Sichuan folk custom

Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in China, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This festival lasts from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month. Before the Spring Festival, most urban and rural areas began to prepare new year's goods, killing pigs, sheep and rabbits. Make bacon, buy food and get new clothes. During the Spring Festival, everyone dressed up, hung New Year pictures, posted Spring Festival couplets, had a family reunion dinner on the 30th, and began to visit relatives' homes to pay homage to their ancestors on the second and third days of the Lunar New Year.

Lantern Festival: At first, it was only held for one night on the fifteenth day of the first month. The longer it lasted, the bigger it became. Chengdu is usually held in Ximen Cultural Park (Qingyang Palace), and the scene is very lively. The lamps on display range from thousands to tens of thousands. In the past, candles were lit in lamps, but now electricity, solar lamps, iodine tungsten lamp, laser, microwave transmission and photoelectric conversion make lamps more fantastic and colorful. There are also cultural programs, food and so on. Due to the long time, the audience reached 700,000 to 800,000.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: In the middle of February of a year, around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar, it is mainly for picnics and picnics; Some are activities such as ancestor worship and grave sweeping. This kind of custom activity is also a common activity in urban and rural areas.

Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. It is said that it was a day 278 years before Gong died. Qu Yuan, a doctor of Chu, gave advice to the king of the country, but he did not listen to slanderers and was exiled. Qu Yuan died in the Miluo River on this day. In memory of this patriotic poet, people threw glutinous rice balls and realgar wine into the river to avoid being killed. Eating zongzi, realgar wine, rowing dragon boats and other activities. Now, with its geographical environment and tourism resources, Leshan City has expanded the dragon boat activities into an international dragon boat festival for foreign economic and trade negotiations, culture and sports, and tourism activities, which is also very lively.

Mid-Autumn Festival: On the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, it is mainly about offering sacrifices, worshipping, enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes. China people attach great importance to family reunion, and invite family members or relatives to eat cakes and enjoy the moon on this day. If relatives scattered in other places can't reunite, they can also make long-distance contact and wish their families peace.

Double Ninth Festival: The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival. Invite friends to climb mountains, or go to the garden, enjoy chrysanthemums, drink chrysanthemum wine, eat double ninth cake and other activities.

Torch Festival of Yi people: Torch Festival is the largest traditional festival of Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan. The time is June 24th of the lunar calendar every year. Every family drinks, eats meat and kills animals to worship their ancestors. People put on new clothes and carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Men take part in bullfighting, herding sheep, raising chickens, horse racing and wrestling. Women sing, play strings and play Qin Yue. Swim the flashlight around the house at night; On the third night, they traveled around Shan Ye in groups with torches, and then they gathered in one place to light bonfires, burn torches, drink, sing and dance until the end of the morning.

Kangding Mountain Transfer Meeting: On the eighth day of April every year, people gather in Kangding from all directions. Tents stretch on the lawn at the top of the mountain, and there are many ethnic sports activities such as horse racing and wrestling during the day. In the evening, we lit a bonfire, drank on the floor and sang and danced all night.

Huanglong Temple Fair: Every year on June 16th of the lunar calendar, hundreds of people from Tibetan, Qiang, Hui and Han nationalities gather in Huanglong Temple in Fiona Fang. The tent was camped on the open space in front of the temple, and the fire was like a star. Ministers led the crowd into a big circle, dancing around, singing to each other and answering questions.

Sichuan Opera: It is a popular local opera in Sichuan and one of the older operas. Because of its long history, distinctive local color, rich flavor of life and broad mass base, it occupies a certain position on the stage of China drama and is a wonderful flower in the literary garden.

Sichuan Tea Culture The history of Sichuan people using tea has been recorded for more than 3000 years. Drinking tea is beneficial and harmless to the human body. Because tea contains more than 30 kinds of aromatic substances, it can dissolve fat and reduce cholesterol content. The number of teahouses in Sichuan is the largest in China. There are teahouses everywhere in urban and rural areas, which has formed a major local feature that people like to drink tea. Teahouse is an important social occasion outside leisure. In order to understand the market and negotiate business, some teahouses have increased entertainment and art programs, playing drums, singing voiceless songs, playing money boards and other folk art programs, billboards, video programs and so on.