What are the festival activities during the Spring Festival? What are the festival activities during the Spring Festival?

1. Tree flowering

Before every first lunar month, the streets and alleys of Beijing are filled with advertisements for tree flowering in Yu County, and tree flowering usually takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Held on the 16th and 17th. The tree-playing festival was originally a carnival for the poor. Today, it has become a gold-lettered business card for tourism in Yu County during the first month of the year.

2. Wuxiang ceiling lanterns

With ferocious facial makeup and lanterns on the head, this unique form of social fire is performed every year during the Lantern Festival in the first lunar month in Wuxiang, Changzhi, Shanxi. The name of this event happened to be taken from the performance location, so it was called "Wuxiang Dome Lights". According to the records of Wuxiang County, the rulers at that time often attacked the tribe of Shi Le, the later Emperor of Later Zhao Dynasty, at night. In order to resist the oppression of the rulers, everyone shaved their heads, drew ferocious facial makeup on their faces and backs of their heads, and put a crown on their heads. When the arresting officers and soldiers saw an oil lamp, they thought they saw a ghost. They were so frightened that they ran away to give way. This characteristic folk custom has gradually spread and been preserved.

3. Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a mysterious and ancient religious blessing ceremony that can only be found in Jiaxian County, northern Shaanxi. Among them, Tanjiaping Village is the largest, and every year It is only held on the ninth day of the first lunar month. The specific method of "forgiveness" is to tie a custom-made rope two to three hundred feet long on a cliff around the village, and connect the four forerunners of the year, month, day, and hour with the Taoist legendary figures. The Eight Immortals and an old longevity star riding a crane were lowered in the air along the rope. The four forerunners of the year, month, day and hour were the four immortals riding on the horses.