What festivals are there in Shenzhen?

What are the traditional festivals and customs in Shenzhen? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao's sharing!

1, Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first lunar month

Introduction: Shenzhen people call the Spring Festival "Chinese New Year", and Shenzhen locals call it "Happy New Year, Happy New Year, Busy New Year". They are enjoying the excitement and joy of the New Year in their busy schedule. With the arrival of the Spring Festival, the local people's custom activities lasted for more than 20 days from Laba to the end of the Lantern Festival. Including preparing for farming, encouraging farming, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, praying for abundance, eating meat and drinking, entertaining and celebrating the Spring Festival, etc., the local people's Spring Festival is lively and rich. Shenzhen locals pay attention to the most important festival at the beginning of the new year, from what they eat and wear to what they use, and pay attention to the word "new". Women in Shenzhen will get up early on this day and go to the wellhead and the river to pick up a can of water to get the vitality of new water. But now there is running water at home, but some people still go to Wutongshan, Yang Taishan and other mountainous areas to get water, and go home to make tea and cook in the morning. Guangfu people in Futian, Nantou, Xixiang, Shajing, Songgang and Gong Ming used to raise money to buy the biggest guns and set them off in the village open space in the early hours of New Year's Day. Whoever can catch the spear head in the middle and prevent it from exploding is an able person and a hero in the village, applauded by the villagers and rewarded by the elders.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Introduction: On holidays, Baoan people like to dance lions to celebrate. In addition to Fuyong's lion dance, Songgang Street in Baoan District has always had the custom of dancing the seven-star lion, and there have also been many lion dancers. "Songgang Seven-Star Lion Dance" is listed in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, which has strong and distinctive Lingnan local characteristics. Futian's "cauldron dish" is a Lantern Festival custom that spreads in Xiasha Village, Shi Xia, Xinzhou, Shazui and other 15 urban villages in Futian District, Shenzhen. On the Lantern Festival, fellow villagers, compatriots in Hong Kong, overseas villagers and community builders share a reunion "cauldron" to unite family ties and nostalgia; Nanshan locals like to eat tea; On the ninth day of the first lunar month, it is the lighting day of Zhang Ancestral Hall in Xiangxi Village, Nanhu Street, Luohu District. At this time, the Zhang family, who added a man to the West Village last year, will bring a newborn boy to the ancestral temple to light a lamp. Longgang people celebrate the Lantern Festival and enjoy Hakka Lantern Festival lanterns. While enjoying the lanterns, besides the traditional riddles, there are also traditional folk skills, such as kneading dough, Tang Hua, paper cutting and straw weaving. It can not only help older friends to find their childhood memories, but also let children see the endangered folk skills.

3. Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Introduction: The older generation of Shenzhen people will start preparing dumplings when celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival on the first and second days of May. First, cut the leaves of Zongzi, remove thorns, soak them, cut them, dry them, then soak them in glutinous rice, glutinous rice, mung beans, red beans, lotus seeds, mushrooms and shrimps to prepare salted egg yolk, pork belly and other materials, wrap them in glutinous rice, glutinous rice mung beans or red beans, put lotus seeds, mushrooms, dried shrimps, roasted meat and ham as fillings, and tie them with aquatic plants. Of course, there are also many Cantonese people who make sweet zongzi, soak plant ash in water, then precipitate and filter ash, soak glutinous rice in "grey water", wrap a few red dates, and steam them with sugar or syrup. People in Shenzhen call the dragon boat race "Dragon Boat". The most famous places are Songgang, Yantian and South Australia. Shenzhen people also have the custom of "soaking in dragon boat water", because the dragon boat symbolizes auspiciousness, and the water crossed by the dragon boat becomes dragon boat water. When the dragon boat race reached the end, people on the shore jumped into the water and infiltrated themselves.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Time: April 5, Gregorian calendar.

Introduction: Tomb-Sweeping Day, a native of Shenzhen, is the same as the traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day custom, but pays attention to "offering sacrifices to mountains" and "Qingming cuisine". In the Qingming custom in Shenzhen, "worshipping mountains" has a complete set of procedures, which are still continuing today. However, when Shenzhen people worship the mountain today, all other sacrifices are left, only roast suckling pigs and apples are brought back, and the roast suckling pigs and apples that have worshipped the mountain are distributed to brothers and family members, following the past custom: "dividing pork." It is said that the roast suckling pig that eats the worship mountain will be blessed by its ancestors, and all aspects will be smooth and safe. On the way, everyone also ate one or two candies to worship the mountains, reminiscing about the care their loved ones gave to future generations before their death, and cherishing the happy life in their own homes now. The local people worship the mountains on sunny days and take this opportunity to go for an outing. The ancients avoided the "dirty air" in this "rainy season", and today's people also take advantage of the beautiful air in Tomb-Sweeping Day in spring to go for an outing and breathe fresh air. In this festival, the local people in Shenzhen don't forget to use local materials, and the food specially prepared for Tomb-Sweeping Day is also quite distinctive. This kind of food can be described by others as "vulgar and elegant", and the more common ones are "chicken manure vine _", "wormwood _" and "bamboo leaves _".

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar.

Introduction: Shenzhen is a diversified city with different customs in Hakka, Chaoshan, Hunan and Hubei. Generally speaking, it is mainly to have a reunion dinner, enjoy lanterns, eat moon cakes and enjoy the moon.

6. Double Ninth Festival

Time: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month

Introduction: Shenzhen people pay more attention to two customs in the Double Ninth Festival, one is to worship mountains in autumn and the other is to climb mountains. According to the Records of Baoan County, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the first sun, the second sun on September 19th and the third sun on September 29th. Chongyang is an autumn festival in Baoan, mainly for the ancestors of the whole family, and the expenses are paid by the family to compensate the land income. Patriarchs and senior elders can sit in sedan chairs, and the rest will follow them to the cemetery on foot. Rich sacrifices, grand ceremony and exquisite rules. The ceremony was presided over by the patriarch or senior elders, and everyone stood in front of the cemetery hall, offering three sacrifices and kowtowing. After the sacrifice, bring the sacrifice back to the ancestral temple to worship the ancestors' spirits, and then divide the "diced meat" so that everyone can get a share of pork.

7. Shenzhen Nanshan Litchi Festival

Time: June-July every year.

Venue: Nanshan District, Shenzhen

Guide: Shenzhen citizens have such a traditional custom that whenever cicadas are singing and litchi is fragrant, they will invite friends and relatives at home and abroad to taste it in the litchi garden, that is, pick it and spit it out. Not only tasted the unique delicacy of fresh litchi, but also enjoyed the beautiful scenery of Li Xiang, so as to communicate feelings, enhance friendship, exchange information and increase knowledge. Litchi Festival is developed according to this traditional custom. Now, as a festival in Shenzhen, Litchi Festival is held from June 28th to July 8th every year. During the festival, various forms of economic, trade and cultural friendship activities will be held with the theme of "Litchi" to show the great achievements made by the people of Shenzhen and the prosperity of the SAR at home and abroad.

8. Shenzhen Gold Coast Tourism Festival

Time: July-August every year.

Venue: Yantian District, Shenzhen

Introduction: The Gold Coast Tourism Festival takes marine culture as the core, integrates many marine elements, and conveys and expresses the characteristics of passion, romance, leisure and fashion through music, sports and commercial exhibitions, further enriching and excavating the tourism connotation of the Gold Coast, and promoting the full utilization and in-depth development of coastal resources.

9. Shenzhen International Tourism and Culture Festival

Time: June 10 to February 12 every year.

Location: Shenzhen

Introduction: The International Tourism Culture Festival aims to further publicize Shenzhen's distinctive tourism image, enhance Shenzhen's popularity and influence at home and abroad, create a rich tourism culture atmosphere, enhance Shenzhen's tourism culture taste and enhance Shenzhen's tourism attraction. At the same time, the holding of the International Tourism Culture Festival will also play a positive role in promoting tourism exchanges and cooperation in the "Greater Pearl River Delta" and "Pan-Pearl River Delta" regions and promoting the all-round development of regional economy and society.

10, Longgang "Dragon Dance Town" Art Festival

Time: every year 165438+ 10 to 65438+February.

Venue: Longgang District, Shenzhen

Introduction: Shenzhen Longgang, named after the dragon, is a famous dragon city at home and abroad. Hakkas in this area have always regarded dragons as mascots, and they have the traditional habit of dancing dragons, lions and unicorns on holidays or festive days, which adds a festive atmosphere to festivals. As a folk art activity, dragon dance has a history of 300 years, with strong local color, and the extended "dragon culture" has also been greatly developed. Parks, squares and sculptures with the theme of dragons emerge one after another. Longgang District has built a dragon-themed tourist attraction in China with a total investment of 1 100 million yuan. The Dragon Dance Team has often visited and performed abroad, and has been to the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and other countries and regions, and won the first "Dragon Dance Classic" award in China.

1 1, Shenzhen International Tourism Expo

Time: 65438+ every February.

Venue: Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center

Introduction: Shenzhen International Tourism Expo aims to promote the investment of Chinese and foreign tourism projects, the development of tourism industry and the promotion and cooperation of tourism products. It will not only provide enterprises with opportunities to display superior tourism resources products at home and abroad, but also provide a platform for people in the industry to communicate, cooperate and negotiate through a series of innovative and targeted high-end dialogues, forums, promotion meetings, project investment and financing matchmaking meetings, special seminars and hot sales of tourism products, and also let citizens in Shenzhen and surrounding provinces and cities know more about domestic and foreign tourism intuitively. During the exhibition, there are authoritative forums, industry awards, new products and attractions promotion meetings, seminars and lectures.

12, Shajing Golden Oyster Festival

Time: 65438+ every February.

Venue: Baoan District, Shenzhen

Introduction: Shajing Golden Oyster Festival promotes the prosperity of tourism culture industry and the development of modern service industry by launching nine wonderful activities, such as "Oyster Gate Feast" food festival, Oyster culture photo exhibition, Oyster culture photo contest and one-day ecological tour of Oyster Town.

13, Window of the World Ice and Snow Festival

Time: from 65438+February of each year to 65438+1October of the following year.

Venue: Window of the World, Nanshan District, Shenzhen

Introduction: Even in winter, the sunshine in Shenzhen is still bright and bright. For Shenzhen people in the south, Wan Li's icy northland is always desirable. In order to let more Shenzhen people enjoy the charm of northern winter without going out, Window of the World held the Winter Carnival, which spanned Christmas and New Year's Day and included all the items that can be enjoyed and played in the ice and snow. At that time, colorful activities such as the splendid ice sculpture snow sculpture, the carnival party of ice and snow dreams, the New Year's carnival parade and the New Year's Eve party will be staged with passion. It has the most wonderful and magnificent ice and snow wonderland in South China and is the most relaxed and joyful ice and snow carnival in winter.

14, Happy Coast Lantern Festival

Time: 65438+ from February every year to February next year.

Venue: Happy Coast, Nanshan District, Shenzhen

Introduction; As a must-see place for Shenzhen people to punch in before and after the Spring Festival, the Happy Lantern Festival, with the theme of "Tell the story of China well, inherit Chinese culture, and have a happy and peaceful year", has carefully created ten colorful and interesting theme scenic spots. There are not only more than 60 groups of large-scale creative lanterns that integrate traditional and technological elements, but also interactive games such as parent-child beaches, fun trains for children, cool VR games and special food streets to welcome the general public.

15, Shenzhen Animation Lantern Festival

Time: 65438+ from February to March each year.

Venue: Coconut Forest Beach, Happy Coast, Shenzhen

Introduction: The "Shenzhen Animation Lantern Festival" supported by the Propaganda Department of Shenzhen Municipal Committee and Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism has become an important cultural brand in Shenzhen and has become the creative cultural life and ecology of the whole city. The "Shenzhen Animation Lantern Festival" successfully passed the selection of Shenzhen Creative December Organizing Committee with its unique creativity, rich forms and colorful contents, and was officially listed as one of the creative December series activities. As the first large-scale theme lantern festival in Shenzhen, Shenzhen Animation Lantern Festival perfectly combines traditional lanterns with new elements such as fashion, science and technology, animation and so on, giving it a brand-new connotation. The super-shocking giant lights in the park are colorful, which makes people feel like they are in the ocean of lanterns and the world of fairy tales.