Cultural charm and humanistic tradition of Datong

Cultural charm of Datong: Datong, a city under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Province, is one of the first batch of 24 national historical and cultural cities in China, one of the first batch of 13 larger cities in China, one of the nine ancient capitals in China, a national new energy demonstration city, an excellent tourist city in China, a national garden city, a national double-support model city, a national transportation hub city, a sculpture capital in China and ten sports and leisure cities in China. You can experience beautiful scenery in this city.

The humanistic tradition of Datong is: the fire of prosperity. Every New Year's Eve, every household should build a tower with a big lump of coal in front of the courtyard, which is called Wanghuo, in order to be auspicious and congratulate the prosperity of the whole year. Visiting the Eight Immortals is a unique folk activity in Datong County. All people will gather in temples and Taoist temples to pray for health and peace in the coming year, and hold a culture and art festival to show China's traditional religious culture and beautiful scenery outside the Great Wall. Guangling paper-cutting is one of the three major schools of folk paper-cutting in China. It is unique because of its vivid composition, vivid expression, exquisite knife work, exquisite materials and dyeing, exquisite packaging and production technology, and is known as the unique folk art in China. ..