The Best Place for Henan Spring Festival Tourism in 2020

It's getting closer and closer to the Spring Festival. Are you excited? There are many activities in Henan, and many scenic spots are no exception, and many activities are also held. Today, let's learn about some interesting places in Henan during the Spring Festival!

Songshan (Spring Festival Blessing/Folk Performance/Skiing) During the Spring Festival every year, Songshan Scenic Area will hold related Spring Festival activities, such as Songshan Spring Festival Traditional Culture Festival, Songshan Scenic Area Folk Performance, Folk Gala, Songshan World Cultural Heritage "Intangible Cultural Heritage" Folk Performance, and Songshan Shaolin Scenic Area Spring Festival Blessing Tour, Zhongyue Temple Blessing, Dengfeng unique folk cultural elements, etc.

You can also go skiing at Songshan Ski Resort, which is located at Luya Waterfall, Taishi Mountain, Zhongyue. In addition to skiing, there is also a snow recreation area of nearly 1000 square meters, including skiing, flying saucer, U-ball and other ice and snow projects.

Kaifeng Qingming Shangheyuan (Folk Culture Festival) During the Spring Festival every year, Kaifeng Qingming Shangheyuan will hold the annual Qingming Shangheyuan Folk Culture Festival, which lasts until the 15th day of the first month.

During the Spring Festival, the scenic spot will gather the national folk performing arts elites in Qingyuan to stage the most folk drama for tourists, including drumming, walking on stilts, dragon dancing, lion dancing, elbow pavilion, small Henan opera, donkey running, small-backed old man, land boat, clam dancing, big-headed dancing, pole vaulting sedan chair, bamboo horse, car, old four pack and so on, and perform dozens of performances every day.

In addition, there is a large-scale folk group parade to create a richer and more distinctive folk year for tourists, which can effectively meet the needs of tourists.

Baiyun Mountain (Spring Festival Blessing Temple Fair/Skiing/Playing with Snow/Ice Sculpture/Rime) During the Spring Festival every year, Baiyun Mountain Scenic Area will hold the annual "Baiyun Mountain Spring Festival Blessing Temple Fair". During the temple fair, visitors will go to Baiyun Mountain in Luoyang to pray, taste rich snacks from all over the country, watch the blessing ceremony of Yuhuang Pavilion, the top of the Central Plains, and watch wonderful folk skills and folk performances.

Spring Festival is suitable. Due to the high altitude and relatively low temperature, there is still a chance to enjoy ice sculptures, ice hangings, snow plumes and snow songs in the scenic area. There is also Baiyun Mountain Ice and Snow World in the scenic spot. There is a ski area with moderate slope and soft snow, which is suitable for different types of skiers. There is also a snow playing area in snow sculpture at the top of the mountain, where you can make a snowman, have a snowball fight, watch ice sculptures, shoot rimes and enjoy the ice hanging.

Central Plains Giant Buddha (Visit Temple Fair/Enjoy Folk Customs/Worship Buddha/Hit Buddha's Foot/Hit Buddha's Bell/Soak in Hot Springs) Every Spring Festival, the Central Plains Giant Buddha Scenic Area will hold the annual "Central Plains Giant Buddha Spring Festival Temple Fair", when there will be activities such as folk customs, food, entertainment, specialties and operas in western Henan.

There are Yaoshan Fuquan in the scenic spot, and the health soup with the theme of "Buddhism and Zen" has gathered more than 80 kinds of hot spring Tang Chi with different functions and rich health care characteristics. During the Spring Festival, you can not only visit temple fairs, enjoy folk customs, worship Buddha, cram for Buddha's feet, hit auspicious bells, enjoy peace and fragrance, celebrate the New Year happily, but also soak in hot springs.

The annual Dayuan Lantern Festival of Long Ting Park will be held in Kaifeng. Although the Lantern Festival is usually the "best time" to watch lanterns, the Lantern Festival in Kaifeng is usually lit in advance on the eve of the Spring Festival (around the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month) and lasts for about one month.

Long Ting Park in Kaifeng is the main place of Lantern Festival in Song Dynasty. Beautiful lanterns include water lanterns, dragon lanterns, poem lanterns, world peace lanterns, lanterns celebrating the sky, plum blossom lanterns, begonia lanterns, peacock lanterns and lion lanterns. It makes people linger, and presents a beautiful visual feast for the citizens of the ancient city and foreign tourists.

Besides the lanterns, there are delicious Kaifeng snacks, and all kinds of snacks will be available! Other locations of the Shangyuan Lantern Festival in Kaifeng include Tian Bo Yangfu and Yu He in the Great Song Dynasty.

Greening Expo, Zhengzhou (Zhongyuan Temple Fair/Zhongyuan Lantern Festival/Spring Festival Flower Show) Every year from the first day to the sixteenth day of the first month of the Spring Festival, Zhengzhou will hold the "Zhongyuan Cultural Temple Fair", visit temple fairs and watch colorful folk performances. From the eve of the Spring Festival to March, there are also wonderful "Central Plains Lantern Festival" activities, such as visiting the Central Plains temple fair, watching bright lantern exhibitions, enjoying folk customs, watching lanterns, etc., which have become tourist business cards of Henan folk customs during the Spring Festival.

During the Spring Festival, there is also the "Spring Blossom Exhibition". During the Spring Festival, tens of thousands of lilies are in full bloom in the 4,000-square-meter intelligent greenhouse in Virescence Expo, Zhengzhou. The flowers meet, and the flowers are colorful and fragrant, giving you a different Spring Festival.

During the Spring Festival, there are some delicious snacks from all over Henan, such as Kaifeng Chicken Blood Soup, Xuchang Hometown Tofu, Jiyuan Eggs, Luoyang Soup, etc., which will evoke your deep memories.

Yaoshan (climbing to welcome the new year/praying for the Spring Festival/enjoying the rime/skiing) Many people choose to climb to welcome the new year and climb the peak bravely and step by step. Because of its high altitude, glaciers and cliffs are the most attractive landscapes in Yaoshan in winter.

Saturated water vapor in the air condenses and forms a unique rime. The rime is crystal clear and spectacular. During the Spring Festival, you can also enjoy the wonders of rime, and you can also go to Yuhuang Peak in Yaoshan to watch the sunrise and welcome the first ray of sunshine in the New Year. At sunrise in Yaoshan, the sky is full of red clouds, like a sea of clouds boiling. During the Spring Festival, you can also go skiing in the ski resort of Tianlongchi Scenic Area in Yaoshan.

During the Spring Festival every year, the annual "Old Leshan New Year Lantern Festival" will be held in the Old Leshan Scenic Area until the 15th day of the first month. There will be a large-scale traditional cultural lantern show, folk acrobatics, exotic performances and Millennium "Iron Flower" activities, such as flower viewing lanterns, praying and wishing, watching night scenes and tasting.

There is also a hot spring resort hotel in the scenic area. After enjoying lanterns and watching folk customs, you can also come here to soak in hot springs, which is also a good choice.

Mangdang Mountain Tourist Area (Spring Festival Temple Fair) During the Spring Festival every year, Mangdang Mountain Scenic Area will hold the Mangdang Mountain Folk Temple Fair, which lasts from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month. Visit temple fairs, enjoy folk customs and experience traditional customs for the New Year. Dragon dance, iron flower beating and silver fire welcoming the new year.

Mangdang Mountain Folk Temple Fair began in Tang Dynasty and flourished in Song Dynasty. It has a history of 1000 years. It is a thousand-year-old temple fair with local characteristics, which integrates culture, religion, folklore, commerce, tourism and food within 300 kilometers of the border between Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. During the temple fair, the number of people reached more than 654.38 million every day, attracting pilgrims, businessmen and tourists from Fiona Fang hundreds of miles away.

At the Spring Festival Temple Fair, you can taste various special snacks, such as bean curd, cotton candy, maltose, sugar-coated haws, fried stinky tofu, mutton skewers, champion milk tea, roasted squid, osmanthus lotus root and so on.

Huangdi's Hometown (Spring Festival Prayer/Ancestor Naji/Folk Lantern/Folk Performance) Huangdi's Hometown is located in Xuanyuan Road, xinzheng city, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. It is a national 4A-level tourist attraction, a patriotic education base of China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and a national intangible cultural heritage "ancestor worship ceremony in the hometown of Huangdi". Scenic spots include Chinese surname square, front area of Xuanyuan Temple, Xuanyuan Temple, ancestor worship square, Xuanyuan Mountain and Huangdi Memorial Hall.

Every Spring Festival, the hometown of the Yellow Emperor will hold Spring Festival activities related to praying for the good fortune of worshipping ancestors, such as the activities of worshipping ancestors on New Year's Eve, national intangible cultural heritage experience activities, traditional folk lanterns in scenic spots, folk performances and so on.

Do you like the activities held by these scenic spots? These activities are very exciting and rich. If you don't know where to travel this Spring Festival, go to these places!