Ask for the local customs, customs and habits of Hangzhou

1. Lake Viewing Festival

The Lake Viewing Festival is traditionally held on August 18th, which is the birthday of the Tide God. People often go to Yanguan to watch the tide, and it has become more prosperous in modern times. Before the Revolution of 1911, local officials prepared three incense sticks every day to worship the Tide God in the Grand View Pavilion next to the Zhenhai Tower. The imperial court sometimes sent officials to offer sacrifices at the Tanah Lot Temple.

2. Silkworm-rolling flowers

Silkworm-rolling flowers (rolled, pronounced "ga" in dialect) are celebrated every year during the Qingming Festival in Hanshan, Shanlian, Deqing County and Xinshi, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Temple fairs are the custom of worshiping silkworms, and many of them include folk art performances, which are grand in scale. Every year, it starts from the Qingming Festival (commonly known as the "Touqing Festival") and ends on the third day of the Qingming Festival (commonly known as the "Three Qingming Festival").

3. Kite flying

The first month and February are kite flying seasons. As the proverb goes: "Harriers fly in the first month, harriers fly in February, and only harriers fly in March." After the founding of the People's Republic of China, flying harriers Kites became a popular entertainment activity.

4. Dongqian Lake Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival in Dongqian Lake started from the Qianhu Temple Fair. In the old days, there were two festivals in Qianhu on the 11th and 16th day of the ninth lunar month. Lively temple fair. First, he painted the "Bodhisattva's Patrol" in the Ship Hall, and then went to the Tashan Temple to "celebrate the birthday" of the god Baogai.

At that time, all villages at the foot of the temple will participate in the guild. On the day of the guild meeting, there are bronze gun teams, salute teams, pavilions, stilts, sand boats, etc. as the forerunners. Behind the "patrolling" Bodhisattvas are the makeup teams "relieving prisoners". The guild activities are lively and interesting, and the most exciting part is the dragon boat race.

5. Matchmaking

Hangzhou folk weddings basically follow the customs of Southern Song Dynasty weddings. In the old days, the marriage between men and women was very feudal, and families above average would ask a matchmaker to arrange a match, which was called "cross-dressing marriage." After the man and woman ask for divination and get a good fortune, the man's family will choose a day to prepare gifts and invite the woman's family. The two parents will meet each other, which is called a "blind date". If the girl likes it, she will put a gold hairpin in her crown and bun, which is called "inserting hairpin". If you are not satisfied, you will be given two pieces of colored satin, which is called "suppressing the surprise".