Qingdao New Year’s Eve Guide

Temple fairs, ice and snow seasons, concerts, lantern festivals, exhibitions, ice and snow games, dramas and folk customs. Come to Qingdao during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rat, eat, drink and have fun along the way. During the 2020 Friendly Shandong Lunar New Year, the island city has prepared a wealth of cultural tourism activities. Visitors can feel the joy, peace, excitement and celebration of the island city.

New Year’s Eve Tour: Two days of ice, snow and hot springs, where you can learn, pick and smile.

Invite friends to go to the ice and snow hot springs to experience the feeling of ice and fire. This winter will not be wasted! The colder the person, the more beautiful the person is. Don’t miss these great places for skiing and hot spring bathing in Qingdao.

Theme 1: Happy Ice and Snow Journey

The "Meet the Winter Olympics" Qingdao Happy Ice and Snow Season kicked off at the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center and will last until February 21!

The happy ice and snow season includes ice sports, ice and snow parks, ice performance competitions and other colorful themed activities. With an outdoor ice rink of more than 700 square meters, playing on the ice and snow on the sea is the most enjoyable experience this winter. There are also lovely ice mounds and melting snow on site, which satisfy the crowd’s multi-level needs for Winter Olympic culture and ice and snow sports.

In the West Coast New District, Cangma Mountain Ski Resort has officially opened its doors to welcome guests.

The 10,000-square-meter ski resort has become a kingdom of ice and snow. 2,500 sets of ski equipment can accommodate 3,000 people skiing and playing in the snow at the same time. There are beginner, intermediate, and advanced slides to choose from, as well as a "kid fun" snowboarding slide, which is a great place for children. After exercising, you can also go to Sunac Aduo Town Danxi Hot Spring in the same resort.

When it comes to skiing, in addition to several large ski resorts in the city, there are also many good places in the suburbs. Bijie Ski Resort is located in Pingdu Wenwang Mountain Scenic Area. It has a designed snowmaking area of ??about 50,000 square meters and can receive 3,000 skiers a day. The children's snow park can receive 1,000 skiers a day. The ski resort is equipped with more than 1,000 sets of imported ski equipment, more than 500 sets of professional protective equipment, snow flying saucers, snow banana boats, snow yo-yos, snow walks, snow cans, snowmobiles, snow strollers, and snow excavations. machines, snow shovels, large snow sculptures, and more. You can feel all the fun that ice and snow can bring.

Theme 2: Warm Hot Spring Journey

Why Jimo Hot Spring is outstanding is because it comes from natural ocean hot springs. Green Tang Pavilion, Qingdao Tourist Hot Spring Resort Hotel, and Badong Hot Spring Town each have their own characteristics.

Among them, China Travel Service (Qingdao) Haiquan Bay Resort Hotel is Asia's first-class large-scale comprehensive tourism and leisure resort hotel, integrating luxury conference resort hotel, ocean hot spring center, performing arts theater and outlet commercial street. Great leisure and vacation elements integrated into one. This Spring Festival, Ocean Spring Bay Resort will launch a special New Year "Rat" trip, with a variety of packages to choose from.

The Mangrove Resort Hotel in the West Coast New District offers the first Bliss Soup in northern China. Bliss Yu has a variety of different functions, including three salt pot baths, two Sparex, a snow room, massage, spa, Japanese bar, and more. Enjoy the mountains and sea in the hot springs and the natural beauty of Lingshan Bay.

Theme: Winter Vacation Study Tour

Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. Winter vacation is here, and it is a good choice for your children to take a technology research trip. Hisense Science Discovery Center, Haier World Home Appliances Museum, Qingdao Beer Hall, Qingdao Forest Wildlife World and other scenic spots have launched special research activities to educate and entertain, but cleverly entertain and educate, giving children the opportunity to increase their knowledge and broaden their horizons vision.

Hisense Scientific Exploration Center launched the "Love Qilu, Fame in China" incentive program for remote tourists in the province. Residents outside Qingdao, Shandong Province, can enjoy a discount of up to 58 yuan when purchasing tickets with their personal identity certificate and recent personal train tickets, bus tickets, and highway crossing fees (warm reminder: The Discovery Center will be closed during the Spring Festival from January 20th to 27th. Open on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year). There are 13,000 square meters of innovative experience space, 500 exhibits, and more than 200 interactive exhibitions that focus on scientific exploration for the first time in China. Haier World Home Appliances Museum will open its doors on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

From January 27th to February 9th, the New Year “Wave Pendulum” Carnival will be launched, launching creative market, rainbow rooftop love pavilion, amusement park, tide interaction, ocean ball wave technology and other activities to allow children to immerse themselves in the joy of the New Year. , feel the charm of technology.

Tsingtao Beer Museum launches Hop-themed immersive exhibition. The exhibition layout is divided into six exhibition areas, namely exploring the source of flowers, knowing the secrets of flowers, competing for beauty, renovating patterns, letting a hundred flowers bloom, and fairy space. There are highlights in the region and surprises at every step. You can enjoy flowers and learn new knowledge!

From January 25th to February 9th, Qingdao Forest Wildlife World carried out the "Bless the Rats and Happy New Year" activity and launched a Spring Festival themed activity of "travel, play, eat and buy".

From January 13th to February 13th, Qingdao Binhai University World Museum of Animal Nature and Ecology held a one-day trip around the world to measure the earth with your feet. Use your body to feel the world; use your heart to drive the lens, and every stop in your life journey will be beautiful, warm, sad or happy.

The Former Site Museum of the Governor's Palace in Qingdao, Germany will launch six major exhibitions and seven exciting festivals. The exhibition contents include: Shining Footprints 3354 Mao Zedong and Qingdao special exhibition, Maritime Silk Road and Qingdao special exhibition, four-story restoration exhibition, architectural art and Eastern and Western cultural dialogue exhibition, and the soul-stirring Chinese beauty and poetic New Year Tuanfan of the Governor's Mansion.

Theme: Fresh Picking Journey

At the New Year’s Eve dinner, big fish and meat are indispensable on the table. After the break, the whole family goes to the farm to pick strawberries and eat fresh fruits and vegetables, which can cleanse the greasy stomach and make them fresh and refreshing.

Moon Green Four Seasons Farm, located in the ravine base of Laoshan District, mainly promotes organic strawberries and integrates leisure, entertainment and planting. There are 1-point seed identification area, leisure area, strawberry picking area, orchard picking area, tea garden picking area, parent-child zoo, green field fun area (DIY with free-range eggs), etc. You can easily experience the wild culture and feel the embrace of clear water and green mountains.

The Jiulongshan Ecological Picking Garden in Jiaozhou provides picking of strawberries, mulberries, tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, beans and other fruits and vegetables from New Year's Day to May. Strawberry varieties such as Tianbao and Coffee in the park are grown in a standardized ecological manner, using soybean base fertilizer, natural pollination by bees, and artificial dilution of flowers and fruits without adding any hormones.

Dingsheng Manor is located 300 meters west of Li Jiacun, Zhangjialou Town, West Coast New District. There is a farm banquet in Dingsheng Manor, which mainly features dishes such as air-dried chicken, freshwater fish, and vegetables, and breeds ponies, camels, black swans and other animals. Beauty, the Spring Festival is here

Strawberry varieties such as Snow White, Sweet Treasure and so on are ripe and very suitable for picking, which will last until mid-May.

In addition, the West Coast Strawberry Commune is located southeast of the Nanxinzhuang Village Committee, Dachang Town, West Coast New District, the Fengbaoshan Four Seasons Picking Garden in the north of Lengjia Xiaozhuang, Baoshan Town, and the Flower World and Garden in the west of Shangtuan Village, Zhangjialou. Xinmao Farm is a good place for picking tours.

New Year's Eve: Temple fairs gather to celebrate the New Year, and songs, dances and dramas celebrate the New Year

When it comes to the New Year, the most exciting thing is visiting temple fairs. There are all kinds of good-looking, fun and delicious things. Choose an auspicious day to go shopping and eat! Before and after the Spring Festival, the island city also hosts hundreds of activities in the categories of lantern festivals, theatrical performances, radio, film and television, etc. across Qingdao’s urban and rural areas to accompany citizens and tourists to celebrate the New Year!

Theme 1: Visiting the Lantern Festival and Temple Fair

For urban residents and foreign tourists, the closest thing is the "Lantern Shadow" that will be held at Huiquan Square on the New Year's Day. "Wonderland·Chinese Year" 2020, the first Lantern Festival in Qingdao, China, lasts from the first to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

The entire lantern festival integrates shopping and leisure, special catering, cultural and sports entertainment, and sightseeing, creating a lantern festival for the first time, a themed lantern exhibition, a piece of ingenuity, a folk custom intangible cultural heritage exhibition, a new year's light, snacks and delicacies The four major sections of the exhibition, Rat You Have a Play·Dream Theater, as well as the Internet celebrity wall of thousands of lanterns, Hanfu themed event day, Lantern Festival photography SHOW, "Glimpse of Lanterns" lantern riddle contest, the God of Wealth's customized lucky bag, and online and offline various A wonderful interaction.

Also before the 16th day of the first lunar month, Qingdao Fantawild Dream Kingdom will hold the New Year Lantern Festival for the second consecutive year, allowing tourists to experience the fun of traditional New Year customs in the dreamy sea of ??lanterns, and also play with high technology Themed amusement projects, enjoy romantic fireworks with family and friends, and enter the new year with joy and reunion.

In addition, after the first day of the first lunar month, in the West Coast New District, the 2020 Third New Year Folk Culture Festival and Traditional Lantern Festival will be held at the Shandong Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Experience Center. The New Year Market, Intangible Cultural Heritage Night Banquet, God of Wealth Parade, etc. of the first Guochao New Temple Fair in Qingdao Mangrove Forest gather together folk customs and intangible cultural heritage performances from the north and south. The theme activities held at the Qingdao Zangmashan Temple Fair are unique, such as "temple calculation", "temple" fun, exquisite "temple", unique "temple" ingenuity, and unique "temple".

The Dagu River Resort in Jiaozhou is also very lively. From the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month to the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Banqiao Town launches a lantern show that brings together food, modern entertainment, and folk activities. On the Guhe Pagoda stage in the Nanhu Scenic Area, there will be a food carnival and a large-scale laser water curtain movie to welcome the Spring Festival from the 28th to the 16th of the twelfth lunar month.

Inherit culture and enjoy Laixi. From the first day of the first lunar month to the twenty-second of the first lunar month, the Laixi Lantern Carnival will be held at the Laixi Sports Center. With the long history and culture of Laixi City as the background, "New Year Lantern Appreciation" as the main form, you can feel the strong festive cultural atmosphere.

In addition to watching the lanterns, attending the market is also a good way to search for childhood New Year memories. Licun Fair, Laoshan Wanggezhuang Fair, West Coast Boli Fair, Chengyang Shangma Fair, Jiaozhou Jiaodong Mawan Fair, the Chinese New Year should be so lively and joyful, and should be so original and down-to-earth.

Theme 2: Watching performances and listening to music

In the first month of the year, Chinese New Year is celebrated, and dramas and Peking operas are performed. After New Year's Eve this year, the three major troupes of Qingdao Performing Arts Group - Municipal Theater, Municipal Peking Opera Theater, and Municipal Song and Dance Theater will join hands for the first time this year and will be held at the Sifang Theater on January 26th and 27th, and on January 29th and 30th. At the Licang Theater, four New Era Blessings·Qingdao Performing Arts Group Year of the Rat Spring Festival galas were launched.

The Qingdao Municipal Theater Theater’s new children’s drama “The Arrogant Princess” will not only be performed at the Qinghua Small Theater and Sifang Theater, but will also debut at the Jiaozhou Theater; the Municipal Peking Opera Theater’s Lantern Festival Peking Opera Gala will be held at Opening on time at the Sifang Theater on February 7, the 2020 New Year Peking Opera will land at the Licang Theater on February 9;

At the Dream Theater where the Municipal Song and Dance Theater is located, two crosstalk sketch evenings will be held on January 28 Debuting on the 29th, the Song and Dance Theater's children's play "I Am Oh Haha" will be performed at the Licang Theater on February 1st and 2nd, and the theater's New Year ethnic concert will be held at the Fantasy Theater on February 6th and 7th. Two performances in the theater.

On the West Coast, the newly upgraded "Qing Xiu" incorporates story elements with a more Chinese flavor and is presented with innovative art forms and gorgeous stage effects at the "Qing Xiu" show on Xingguang Island, Qingdao Oriental Movie Capital.

Qingdao Grand Theater will launch a series of performances during the New Year's Eve Party, including the citizen concert "Tear Down the Piano" on February 14, the children's play "From Leonardo to Picasso" on February 15, The ballet "The Nutcracker" on the 17th.

The City Library’s New Year series of activities are more creative than in previous years. A series of movie viewing activities with the theme of "New Year Movies to Welcome the New Year" will last from January 25, the first day of the Lunar New Year, to January 30, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. The traditional lantern viewing project of the Lantern Festival has also been transformed into the fashion of hand-made lanterns and English lantern riddles.

In various performance projects this year, "intangible cultural heritage" has become a keyword.

On January 28, the traditional drama "Dragon and Phoenix Noodles" at the Jimo District Liuqiang Art Center will appear on the stage of the Qingdao Grand Theater for the first time;

Welcome hosted by the Jiaozhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism As a cultural activity to benefit the people during the New Year, special performances of two major "intangible cultural heritage" projects of the Jiaozhou Maoqiang Yangko Art Inheritance and Protection Center will be launched on January 29; the Liuqiang "Family Tradition" performed by the Jimo District Liuqiang Art Center will be Performed at the Jimo District Cultural Center Theater on January 31st; 2020 Qingdao West Coast New District - Celebrating New Year Culture and Benefiting the People Maoqiang Performance, an innovative work from the West Coast New District Maoqiang Art Inheritance Center, will be held from February 1st to 7th Performed in Binhai Street and Zhuhai Street.

From February 7th to 9th, three "intangible cultural heritage" themed performances will be staged on the center stage of Haiyun Square in Shibei District, including Mao Opera, Liu Opera special performances, and a puppet show.

New Year greetings: Go to ancient temples to welcome blessings and auspiciousness, and climb high to pray on famous mountains

As the Spring Festival approaches, it is a time for people to welcome blessings and auspiciousness and pray for peace. Daocheng Many cultural and tourism units have launched blessing activities with the theme of "Praying for Blessings and Reunion". Citizens who love traditional culture can experience traditional customs, climb high and look far away, and pray for blessings and welcome the new year.

There is a popular saying in Qingdao area - "No matter how difficult it is, you can't leave Mount Laoshan", which best expresses the homesickness of the vast number of tourists. During the Chinese New Year, you can go to Mount Laoshan with your family to see the most beautiful winter scenery of Mount Laoshan. In the mountains and ridges, let’s recall the warm scenes of our childhood together.

Fahai Temple, a thousand-year-old temple in Chengyang District, and Maogong Mountain, a natural wonder, are holy places for prayer. You can not only experience human history, welcome the dawn of the new year, and experience red culture and natural ecology.

From the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, "Praying blessings at the four o'clock in Langyata at the beginning of the year - 2020 China Langyatai New Year's Prayer Festival" will be held in Langyatai Scenic Area. During the Spring Festival, there will be "drumming to get rid of the old year and Langya to welcome the new year" festival drum experience, as well as activities such as praying plaques, praying belts, praying for blessings, writing books together, and driving cars on the track. We will also set up a state of etiquette, Hanfu parade, blessings from heavenly officials, etc. Large-scale performance activities. During the Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival lantern making, lantern riddles and other experiences will also be added.

Also from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Ciyun Temple in the Nanhu Scenic Area of ??Dagu River Resort in Jiaozhou opened the "Gengzi". "And the Maitreya Christmas Dharma Assembly, the God of Wealth Association and the Lantern Festival Lantern Prayer Assembly, praying for world peace, national peace and prosperity, good weather, elimination of disasters, long-lasting righteousness, and harmony among all.

There are also Taiping Palace and Zhanshan Temple , Tianhou Temple, Mingzhen Temple, Huayan Temple, Qingyun Temple, Bodhi Temple, Dazhu Mountain, etc. are all places for Spring Festival blessings.

New Year's Eve banquet: There are many star hotels and the food street is very popular.

After a hard and busy year, many people hope to stay away from the kitchen during the Chinese New Year and enjoy a relaxing and comfortable reunion dinner with their families in the hotel. Major hotels in Qingdao are gearing up to improve their dishes and services. We are fully prepared to serve a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner to the public.

In Shinan, the "Star-rated Kitchens Come to People's Dining Tables" event is underway, with high-star hotels and brand hotels approaching people to showcase their capabilities. The delicious pastries are both delicious and delicious, and the exquisite table display on site brings visual and taste enjoyment to everyone. At the same time, various star and brand hotels in the jurisdiction include Huanghai Hotel, Shanfu Hotel, Shangri-La, and Regent Hotel. More than 70 kinds of rich New Year's Eve packages have been launched for citizens to choose from.

In Chengyang, Qingdao Kuaitong International Hotel launched the "Joyful Reunion Banquet", "Exhibition of Ambition Banquet" and "Wealth and Auspicious Banquet". Three different-themed New Year’s Eve dinners are offered at favorable prices and imply good luck. Qingdao Jingyuan Holiday Hotel, Qingdao Fusheng Hotel, Qingdao Qiulin Hotel, etc. have also launched New Year’s Eve dinners and reunion banquets at different prices to meet the needs of tourists to enjoy family reunions outside.

In the West Coast New District, the Wyndham Grand Hotel on the Beach launches a New Year’s special family reunion buffet dinner, a Tang Dynasty fortune opening banquet, food and leisure discounts, and the whole family can get together to make dumplings, Cut window grilles, celebrate the New Year, or draw lucky red envelopes, etc. The Qingdao Golden Beach Hilton Hotel launches a value-for-money New Year's Eve dinner package, which includes auspicious New Year's colorful fish, a bottle of high-end imported red wine, New Year's rice cakes, New Year's mascots, etc. Value for money. The Spring Festival Reunion Banquet at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in the Oriental Film City is carefully customized to present 4 types of Spring Festival family reunion banquets. In addition to signature dishes, delicacies, seafood, seasonal vegetables, and delicacies are all available, with a combination of meat and vegetables. .

In addition, various food districts such as Pichaiyuan and Yunxiao Road in Daocheng have launched New Year’s custom catering products at different prices and flavors. Citizens and tourists can go to a number of “check-in” places to celebrate New Year’s delicacies. , have a special New Year’s Eve feast

New Year’s Eve gifts: special seafood products are popular, and cultural and creative products are very popular

This year’s Qingdao New Year’s Eve Party takes the lead in launching New Year’s Eve gift products. From traditional New Year gifts to Internet celebrity New Year gifts, from old taste to new feeling, you can visit your elders, relatives and friends with a polite and Qingdao New Year flavor.

Now that we have entered the twelfth lunar month, it will be the New Year this Friday. If you haven’t bought new year’s goods yet, hurry up and go shopping in supermarkets and shopping malls!

Marine food New Year’s gift is “the most Qingdao”: When it comes to Qingdao’s New Year’s gift, the most distinctive Qingdao gift is definitely marine food. For example, the coastal "Laozhang" squid, which is made with ancient techniques and has thick meat, few thorns and a soft mouth, is selected from Qingdao's local fresh seafood, and paired with a rich secret soup, which is a perfect blend of numbing, spicy, fresh and fragrant, making it Qingdao's most famous squid. Representative landmark product.

The "Yuyao" spicy small seafood that is ready to eat out of the can is plump, golden in color and shaped like a hook. It is dry on the surface and tender on the inside, and tastes chewy. , salty and unique sweet sun-dried fish, nutritious dried sea cucumbers, etc. have become the main products of this year’s New Year’s gifts.

With the rise of the internet celebrity economy, Qingdao’s New Year’s greetings also have its own “Internet celebrity specialties”, which include selected extracts of Hedyotis diffusa and Laoshan Hedyotis water, which can be called a treasure of health drinks. There are countless fans around the world; the Liuting pig's trotters with a history of more than 150 years and the Qingdao calcium milk biscuits that became popular in the 1990s in the "Quick Replenishment Province" in the north and south of the 20th century have tied up the taste memories of generations of people in Qingdao; celebrities The high-quality Wanggezhuangda steamed buns are not only the standard for New Year's gifts in star-rated hotels, but also the favorite bite of ordinary people during the New Year; the fat and thin, crispy and delicious Zhengzhuang Zhizha has also become an Internet celebrity's New Year's greeting this year Gifts, deeply loved by many handsome men and beautiful women;

The mainstay of New Year’s gifts is full of alcohol: Tsingtao beer has a long history, great reputation, good taste and many flavors. Almost all gift-givers will bundle a box of Tsingtao beer with these two The craft beer that emerged in 2007 is very popular in the market for its characteristics of no additives, mellow body, pleasant color, and fine and rich foam; in the cold winter, when the body is cold, Jimo old wine has the effect of relaxing muscles, activating blood, and nourishing qi and nourishing the mind. Popular New Year gifts; in addition, "Langyatai" liquor has the characteristics of rich cellar aroma, sweetness, clean mouthfeel, and long aftertaste, and "Zhanqiao" Baiqian with stories, etc. Related Q&A: How to register Haiyun Tank? Please help. Please be more detailed. What kind of tank is it? Is it World of Tanks? Or another game