What day is the first day of the Majiang Festival?
Shangma Fair: Every third and eighth day of the lunar calendar.
The Shangma Fair in Chengyang, Qingdao is held on the third or eighth day of each lunar calendar. Going to the market has become a long-standing local custom. According to information: Shangma Fair was called Magozhuang Fair in ancient times. It was first established during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, more than 300 years ago. It has been passed down to this day and has been rated as an intangible cultural heritage at the Chengyang District level.
The market in Shangma is large and has many stalls. The specialty product is seafood. Seafood has become an important market for small seafood in Jiaozhou Bay. Shangma Market is all-inclusive and has the characteristics of traditional folk customs in northern China. The commodities traded mainly include seafood, rice and noodles, pork, poultry and eggs, vegetables and fruits, daily necessities, local products, and various snacks.
Historically, the sounds of opera singers, storytellers, performers, and musical instruments blended together during the fair; northern leather goods, southern Guangdong goods, Jiangsu and Zhejiang bamboo ware, Boshan porcelain, Weixian yellow smoke, Jiaoxian felt shoes, Laoshan Medicinal materials have traditional folk characteristics.
The Year of the Ox is approaching. Although affected by the epidemic, Laba is also the Great Cold Season. The cold weather still does not stop the people from wishing for a good year and a good life. Most of them People consciously wear masks when entering the market. Vendors put abundant New Year's goods on their stalls early in the morning. Thousands of stalls have a dazzling array of New Year's goods and sufficient supply.
The vendors are actively shouting and hawking, and greeting customers enthusiastically; the steamy and smoky areas of the market are stalls for fried crispy pork, stir-fried chestnuts, fried melon seeds, and fried peanuts, creating a New Year atmosphere. It feels more and more intense.