On the Folk Customs of Spring Festival in Sichuan

Qiang nationality is one of the ethnic groups with a long history in the big family of Chinese nation. Now he mainly lives in Maoxian, Wenchuan, Lixian and Songpan in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.

The Qiang people's New Year is celebrated on the first day of the tenth lunar month every year, usually lasting 3-5 days, and in some villages it lasts until the tenth day of October. According to the folk custom, in the year of Qiang, gods should also be sacrificed, such as the gods of heaven, mountains and landlords (village gods). The whole village will have a reunion dinner, drink Zasa and dance Sharon until everyone is happy. The whole ceremony was presided over by Xu, while the miscellaneous wine was opened by the respected elders in the village. During the festival, relatives and friends can congratulate each other and welcome each other.

Sichuan Hakka Spring Festival custom

The continuous migration of Hakkas makes them more attached to their native land. The nostalgia for the landscapes, customs and customs of their hometown has enabled them to unite closely and overcome difficulties and hardships again and again. Traditional customs have become a powerful link to maintain Hakka people. Among the Hakkas in Sichuan, the traditional customs and habits of Hakkas have been maintained for two or three hundred years.

Hakka people attach great importance to the Lunar New Year. Every household hangs colored lights, sticks door gods, and sticks auspicious words on granaries and poultry and livestock pens to show the bumper harvest in the coming year. Conditional Hakka towns and villages,1-will have a lantern dance in February. The types of lanterns are dragon lanterns, lion lanterns and clam lanterns, which are the custom of colored lanterns handed down by Hakka people in their original places. In addition, there will be a large-scale celebration-dragon dance, which can be divided into colorful dragons, fire dragons, water dragons, disjointed dragons and Shangchuan dragons. Among them, Shangchuanlong is the most distinctive. Shangchuanlong was brought to western Sichuan by Jiangxi immigrant Liu in the early Qing Dynasty. Liu people hold dragon dances every year to celebrate the New Year and pray for good weather. Shangchuanlong is huge and magnificent. Dancing is operated by 30 to 50 people, and the faucet weighs 30 to 50 kilograms. It is very skillful in playing with dragons, and there are many ways.

People in Chengdu don't eat during the New Year, because "rice" and "sin" are homonyms. In order to avoid taboos, they eat glutinous rice balls or dried noodles to pray for family reunion and longevity. Liu Ge and other places will celebrate the "off-year" on the seventh day of the first month. Besides worshipping God and ancestors, they will also have a family reunion dinner. Chengdu people visit Du Fu Caotang in the western suburbs every day. On the first day of the Lunar New Year in Changshou County, nine candles are lit outside the door, which are called "nine-level candles" to respect heaven and earth.

Sichuanese like to watch "lights" during the Spring Festival. The land of Sichuan is brightly lit.

On this side, the Zigong Lantern Festival with the theme of "exotic customs" only exudes "foreign flavor"; On the other hand, the traditional Chengdu Lantern Festival is changing with the charming ribbons for the 35th time.

In Jianyang in central Sichuan, Jiangyou in northern Sichuan and Yibin in southern Sichuan, it is also the second time to light three New Year lanterns with different styles. Sichuan in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Sheep is brightly lit.

Lantern Festival is a traditional folk cultural activity of the Chinese nation. During the Spring Festival holiday, many places have the tradition of hanging lanterns and holding lantern festivals. For lively and peaceful Sichuanese, Lantern Festival is indispensable, and it has also become an indispensable "new year's goods" for Sichuanese. Therefore, Sichuan Lantern Festival has a long history and a high level, and is known as "Yi Deng in the world" and "the first of Chinese Lantern Festival". In particular, Chengdu Lantern Festival and Zigong Lantern Festival, with their majestic, ingenious conception, exquisite craftsmanship and rich local customs, have become the outstanding local lantern festivals in China.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Sheep, Zigong Lantern Festival, which has a history of nearly a thousand years, sang "foreign opera" with the theme of "exotic customs" and took the lead in lighting lamps in Shu. On the Lantern Festival, the classic story fragments and scenic spots of Greece, Rome and Egypt, such as the Battle of Troy, the pyramids of Egypt and Swan Lake, were vividly interpreted by the traditional lantern art in China. The Lantern Festival set up 30 funny projects of foreign cartoon characters and animals, including Robin Hood, Spider-Man and Snoopy, which made people laugh again and again. In addition to the strong "foreign flavor", Zigong Lantern Festival also introduced the northern ice lantern for the first time, combining the northern ice lantern and the southern colored lantern at the same time and space, attracting countless people who look fresh.

In Chengdu, the provincial capital, this year's Spring Festival Lantern Festival is the 35th. On the first night of the first month of the first month, the lights were officially lit up, shining brightly and shining on the sleepless New Year's Eve in Rongcheng. In the cultural park, water, mountains, buildings and trees are covered with beautiful lights, and the viewers are like crucian carp; Outside the garden, the old piano platform was renovated only last year. At night, the love story of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun's "Looking for the Phoenix" was interpreted, with bright lights and crowds.

Chengdu Lantern Festival in the Year of the Sheep is full of the spirit of "sheep". Among the 42 groups of large and medium-sized lamps and 6 groups of archway lamps, the group of lamps showing the celebration of the Year of the Sheep accounts for a large proportion. Looking at the lights at the west gate and east gate is a strong breath of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Sheep. Ximen's "Three Yang Kai Tai, Feng Dan Chao Yang", the auspicious atmosphere is coming; At the east gate, three sheep stand on the gate of the Lantern Festival in semi-relief, beautifully decorated, and watching the Lantern Festival is like entering the "Ruyi Gate" of the Year of the Sheep. People watching the lights are in groups of three and five, smiling and taking pictures in front of the lights. As usual, after watching the lights, the delicious Chengdu people will never forget to go to the snack show for a meal. What kind of mutton skewers, fat intestines are delicious, and food stalls are full of people.

"Deng Hua looked up at the stars." The "Water Lantern Festival" held for the first time in Sancha Lake, Jianyang, was full of waves and beautiful scenery, accompanied by the unique sound of paddles with lights. On the first day of the first month of the Year of the Sheep, the Lantern Festival was officially unveiled on the water connecting Sancha Lake, six islands and three peninsulas, covering an area of two square kilometers. Its route of viewing lanterns is six kilometers long, and its vision is the highest in this year's Sichuan Lantern Festival. More than 200 tourist boats are on standby at any time. On the Lantern Festival, China's tallest independent light group "Rose in the sky" (80 meters) makes people look up and admire.

In Taibai Park, jiangyou city, the hometown of poet Li Bai, a large lantern festival of Jiangyou Electric Power is being staged. The lantern festival was designed and produced by 150 Zigong lantern artists, and the scale and quantity were the highest in Jiangyou over the years. Yibin, the only national scenic spot with bamboo forest landscape in Zhuhai, southern Sichuan, held a large-scale lantern festival for the first time this Spring Festival to attract tourists. Bamboo Sea Lantern Festival in southern Sichuan highlights the characteristics of bamboo sea. Almost all lanterns are made of bamboo, which is unique. Among them, large lantern groups such as "Bamboo Weaving Oriental Dragon" and "Shake Bamboo Maiden" are even more unique. The vast bamboo sea has a unique charm against the light.