Folk activities with Spring Festival characteristics (video of folk activities with Spring Festival characteristics)

Can you imagine walking into a small mountain village in the cold winter, listening to the warm greetings between the neighbors and enjoying the picture of the food served by strangers? The heart stretches in the carnival, full of long-lost warmth. This feast without asking about the life of the newcomers is the unique custom of "gathering clever meals" in Yangshuxia Village, Huairou.

It has been passed down for more than 18 years, and this custom comes from the legend that birds pecked at grain seeds to save people named Huo and Jin in Yangshuxia village. On the 16th day of the first month, adult women cook meals for the whole village. During this period, needle and thread, copper coins and other things were put into the pot. Those who eat will strive to pray for skillful art and wealth. In addition, the word "Qiao" is a local nickname for birds such as sparrows and tits. Before people eat the clever rice, they should feed the clever rice, that is, feed the sparrow. When people feed birds with rice, they say auspicious words, one is to thank the birds and the other is to pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year. After dinner, people have to walk on the ice, that is, walk on the ice, that is, get rid of all diseases. At this time, there will be troupes and flower parties to add entertainment.

2. Da Shu Hua Show, Yuxian County, Hebei Province:

Before the first month, the streets and alleys in Beijing are flooded with advertisements of Da Shu Hua Show, Yuxian County. The picture of golden flowers flying all over the sky in the dark attracts many tourists every year. Da Shu Hua Show, originally a carnival for the poor, has developed into a gold-lettered business card for Yuxian's first month tourism today.

During the performance, hundreds of kilograms of pig iron were first melted into iron juice in an iron smelting furnace, and the performers used a special spoon to splash the iron juice on the hard and cold brick wall. After the iron juice of more than 1 degrees Celsius burst into ten thousand sparks, just like a leafy canopy, it is called "tree flower". "Tree flowers" are in various forms, and thousands of flowers are rushing. "Fire trees and silver flowers never stop at night", the superb skills and brave spirit of the performers, made the audience excited, applause thundered and cheers resounded.

There is another saying among local people about the origin of Da Shu Hua Show. It is said that there are five kuixing stars on the city gate. In order to make more scholars in the village in the coming year, the villagers melted pig iron into molten iron and hired folk artists to go to Da Shu Hua Show. All the molten iron falls on the five stars, which can show that there are many scholars in the coming year. Therefore, the requirements for artists in Da Shu Hua Show are very high. Not only must they have great strength, but they can lift 6 kilograms of willow spoons with molten iron into the air again and again, and they must also be accurate and beautiful. In fact, no matter what version, they all express a wish to pray.

3. Changshan Drum in Zhengding, Hebei Province:

In Zhengding, where the tourist signboard "Zilong's Hometown" was pounded in the past two years, there was an activity full of "Jin Ge Tie Ma" in the first month, which was the famous "Changshan Drum", which performed like an ancient foot soldier struggling to kill, giving people a spectacular feeling of recreating the ancient battlefield.

Now it belongs to Zhengding, Shijiazhuang City, and is the seat of "Changshan County" in history, so it is called "Changshan War Drum". During the performance, the drummers either stand in a circle, or form a triangle, or line up and knock face to face; Those who beat the cymbals and gongs stand in the middle, or stand on both sides, or are opposite to those who beat the drums. They cooperate tacitly and are superb, sometimes thunderous and earth-shattering; Sometimes like Ma Benteng, invincible; Sometimes it turns sharply, like rain hitting bananas, cheerful and crisp. I saw drummers prancing and jumping, drums and cymbals flying up and down, drumsticks flying, colorful silk dancing, magnificent momentum and beautiful dance, which made people dizzying and uplifting.

4. Lantern Festival in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province:

It is an old tradition in many places to watch lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month, but do you know that the Lantern Festival in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province has a history of two thousand years? Zhuozhou Lantern Festival began in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was named after the "Tonghui Building" located in the middle of the north and south streets of Zhuozhou. It was listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Zhuozhou in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and it was called "Tonghui Lantern Market", which is a traditional cultural activity with a long history.

Today's Lantern Festival is an annual event in Zhuozhou. On the night of Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of each year, all the streets and alleys in Zhuozhou are decorated with lanterns, fire trees are in full bloom, silver flowers are in bloom, and thousands of families burn candles all night.

5. Overhead lanterns in Wuxiang, Changzhi, Shanxi:

There are ferocious lanterns painted on the top of the face-don't be surprised, this strange form of social fire is staged in Wuxiang, Changzhi, Shanxi every January. The name of this activity is just taken from the performance place, so it is called "Wuxiang Dingdeng", and now it has been included in the list of China's intangible cultural heritage.

as for the origin of this activity, it can be traced back to the period of the May 4th Movement. According to the records of Wuxiang county annals, the rulers at that time often raided the tribe where Shile, the later emperor of the post-Zhao Dynasty, was located at night, and treated the captured people as slaves. In order to resist the oppression of the rulers, Schleswig made everyone shave their heads, draw ferocious faces on their faces and back of their heads, and put an oil lamp on their heads. When the officers and men who arrested people saw it, they thought they saw ghosts, and they were terrified and ran away. This characteristic folk custom has gradually spread and been preserved.

Another feature of Wuxiang dome lamp is its unique makeup form-the performer will show a face that is either mighty, ferocious or humorous when facing or facing away from the audience. With the change of rhythm, the top lantern performance formations are mainly "big hall", "nine-curved star" and "snake shedding skin", such as Youlong's pearl play, which seems to be dazzling and winding. The performance footwork is mainly based on the traditional yangko dance, which pays attention to fast-forward and fast-forward, fast-forward and fast-backward, and is called "not pulling the field" by the locals.