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What are the folk customs in Yibin?

1, Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival originated from spring festival. The lamp was originally a torch, and primitive people held the torch up the mountain and went to the river to worship the gods. People communicate with the gods by putting lights on and hanging them.

2. Sacrifice Du Zhu

Sacrificing Du Zhu is a belief custom of Han nationality, which is popular in western Sichuan plain and other places. 1The night of February 23rd is the day to send the "Zaosi Bodhisattva" to heaven. The "kitchen secretary" is also called "kitchen god" and "kitchen king", and the paper horse posted in the kitchen by the people is called "Chef Dong". As the name implies, the kitchen god gradually became a family god who lived with the people day and night after the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

3. Sacrifice silkworms

Silkworm sacrifice belongs to the beliefs and customs of the Han nationality and is popular in the western Sichuan plain. According to legend, Can Cong, the founding emperor of Shu, taught people to raise silkworms and made thousands of gold silkworm heads for the people every year. Whoever wins the gold silkworm House will surely get a bumper harvest in sericulture. After his death, people offered sacrifices to him to show their gratitude.

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Yibin cultural characteristics:

1, wine culture

Yibin has been a multi-ethnic community since ancient times. Relying on the customs and experiences handed down from generation to generation, people of all ethnic groups living here have brewed unique historical wines in different historical periods. There are historical records, such as sake brewed by people in the pre-Qin period, glutinous rice wine brewed by people in the Qin and Han dynasties, and fruit wine brewed by Miao people with wild small red fruits in the Three Kingdoms period.

2. Bamboo culture

Yibin is a city surrounded by green bamboos. The bamboo sea in southern Sichuan, which is famous for crouching tiger, hidden dragon, is the representative of Yibin's "bamboo beauty". The breeze 120 square kilometers, Xu Lai, at first glance, is full of bamboo waves. Huang Tingjian, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, said that the bamboo sea in southern Sichuan is magnificent.