianweng's birthday, June 6 and June 12, rich food, offering sacrifices to women in public beds, offering sacrifices to rice, and observing the New Year at the altar.

Other festivals include opening the new year, People's Day, lighting lanterns, grabbing fireworks, March 3, April 8, and the first day of May, Bodhisattva crossing the river, playing gold water, fasting rice, the Central Plains, Lunar New Year's Eve, offering sacrifices to stoves, knocking on doors, and removing dust.