What are the large-scale activities and customs in various regions of Shandong Province?

Qingdao Sugar Ball Club was held in Haiyun 'an, Qingdao, starting from the 16th day of the first month and lasting 1 week. The main venues are Haiyun Temple, Haiyun Square and Jiahe Road Street Garden.

Haiyun Temple is located in Shibei District of Qingdao, also known as "Dashi Temple". It was built in the late Ming Dynasty. The main hall is dedicated to Master Guanyin, commonly known as "Old Mother Temple". After Qingdao was built, the street in front of the temple was called Haiyun Street, which was once a commercial center extending in all directions.

There are also workers and fishermen around the square, and there are many gods enshrined in Haiyun Temple. Besides Guanyin, there are Guan Gong, Dragon King, Bigan, Luban and Taishang Laojun. In the old days, incense was flourishing, and worshippers were mostly fishermen. Therefore, the 16th day of the first lunar month, the first spring day of the New Year, was designated as a temple fair.

Every temple fair, incense is more prosperous. At the same time, there are many recreational activities in front of and behind the temple, such as singing operas, running donkeys, walking on stilts, and running dry boats. Food and toy vendors also gather together, many of whom are selling candy balls (known as "Sugar-Coated Berry" in Beijing). Sugar balls made of hawthorn, soft jujube, yam and orange are on the market one after another, peddling competition and showing their own characteristics. After a long time, the masses called Haiyun Temple Fair Sugar Ball Club.

2. Weifang kite festival:

Weifang Kite Festival (Sports Meeting) is held in Weifang on the third Saturday of April every year, with more than 30 countries and regions from all over the world participating. It is the earliest large-scale local festival in China and has been recognized by the international community. Since 1984, it has been successfully held for 33 sessions, and its mode of "kite matching, style setting and economic and trade singing" has been widely used for reference all over the country.

Weifang, known as "Weixian County" in ancient times, is also known as "Kite Capital". Its specialties include kites and New Year pictures, which are very famous at home and abroad. Wei county has been a famous city in Beihai since ancient times, with prosperous writing style, continuous technology and prosperous economy.

During the Qianlong period, there was a saying that there was Suzhou in the south and Weixian in the north. The origin of Weifang Kite can be traced back to the great thinker of Lu period, who made the first Weifang International Kite Festival "Wooden Kite". It has a history of more than two thousand years, but it really began to flourish, but it only became popular in the Ming Dynasty.

By the mid-Qing Dynasty, folk artists specializing in kite-making began to appear in Weifang. There are many kite artists making kites by the Bailang River in Wei County, which are novel and beautiful in shape and famous for their high takeoff. Every year, there are folk or official kite competitions, and even many kite vendors and kite artists from other places come here. This is the embryonic form of Weifang Kite Competition, which originated from the Bailanghe Grand Collection in Weifang City.

3. Tianheng Ocean Festival:

Tian Heng Sea Festival is mainly a festival celebrated by fishermen, which originated from the local traditional folk activities in ewald Village, Tian Heng Town. It has a history of more than 500 years.

After careful planning, packaging and promotion by the local government, this ancient festival has developed into a well-known folk festival brand in Shandong and even the whole country. It is also a carnival ceremony fascinated by modern people, attracting countless Chinese and foreign tourists and experts in folklore and economic policy research from all over China every year.

The day before the sacrifice to the sea, fishermen cleaned the Longwang Temple, hung red lanterns, put incense burners, put up sacrificial ceremonies, put up couplets and hung red. At the same time, there is a pine and cypress dragon gate tied to the beach in front of Longwang Temple, with plaques, lanterns and red couplets hanging on it.

Ship owners are busy driving fishing boats with colorful flags to Wanqian Village, with their bows facing the sea, arranging fishing gear and nets neatly, and then anchoring and positioning, waiting for the formal ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sea the next day.

On the day of the sea sacrifice ceremony, fishermen began to repent on the beach in front of Longwang Temple by boat. Bundles of several-meter-high "standing tassels" tied with bamboo poles stand in the wind, and the table is filled with dough-molded sacred insects, peaches, fish, various sweets and snacks. On the red painted low table in front of the table, the black-haired boar held his head high, and red rooster was full of energy.

The fishermen sorted out the yellow paper to be burned, set up incense burners and lifted thousands of red firecrackers into the air.

4. Tai 'an Dongyuehui Temple Fair:

Taiyue Temple Fair began in the late Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and lasted for a long time. This is a China folk cultural activity that integrates religion, folklore, folk art and business activities.

Mount Tai in Taitung is the first of the five mountains and a sacred mountain where Buddhism and Taoism coexist. Dai Temple at the foot of Mount Tai is dedicated to the God of Mount Tai-Dongyue the Great.

According to legend, March 28th in the summer calendar is the birthday of Mount Tai, and emperors of past dynasties held retreat and meditation ceremonies in Dai Temple on this day. Imperial celebrations, Buddhist and Taoist religious activities and people's pilgrimage to the mountains have formed the Dongyue Temple Fair in Daimiao area, with business and entertainment activities as its main content.

During the period of the Republic of China, during the temple fair every year, good men and women came all the way to the mountains to make incense, and the residents in the mountains sold more wax paper sticks, and their business was the most prosperous. There were many beggars along the way.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the temple fair was transformed into a material exchange meeting, which was interrupted during the Cultural Revolution.

1986, Tai 'an resumed Taishan Temple Fair, and the venue was changed to Taishan Ring Road, with Hong Men and Wang Muchi as the center. The new temple fair retains part of the traditional temple fair, enriches the new content and features, integrates tourism, play, food, entertainment, economy and trade, and its scale and influence are expanding year by year.

5. Heze International Peony Fair:

Heze International Peony Fair is an important tourism festival in Heze City, Shandong Province, sponsored by Heze Municipal People's Government. Every flower fair holds a large number of economic, trade and cultural activities.

Since 1992, it has been held in mid-April every year for 20 days. By April 20 17, it has been successfully held for 26 sessions, receiving more than 30 million Chinese and foreign tourists, and more than 570 leaders of central and state ministries and commissions visited Heze.

Heze International Peony Fair is one of the famous peony tourism festivals in China. In recent years, it has been awarded the titles of "Top Ten Flower Festivals in China" and "The Most Influential Brand Exhibition in China", and Heze City has also been awarded the honorary titles of "Excellent Tourism City in China" and "Excellent Festival City in China".

By holding the Peony Fair, the visibility of Heze Peony was not only improved, but also Heze became the "Peony City of China" with a good reputation all over the country, which effectively promoted the construction of new socialist countryside and the all-round development of Heze's economy and society. 2065438+March 2002 Heze was officially named "Peony Capital of China" by China Flower Association.

The purpose of the Flower Festival is to "make friends with flowers, build a cultural platform, sing operas in economy and trade, develop tourism and revitalize the economy", which fully embodies the characteristics of Heze as the "hometown of peony".

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