Introduction to Yongkang Folk Custom

Yongkang dialect is a dialect of Wu dialect, which belongs to the golden voice of Wu dialect and retains its voiced sound.

2. Map of Nine Lions

In Yongkang, every Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a unique lion dance performance will be held. This activity is called "Nine Lions Dance" because of its unique props and huge lineup. "Nine Lions" has distinctive national, folk and regional characteristics, and has high artistic taste and influence.

3. Eighteen butterflies

In the traditional "eighteen butterflies", eighteen girls play butterflies with colorful butterfly wing props, and the other two girls play the goddess of flowers, and butterflies dance with the goddess of flowers. When performing, walk and sing, but dance and don't sing. Under the protection of music drums, the flower god dances his wings, shakes the ribbon around his waist, interweaves with butterflies, and organizes various pictures by arranging, walking and hoarding.

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Yongkang has a beautiful legend of the Yellow Emperor casting a tripod, a traditional skill of casting swords in the Spring and Autumn Period, a sword in the Han Dynasty and a bronze spear in the Tang Dynasty, beautiful rural scenery and simple rural customs. It is a famous "hardware capital" and tourist attraction at home and abroad. Yongkang Yan Fang is one of the most developed and distinctive areas of Danxia landform in China.

Fangyan Mountain is 400 meters high and Fiona Fang is about 3000 meters high. The flat ground is abrupt and the walls are cut. The area of the peak and the foot of the mountain is almost the same, and it looks like a towering square column, hence the name Fangyan. The mountains near Fangyan are steep cliffs, solitary peaks, squares or circles, and the peaks are steep. The color is red or purple, which is bright and full of weather.

And majestic, often thousands or even tens of thousands of square meters of cliff stone surface, vertical and horizontal in the festive, overlapping folds, but also magnificent to an incredible extent.

Reference source; Baidu encyclopedia-Yongkang